How the Cold War ended: debating and doing history

What happened : accounting for history Players, programs, and plots Alice in Wonderland : institutions, operators, and political prerogatives "The most dangerous decade in human history" : popular movements and global outcomes Blue chips, bluegrass and national pride : economics, politics, and culture The shadow Cold War How the Cold War ended Appendix of documents. 1. Report from Colonel Kuklinski ('Jack Strong"), September 15, 1981 2. Transcript of Meeting of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, December 10, 1981 3. CPSU Central Committee Information Cable, December 13, 1981 4. Impact of Credit Restrictions on Soviet Trade and the Soviet Economy, May 1982 5. Excerpts Regarding Poland from KGB's 1981 Annual Report, April 13, 1982 6. National Security Decision Directive 32, "U.S. National Security Strategy," May 20, 1982 7. Whence the Threat to Peace, 1982 8. National Security Decision Directive 66, "East-West Economic Relations and Poland-Related Sanctions," November 29, 1982 9. Soviet Strategy to Derail US INF Deployment, February 1983 10. National Security Decision Directive 75, "U.S. Relations with the USSR, " January 17, 1983 11. Ethnic Balance in the Soviet Military in a Decade of Manpower Shortage, April 1983 12. Commentary by Soviet General Staff Chief Marshal Nikolai N. V. Ogarkov, May 9, 1984 13. A Space-Based Anti-Missle System with Directed Energy Weapons: Strategic, Legal and Political Implications, 1984 14. Memorandum of Conversation between President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Camp David, December 22, 1984 15. Memorandum of Conversation Between President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Geneva Summit, November 20, 1985 16. Memorandum of Conversation Between President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Reykjavik Summit, October 11, 1986 17. Memorandum of Conversation Between President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Reykjavik Summit, October 12, 1986 National Intelligence Estimate, "Soviet Policy Toward Eastern Europe under Gorbachev, May 1988 19. Gorbachev's Growing Confrontation with the KGB: A Coming Showdown? June 1988

20. SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software, May 1988

21. Solidarity Memorandum "On Starting the Roundtable Talks," September 4, 1988

22. General Mikhail S. Gorbachev Address to 43rd UN General Assembly Session, December 7, 1988

23. Diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev, December 17, 1988

24. Report of the Bogomolov Commission on the Soviet Union and East-Central Europe, February 1989

25. Memorandum to Alexander Yakovlev from CPSU Central Committee International Department, February 1, 1989

26. The Political Processes in the European Socialist Countries and the Proposals for Our Practical Steps Considering the Situation Which has Arisen in Them, February 24, 1989

27. Record of Conversation between President Mikhail Gorbachev and Prime Minister Miklós Németh of Hungary, March 3, 1989

28. Hungarian Government Agreement on National Roundtable Talks, June 10, 1989

29. Memorandum of Telephone Conversation between Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President George H. W. Bush, October 23, 1989

30. Soviet Record of Conversation between President Mikhail S. Gorachev and Egon Krenz, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) of the German Democratic Republic, November 1, 1989

31. Press Conference with SED Politburo Member Günter Schabowski at East German Press Center, November 9, 1989

32. Verbal Message from Mikhail Gorbachev to Helmut Kohl, November 10, 1989

33. Verbal Message from Mikhail Gorbachev to François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, and George Bush, November 10, 1989

34. Memorandum of Telephone Conversation between Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President George H. W. Bush, November 10, 1989

35. Diary of Anatoly S. Chernyaev, November 10, 1989

36. Record of Telephone Conversation between President Mikhail Gorbachev and Chancellor Helmut Kohl, November 11, 1989

37. Memorandum of Telephone Conversation between Helmut Kohl and President George H.W. Bush, February 13, 1990

38. The Illegal Economy under Gorbachev, Growth and Implications, April 1990

39. Chancellor Helmut Kohl Statement to the German Bundestag on the Occasion of the Parliamentary Vote on Reunification of Germany, August 23, 1990

40 Beyond Perestroika: The Soviet Economy in Crisis, June 1991

41. The Soviet Cauldron, April 25, 1991

42. National Intelligence Estimate, "Implications of Alternative Soviet Futures," June 1991.