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1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises

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Leonid Brezhnev, 1974.

Brezhnev, Leonid Il'ich

1906 - 1982

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1980-81 Polish Crisis

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Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich

1931 - 2022

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Andropov, Yuri Vladimirovich

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Andrei Gromyko at the UN, 1981

Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich

1909 - 1989

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June 2, 1953	Speech by Georgii M. Malenkov to a visiting government delegation from the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Malenkov discusses East and West Germany, arguing that failure to unify the two countries will lead to another world war. He argues that the "forced" building of socialism in East Germany is in fact an obstacle to reunification, proposing that a reunification will be possible "only on the basis that Germany will be a bourgeois-democratic republic."
September 10, 1981	Session of the CPSU CC Politburo, 10 September 1981 (excerpt) The Soviet Politburo discusses dissent within Poland and the loss of power of the communist party in Poland.
September 15, 1981	Transcript of Brezhnev's Phone Conversation with Kania, 15 September 1981 Brezhnev worries the Polish Solidarity movement will undermine communist authority in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe.
September 17, 1981	Session of the CPSU CC Politburo, 17 September 1981 (excerpt) Brezhnev informs the Politburo about his conversation with Cde. Kania of Poland on 11 September, 1981. He suggests applying strong pressure to Kania to put down the uprising.
October 29, 1981	Session of the CPSU CC Politburo, 29 October 1981 (excerpt) Soviet Politburo meeting discusses removing Cde. Kania due to uprisings in Poland. It also addresses shortages of oil and supplies for export and use within the Soviet Union.
January 16, 1950	Information at Bulgarian Plenum on Stalin's View on the Purges in the Bulgarian Communist Party Georgi Chankov and Vulko Chervenkov present a report before the BCP CC on their recent meeting with Joseph Stalin, Georgi Malenkov and Nikolai Bulganin in Moscow. Among the issues discussed were the ongoing purges in the BCP, the role of the Agrarian Movement in the government, the state of the Bulgarian armed forces and the Bulgarian industrial and agricultural production.
April 13, 1982	KGB Annual Report for 1981 (Excerpts) In this report Andropov describes the successes of the KGB and Cheka in subverting the infiltration of counterintelligence of NATO countries and Solidarity in the Soviet Union.
November 18, 1989	CPSU CC Protocol #172/9, 18 November 1989 This protocol (dated 19 October 1989) deals with additional measures in the information sphere (telecommunications, etc.)
October 6, 1987	Documents Pertaining to CPSU CC Decision #5335 of 14 July 1987 and CPSU CC Secretariat Meeting of 6 October 1987 This collection of documents deals with the 6 October 1987 meeting of the Secretary of the CC and with CPSU CC Declaration of 14 July 1987 (56/5). They address the opening of the press and the publication of some criminal statistics.
May 31, 1991	CPSU CC Reports: 31 May 1991 and 14 May 1991 These documents deal with the military strength of the USSR and arms.