1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
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East Asia
South Asia
1923 - 2014
1889 - 1964
February 1, 1958
Khrushchev, as well as Suslov and Mikoyan, offer corrections on a message drafted by Bulganin. Khrushchev advocates for the liquidation of NATO, the Baghdad Pact, SEATO, and the Warsaw Agreement, preferring instead to defer to the UN.
January 15, 1959
Record of a conversation between the Secretary of the Communist Party of Denmark and the Polish Embassy in which Comrade Norlund tell of Scandinavia's openness to the Rapacki Plan.
April 1966
Discussion of the upcoming vote for the location of the 1972 Olympic Games, including the possibility of Moscow bidding to host them.
December 16, 1955
This letter from A. G. Rasadi requests a meeting with M. A. Suslov. When Suslov later received him, Rasadi handed over a sealed and classified package.
December 24, 1959
Soviet record of conversation between delegations from the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union and China. They argue over China's policy toward India and toward Taiwan, and assert that China is pursuing a path that will hurt its Communist allies and risk war. Also notes the extent of Mao's personality cult in China.
October 2, 1959
Record of conversation between Nikita Khrushchev and top Chinese Communist Party leaders. Khrushchev blames the Chinese for the border conflict with India and for allowing the Dalai Lama to escape from Tibet. The two sides argue over how the Chinese should have handled these problems, with Mao accusing the Soviet Union of being "time-servers."
April 27, 1978
The CPSU CC Politburo discusses recent negotiations with US Secretary of State Vance regarding Soviet-American relations and Soviet criticism of the Carter administration’s foreign policy and position on strategic weapons.
July 12, 1962
Protocol 41 details a meeting on a group of economic advisers sent to Cuba from the Soviet Union.
February 2, 1967
Mikonis and Sneh [Israeli Communist Kneset (Parliament) Members] were apparently instructed by the Prime Minister’s office to submit a list of 13 questions to the heads of the international department of the Soviet Communist Party. Suslov and Ponemarev responded in a meeting which took place in Moscow saying that the Soviet Union had always acknowledged Israel’s right to exist and had been making strenuous efforts to dissuade its Arab allies from starting a war against it. The two Soviet officials also implicitly endorsed the view that current Israeli Prime Minister, Levy Eshkol, was taking a more moderate and conciliatory line in his relations with Moscow.
September 1960