Chernyaev
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The Chernyaev Centennial
100th Birthday of Anatoly Sergeyevich marked with latest translated excerpt of his “irreplaceable” diary — the year 1981 ARCHITECT OF “NEW THINKING,” CHAMPION OF GLASNOST, PROLIFIC HISTORIAN, HERO OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR, KEY SOURCE FOR SCHOLARS Continue reading
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NSA: Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1977
The National Security Archive marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 96th birthday today with the publication for the first time in English of his extraordinary diary for 1977, written from inside the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, where he was then a Deputy Director of the International Department. Continue reading
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NSA: Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1973 – Brezhnev Elevated Detente over Class Struggle — to the Dismay of his Politburo Colleagues
Chernyaev, deputy head of the International Department of the Central Committee (and later a key foreign policy aide to Mikhail Gorbachev), continues to marvel at the contradictory and enigmatic person at the pinnacle of the Soviet leadership — General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 