Mikhail Gorbachev
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The US Played Gorbachev for a Fool
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who died this week, was a member of that tribe of politicians who can diagnose a problem but don’t know how to treat it. As he grew up, he couldn’t understand why a nation blessed with extraordinary natural resources and an enviable geographically strategic position had… Continue reading
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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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Inside the Gorbachev-Bush “Partnership” on the First Gulf War 1990
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2020 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev quickly decided that joint action with the United States was the most important course for the USSR in dealing with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait 30 years ago, rather than the long-standing Soviet-Iraq alliance, and built what he explicitly called a “partnership” with the U.S. that… 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
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NSA: The Thatcher-Gorbachev Conversations
Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who passed away this week, built a surprising mutual-admiration relationship with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s — including behind-the-scenes agreement against the reunification of Germany, and profound disagreement about nuclear abolition — according to translated Soviet records of key meetings between the two leaders, posted… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, May 25, 2010: THE DIARY OF ANATOLY CHERNYAEV, 1990
Fifth Installment of Former Top Soviet Adviser’s Journal Available in English for First Time For more information, contact: Svetlana Savranskaya – 202/994-7000 www.nsarchive.org Washington, DC, May 25, 2010 – Today the National Security Archive publishes its fifth installment of the diary of Anatoly Chernyaev, the man behind some of the most momentous transformations in Soviet Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, April 30, 2010 HISTORIC DISSIDENT JOURNAL PUBLISHED ONLINE
Original Russian-Language “Problems of Eastern Europe” Connected Soviet, Eastern and Western Publics New Russia Web Page Features Digitized Soviet Documents On Missile Crisis, Afghanistan, End of Cold War, and Dissidents From National Security Archive Collections English introduction – www.nsarchive.org/rus New Russian-language page – www.nsarchive.org/rus/Index.html Washington, DC, April 30, 2010 – A rare complete series of Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, April 29, 2010: BREAKING DOWN SOVIET MILITARY SECRECY
Previously unpublished documents from inside the Kremlin shed new light on how Soviet and American scientists breached the walls of Soviet military secrecy in the final years of the Cold War… These glasnost tours punctured some of the myths and legends of both sides. They showed that the Reagan administration had exaggerated Soviet capabilities and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 