The Cold War, television documentary archive, 1995-1998 - (continued COLDWAR 28/1 - 33/4) -
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1995 Dec 12
Typescript transcript of interview with Yevgeni Khaldei, photographic correspondent with the Red Army, [1941]-1945, relating to the Red Army's advance through the territory formerly occupied by the Germans, 1943-1944; the feelings amongst Red Army soldiers towards German troops and civilians, 1944-1945; the battle for Berlin, Germany, 16 Apr-2 May 1945; the photograph, taken by Khaldei, of Red Army troops raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag building, Berlin, 1 May 1945; the supply of food by the Red Army to the German civilian population, 1945; rapes committed by Red Army soldiers on German civilians, 1945; the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, between the leaders of the USSR, USA and UK to decide the future boundaries of East European states, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945; the character and leadership of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1945; the devastation in the formerly German occupied areas of the USSR, 1945-1946; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953; the death of Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. (2 versions) 24pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Luibov Kozinchenko, Red Army Medical Sanitary Instructor and Nurse, 1941-1945; relating to the Red Army's advance through the USSR and Eastern Europe, 1942-1945; the meeting between the Red Army and the US Army, Torgau, river Elbe, Germany, 25 Apr 1945; the devastation in the formerly German occupied areas of the USSR, 1945-1946. 26pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Lev Mischenko, student and researcher, Academy of Sciences Institute, Moscow University, USSR, [1940-1942], relating to his service with the Red Army, 1944; his capture by the German Army and imprisonment at Buchenwald concentration camp and a slave labour camp, Saxony, Germany, 1944-1945; his liberation by the US Army, Apr 1945; his arrest for espionage by the Red Army, 1945, and imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag slave labour camps, 1946-1954; and the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 24pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Victoria Zlobina, Senior Health Care Inspector, Soviet Ministry of Health, Moscow, USSR, [1947-1960], relating to the announcement of the end of the war, May 1945; the poverty, food shortages and devastation in the USSR, 1945-[1948]; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953; the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953; and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 27pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Konstantin Koval, Soviet official, 1945, relating to the removal of industrial plant and equipment by the Soviets from occupied Germany as war reparations, 1945; orders given by Soviet Marshal Georgiy Konstantinovich Zhukov for the Red Army to strip West Berlin of anything of value as war reparations, Apr 1945; and the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, between the leaders of the USSR, USA and UK to decide the future boundaries of East European states, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945. 52pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Alexander Gordeyev, Red Army, 1944-1945, relating to conditions in the formerly German occupied areas of the USSR, 1944-1945; the meeting between the Red Army and the US Army, Torgau, River Elbe, Germany, 25 Apr 1945; the destruction in Dresden, Germany, 1945; the liberation of Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 1945; the 'Iron Curtain' speech made by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA, 5 Mar 1946; and the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948. 8pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Valentina Gordeyeva, Red Army, 1941-1945, relating to Operation BARBAROSSA, the German invasion of the USSR, 22 Jun 1941; Gordeyeva's service with the Red Army, 1941-1945; and the announcement of the end of the war, May 1945. 8pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Vladimir Yerofeyev, French language translator for Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, [1945]-1953, relating to the death of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 12 Apr 1945; the attendance at the United Nations Organisation Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, of (Skryabin) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, Apr-Jun 1945; the Victory Day celebrations, Moscow, USSR, 9 May 1945; the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, between the leaders of the USSR, USA and UK to decide the future boundaries of East European states, Potsdam, Germany, 17 Jul-2 Aug 1945; the decision, by US President Harry S Truman, to inform Stalin of the USA's possession of the atomic bomb, Jul 1945; the relationship between Stalin and Molotov, 1941-1953; the character of Stalin, 1941-1945; the joint occupation of Iran by Soviet and British forces, 1941-1946; the reaction in the USSR to the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1949; the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau), an organisation to co-ordinate Communist Party activities throughout Europe, Jun 1948; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953; and the death of Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 54pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Mikhail Semiryaga, Red Army, [1941-1946], relating to the capture of Berlin, Germany, by the Red Army, Apr-May 1945; the destruction in Berlin, 1945; the feeding of the German civilian population of Berlin by the Red Army, 1945; the demilitarisation of Germany, 1945; the attitude of the Soviet population towards German civilians, 1945; Soviet support for the German Communist Party, 1945-1946; relations between the USSR and the Western Allies, 1945-1948; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949. 38pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Yakov Etinger, relating to the arrest of Etinger and his father during the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, Oct-Nov 1950; including anti-Semitism in the USSR, 1948-1953; the arrest of his father on suspicion of murder following the death of Aleksandr Sergeevich Shcherbakov, Commissar of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1945; the death of his father in Soviet custody, Mar 1951; Etinger's imprisonment in the Lubyanka prison, Moscow, USSR, 1950-1951; the pivotal role of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin during the 'Doctor's plot', 1950-1953; Etinger's sentence of ten years imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag slave labour camps, 1951, and subsequent release, 1954. 24pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Sussana Pechuro, relating to social, economic and political conditions in the USSR, 1945-1946; the Victory Day celebrations, Moscow, USSR, 9 May 1945; Pechuro's arrest for being a member of an underground, pro-democracy organisation, [1948]; anti-Semitism in the USSR, 1948-1953; Pechuro's experience of imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag slave labour camps, [1948-1955]; Pechuro's interrogation by Viktor Abakumov, Soviet Minister of State Security, [1948]. 36pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Yakov Drabkin, Soviet official, Germany, 1945-[1950], relating to his role in Germany liasing with the German population on aspects of Soviet policy, 1945-[1950]; the German attitude to the Red Army, 1945-1948; the relationship between Soviet liaison officers and members of the German Communist Party, [1946-1949]; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the creation of the German Democratic Republic, Oct 1949; anti-Semitism in Germany, 1948-1949; the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 30pp
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1995 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Irina Platanovna Drabkina, relating to Soviet relations with German civilians, Germany, 1946-1949; the Soviet blockade of West Berlin and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949; the improved standard of living for the population of West Berlin over conditions in East Berlin, 1948-1949; the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953. 5pp
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1996 Jan
Typescript transcript of interview with Lev Kopelev, Red Army, 1941-1945, relating to the Red Army's advance into Germany, 1945; the destruction, looting and rapes committed by Soviet troops in Germany, 1945; Kopelev's arrest for criticising the actions of the Red Army in Germany, 1945; the purge, ordered by Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, of the officer corps of the Red Army, 1937-1939; his journey back to the USSR, 1945 and imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag slave labour camps, 1945-1954; his reaction to Stalin's death, Mar 1953; his release from the Gulag, 1954; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956, and in Czechoslovakia, 1968; Kopelev's expulsion from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1968; and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 13pp
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1996 Jan
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Col Dimitri Nikolaevich Sukhanov, Assistant to Georgiy Maksimilyanovich Malenkov, [1948], relating to the Soviet reaction to the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947-1948; the Soviet ideological objections to the Marshall Plan, 1948; the creation by the USSR of Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) and the Committee for Mutual Economic Assistance to counter the US Marshall Plan, 1947; the communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia, Feb 1948; the deterioration in the relationship between Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin and Josip 'Broz' Tito, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, 1948; the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform, Jun 1948; the acceptance by Yugoslavia of US economic aid, 1949; the role of NKVD (Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) advisers in the trial of Rudolf Slánský, the Jewish Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia, Nov 1952; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953; the deteriorating health of Stalin, 1951-1953; the character of Stalin, 1952-1953; the death of Stalin, 5 Mar 1953; the changes in Soviet foreign policy following Stalin's death, 1953-1954; the improvement in Soviet/US relations, 1953-1956; the Soviet economy and the early development of the space industry, 1953-1957; Soviet objections towards German reunification, 1954; the arrest of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, Soviet Commissar for Internal Affairs, on charges of conspiracy, Jul 1953.
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1996 Jan
Typescript transcript of interview with Yakov Pevzner, Soviet economist, relating to the closure of the Soviet Institute of World Economics, [Moscow], USSR, as it was perceived to support the US Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947; the reaction to the Marshall Plan in the USSR, 1947-1948; Pevzner's opinion on whether the USSR should have accepted the Marshall Plan, 1948; the Soviet belief that the implementation of the Marshall Plan in Europe was to ensure the spread of capitalist ideals, 1947-1948; the opposition of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin to the Marshall Plan, 1947-1948.
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1996 Jan 31
Typescript transcript of interview with Yuri Ivanovich Modin, [Soviet Diplomat], Soviet Embassy, London, UK, 1947-[1963], relating to the intelligence acquired by the NKVD (Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) on the US economic proposals for Europe that later became the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947-1948; the attendance of (Skryabin) Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, at the Conference on European Economic Cooperation to discuss the Marshall Plan, Paris, France, Jul 1947; the implementation of the Marshall Plan, [1948-1950]; Soviet support for communist organisations in France, Italy and the UK, 1947-1949; Modin's relationship with British spies working for the USSR, including Guy (Francis de Moncy) Burgess, Anthony (Frederick) Blunt, Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby and Donald (Duart) Maclean, 1951-1963; the information passed by British spies to the USSR, 1951-1963; the transfer of intelligence to Moscow, USSR, and the provision of copies for Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Molotov and Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs, 1951-[1953]; Modin's opinion on the characteristics of a good spy, 1996; Soviet knowledge of British and US wartime research into the atomic bomb, 1942-1945; Stalin's reaction to US President Harry S Truman's announcement at the Potsdam conference, codenamed TERMINAL, Jul-Aug 1945, of the TRINITY Atomic Test, the detonation of the first atomic bomb, Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, Alamogordo Desert, New Mexico, USA, 16 Jul 1945; the supply of intelligence to the USSR on the implementation of the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947-1948; the impact of British spies working for the USSR on the Cold War, 1951-1963.
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1996 [Feb]
Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Feklisov, [Soviet Diplomat], [1942-1963], and the Soviet contact for Dr Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, nuclear physicist on the US nuclear weapons development programme and Soviet spy, [1943-1950], relating to Fuchs' ideological and political motivation for supplying nuclear intelligence to the USSR, 1943-1950; the value to the USSR of the information provided by Fuchs from the US Manhattan Project, the Anglo-US project to develop an atomic bomb, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, [1943-1946]; the atomic secrets given to the USSR by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1944-1945; the opposition by Dr Julius Robert Oppenheimer, to the US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs) 1948-1952; the importance of the nuclear intelligence provided by the Soviet agent codenamed PERSEUS, [1944-1945]; the information provided by Fuchs on the US development of thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), [1948-1950]; the arrest of Fuchs whilst employed at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Oxfordshire, Feb 1950; Fuchs' trial, sentence to fourteen years imprisonment and release from prison, 1950-1959; the confession by Harry Gold to the US authorities of his role as a Soviet spy and the implication of Fuchs' from his testimony, [1949-1950]; the employment by the USA of immigrants to the USSR as intelligence agents, [1945-1954]; the Soviet discovery of British and US plans, dated 1948, for a preventative war against the USSR, [1952-1953]; McCarthyism, the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954; the visit to Moscow, USSR, by US Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, and his meeting with Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964, Jul 1959; the characters of Nixon and Khrushchev, 1959; the official visit to the USA by Khrushchev, 1959; Feklisov's opinion of US President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1959.
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1996 [Feb]
Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Pokrovsky, Soviet artist and opera director, [1948-1996], relating to the censorship of art and the restrictions placed on the work of artists in the USSR, [1948-1953]; the artistic tastes of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, [1948]-1953; the ideological control on Pokrovsky's work by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR, [1948-1953]; the criticism of art in the USSR, [1948-1953]; Stalin's interference in artistic matters concerning the work of the Bolshoi Theatre company, Moscow, USSR, [1948-1953]; the Soviet anti-cosmopolitan campaign and its effect on art, [1950-1953]; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953.
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1996 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Arkadi Brish, relating to the Soviet atomic bomb development programme, 1945-1949; the importance of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs, in the Soviet nuclear development programme, 1945-1949; the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 29 Aug 1949; the Soviet exploitation of espionage to further the development of nuclear weapons, 1945-1949; the size of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, 1955; the Soviet thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb development programme, 1949-1953; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites via SS-6 'Sapwood' Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), Oct and Nov 1957; the detonation by the USSR of a 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Novaya Zemlya Island, USSR, 30 Oct 1961; the announcement of the US Atoms for Peace programme to share nuclear knowledge with other countries, 1953; the characters of Yuli Khariton, Scientific Director of Arzamas 16, the Soviet nuclear weapons research complex, 1946-1992, and Igor Vasilevich Kurchatov, Scientific Director, Soviet nuclear development programme, 1945-1953. 21pp
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1996 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Dubovich Davydov, relating to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 29 Aug 1949; the Soviet atomic bomb development programme, 1945-1949; the importance of Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs, in the Soviet nuclear development programme, 1945-1949; Soviet thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb tests, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, 12 Aug 1953; Soviet nuclear civil defence measures, [1950-1955]. 18pp
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1996 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Galina Mishina, relating to Soviet nuclear civil defence measures and education on the survivability of a nuclear war with the USA, [1950-1960]; Soviet popular perceptions of the USA, [1950-1960]; Soviet fears of a nuclear war with the USA, [1950-1960]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the launch of the Soviet Sputnik I and Sputnik II Earth orbiting satellites via SS-6 'Sapwood' Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), Oct and Nov 1957; the launch of the first man to travel in space, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, 12 Apr 1961. 11pp
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1996 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Sevseevich Chertok, relating to Soviet research into rocket technology, 1933-1957; German wartime rocket research, Nordhausen and Peenemünde, Germany, [1942-1945]; Soviet development of the R-7 (SS-6 'Sapwood') Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), and the launch of the Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, 1953-1957; the launch of the first man to travel in space, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, 12 Apr 1961; the serious accidents that occurred during the testing of Soviet space rockets, 1956-1962. 22pp
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1996 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Maj Gherman Stepanovich Titov, the second Soviet Cosmonaut, relating to the Soviet selection and training of the first Cosmonauts, 1960-1961; the character of Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, the first Soviet Cosmonaut, 1960-1961; Gagarin's space flight, Apr 1961; launch of Soviet spacecraft Vostok II, with Titov on board, 6 Aug 1961; the US/Soviet space race, 1957-1969; the US Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, Jul 1969; the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Ukraine, USSR, 25-26 -Apr 1986. 10pp
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1996 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Georgi Aleksandrovich Mikhailov, relating to Soviet anti-aircraft defences around Moscow, USSR, 1955; the development of strategic bomber aircraft by the USSR, the USA and UK, 1945-[1960]; US reconnaissance flights over the USSR, 1956-1960; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960. 10pp
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1996 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Valentin Larionov, relating to Soviet military exercises, Totskoye, Ural Mountains, USSR, to test the effectiveness of nuclear weapons under simulated conditions, 1954; Soviet development of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), 1953-1957; the policies of threat and nuclear deterrence used by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, against the USA, 1953-1964; Soviet development of Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM), 1955-1958. 10pp
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1996 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Khionia [Nikolaevna] Kraskina, Soviet scientist at the Soviet Rocket Development and Space Centre, Baykonur, USSR, 1954-[1961], relating to the Soviet space programme, 1954-1961; Soviet development of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), 1953-1957; the launch of the first man to travel in space, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, 12 Apr 1961; the launch of the Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, Oct 1957; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the serious accident that occurred during the testing of a Soviet space rockets, 24 Oct 1960. 21pp
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1996 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Oleg Troyanovski, relating to the impact in the USSR of the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953; the Berlin Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961; the emergence of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev as the Soviet leader after Stalin's death, 1953; the summit conference between US President Dwight David Eisenhower and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Geneva, Switzerland, Jul 1955; the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany and incorporation into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1954; Soviet development of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), 1953-1957; the official visit to the USA by Khrushchev, 1959; US reconnaissance flights over the USSR, 1956-1960; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Paris, France, May 1960; the launch of the Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, Oct 1957; the launch of the first man to travel in space, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, 12 Apr 1961; the attempted d'etat against Khrushchev's leadership from within the Soviet Communist Party, 1957; the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the US Presidential election, Nov 1960; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the denunciation by Khrushchev of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the creation of the Warsaw Pact, the Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, Poland, 1955; the withdrawal of British, American, French and Soviet occupation forces from Austria, 1955; the first Atoms for Peace Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1955; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, Nov 1956; the Soviet opinion of the first march from London to the British nuclear research site at Aldermaston, Berkshire, and the foundation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1958; the Soviet view of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, [1958-1960]. 37pp
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1996 May 13
Typescript transcript of interview with Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, cellist, conductor and pianist, relating to Rostropovich's reaction to a speech by Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin on formalism in art, 1948; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; a meeting between Rostropovich and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, at the Soviet Embassy, Berlin, Germany, 1964; the Soviet and Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia, Aug 1968; meetings with Soviet author Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1969; Rostropovich's decision to settle in the USA, 1974; the deprivation of Rostropovich's Soviet citizenship, 1978. 20pp (2 copies, one annotated)
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1996 Jun 2
Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964, relating to Nikita Khrushchev's opinion of the USA, [1959]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Soviet policies towards the eastern European satellite countries, 1953-1964; the denunciation by Nikita Khrushchev of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956; the re-establishment of cordial relations with Yugoslavia, 1955; Soviet relations with the People's Republic of China, 1953-1964; the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany and incorporation into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1954; the Berlin Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961; the East Berlin uprising, 17 Jun 1953; Nikita Khrushchev's relationships with Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, [1932]-1953, Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Commissar for Internal Affairs, 1938-1953, Georgiy Maksimilyanovich Malenkov, Prime Minister, 1953-1955, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1939-1949 and 1953-1956, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, Deputy Prime Minister, 1937-1964, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Bulganin, Premier and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, 1955-1958, and with US President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961; Nikita Khrushchev's opinion of Dulles, Mao, the summit meeting between Nikita Khrushchev, and US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; the death of Stalin, Mar 1953. 30pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Grigori Dobrynov, USSR Army stationed in Hungary, (1953-1956) relating to the response of the Soviet army to the Hungarian uprising, 1956. 17pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Vladimir Kryuchkov, USSR Foreign Ministry, Hungary, 1955-1959, KGB (Committee of State Security) Head of Counter Intelligence, Head of KGB 1988-1991; relating to Soviet relations with Hungary, and the Hungarian uprising, 1956. 24pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Oleg Troyanovski, advisor to Nikita Khrushchev, Gen Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, 1953-1964, relating to Soviet foreign policy after the death of Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1953, including relations with Korea, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Vietnam and China, (1953-1970). 29pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Zoria Serebriakova, daughter of Leonid Serebriakov, a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution, and the member of the Left Opposition, 1923, who was executed 1937, relating to the reaction in the Soviet Union, to the death of Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1953; the Soviet policy under Nikita Khrushchev, and General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1953-1964; and her experience in Soviet Gulag labour camp, 1937. 10pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Kovaliov, Soviet assistant to High Commissioner, East Berlin, (1949-1952) relating to USSR relations with Germany, in particularly the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1949-1956, and Hungary, 1956. 21pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Col Dimitri Nikolaevich Sukhanov, worker in the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet, 1953-1954, relating to the death of Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, Gen Secretary of the Communist Party, Mar 1953; the struggle for succession as leader of the USSR; and the policies of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964. Also comments on USSR foreign policy in relation to Germany and Yugoslavia. 25pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Alexander Bogomolov, Russian translator for the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) (East Germany), relating to the development of GDR as a communist state and German Soviet relations, (1950s). 21pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Fedor Mochulski, Soviet Embassy Official in China 1951-1966, relating to relations between the USSR and China, including their response to US involvement in the Vietnam conflict. 47pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Igor Yershov, USSR Military Advisor to Vietnam, relating to USSR provision of military assistance to North Vietnam, 1965-1967, and his experience of US bombing raids. Also comments on USSR relations with China and China's relations with Vietnam. 22pp
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1996 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Igor Ognietov, Soviet Communist Party Vietnam Specialist, relating to Soviet military assistance to North Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict; and relations between USSR, China and Vietnam. 27pp
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1996 Jul 22
Typescript transcript of interview with Yuli Kvitsinsky, translator at the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, 1959-[1962] relating to the decision of the German Democratic Republic government to close the border in Berlin and construct the Berlin Wall, 1961, and the significance of Soviet relations. 22pp
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1996 Jul 22
Typescript transcript of interview with Valentin Michailowitsch Falin, Soviet diplomat, Head of International Department of the Soviet Communist Party, and Ambassador to West Germany, relating to Soviet relations with the German Democratic Republic, the decision to close the GDR border, 1961, and Soviet US relations [1958-1963]. 29pp
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1996 Jul 23
Typescript transcript of interview with Gen Anatoly Ivanovich Gribkov, USSR Army, relating to US Soviet relations including the establishment of the Warsaw Pact, 1955, the nuclear rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961. 21pp
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1996 Jul 23
Typescript transcript of interview with Georgi Volkov, relating to the role of the Soviet army during the closing of he German Democratic Republic border, 1961, and the appointment of Field Marshall Ivan Konev to head Soviet forces in the GDR, 1961. 8pp
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1996 Jul
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to US Soviet relations including the visit of Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of Communist Party, USSR 1953-1964 to the US, 1959, for talks with Dwight L Eisenhower, US President 1953-1961; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Paris, France, May 1960; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; Soviet attitude to US involvement in the Vietnam conflict 1961-1975. 43pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to the Soviet reaction to the detonation of the first Chinese atomic bomb, Lop Nor, People's Republic of China, Oct 1964; the Soviet leadership's relationship with Mao Zedong, Chairman of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; communications between the Soviet Embassy, Washington DC, USA, and the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab nations of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, 5-10 Jun 1967; the summit meeting between US President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA, Jun 1967; the US nuclear doctrines of massive retaliation, 1954-1960, mutually assured destruction (MAD), 1967, counterforce, 1962, and flexible response, 1961; the Soviet development of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, [1968-1969]; the Soviet development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV), [1970-1972]; US military involvement in the Vietnam War, 1965-1975; the Soviet reaction to the election of Richard Milhous Nixon as US President, Nov 1968; the character of US President Nixon, 1969-1974; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I (SALT I), 1969-1972; the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jul 1968; the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Aug 1963; the Soviet reaction to the assassination of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Nov 1963; the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt and Syria, Oct 1973; covert negotiations on Strategic Arms Limitation between Dobrynin and Dr Henry (Alfred) Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1969-1972. 38pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Lt Gen Nikolay Nikolaevich Detinov, General Staff Officer, Soviet Armed Forces, relating to the Soviet opinion on the consequences of a nuclear war with the USA, [1961-1969]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the US nuclear doctrine of counterforce, emphasising limited nuclear strikes against an enemy's armed forces and not against civilian populations, 1962; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), [1968-1972]; the effect of the US/Soviet arms race on the living standard of the Soviet population, [1963-1989]; the Soviet development of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, [1968-1969]; the Soviet development of military technology originally deployed by the USA, such as nuclear weapons, Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) and multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), 1946-1975; Soviet development of the R-7 (SS-6 'Sapwood') Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), and the launch of the Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, 1953-1957; the launch of the first man to travel in space, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, 12 Apr 1961; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), 1969-1972; the successes of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I), May 1972. 23pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Yuri Vsevolovich Vontintsev, [Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces], relating to the Soviet development of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, [1968-1969]; the US bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Aug 1945; the 'Iron Curtain' speech made by Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA, 5 Mar 1946; the Soviet development of the atomic bomb, 1945-1949; the deployment of the Soviet ABM system around Moscow, USSR, 1963-1964; the US ABM development programme, 1959-[1972]; the US development of multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs), [1968-1972]; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, 1956, and in Czechoslovakia, 1968. 19pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Gennady Serusevich Kudriavtsev, Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces, 1961-1973, relating to Kudriavtsev's military service, 1961-1973; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the USSR reaching parity with the USA in the numbers of strategic nuclear weapons deployed, 1969; the US deployment of the Martin-Marietta LGM-25C Titan II Heavy Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), 1962-[1987]. 22pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Maj Gen Valentin Larionov, Deputy Head of the Soviet Strategy Department [1960-1963], relating to Soviet nuclear strategy, [1960-1963]; the increase in the number of Soviet missiles deployed and the subsequent decrease in conventional forces, [1960-1963]; speculation on Soviet first strike capability, 1962; the Berlin Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the US nuclear doctrine of counterforce, emphasising limited nuclear strikes against an enemy's armed forces and not against civilian populations, 1962; mutually assured destruction (MAD), 1967; the US belief in Soviet expansionist policies, [1960-1969]; Soviet civil defence measures, [1960-1969]; the detonation by the USSR of a 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Novaya Zemlya Island, USSR, 30 Oct 1961. 28pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Alexei Kalashnikov, Soviet Strategic Missile Force, relating to the creation of the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces, 1958; the detonation by the USSR of a 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Novaya Zemlya Island, USSR, 30 Oct 1961; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Soviet first strike capability, [1960-1969]; the Soviet opinion of the US strategic doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD), 1967. 19pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Vassily Ambrosovich Poliakov, Soviet interceptor pilot, 1952-[1965], relating to US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reconnaissance missions over the USSR, 1956-1960; the Soviet deployment of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 19 'Farmer' fighter aircraft to intercept US reconnaissance aircraft over the USSR, 1956-1960; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a CIA Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960; the shooting down by Poliakov of a USAF Boeing RB-47 Stratojet aircraft over the Barents Sea and the rescue and capture of two of the aircrew, Capt John B McKone and Capt Freeman Bruce Olmstead, 1 Jul 1960; the imprisonment and treatment of the captured US aircrew, 1960. 19pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Gen Mikhail Mokrinsky, Soviet reconnaissance pilot, [1960], relating to Soviet reconnaissance flights over the Pacific Ocean to observe the US Fleet and the deployment of US aircraft carriers, [1961-1963]; the Soviet opinion of the ideological differences between the USSR and USA, [1961-1963]; the detonation by the USSR of a 50 megaton nuclear weapon, Novaya Zemlya Island, USSR, 30 Oct 1961; the Soviet development of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) and the reduction in production of strategic bombers, 1956-1958; Mokrinsky's aircraft almost crashing into the US Navy aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY, [1965]. 15pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Maria Stepanova, worker in an electro-mechanical plant, Moscow, USSR, and Soviet civil defence trainer, [1941-1975], relating to Soviet civil defence training programmes, [1960-1969]; the development of the Moscow Metro system as public shelters against nuclear attack, [1960-1969]; Soviet provision of nuclear shelters in industrial complexes, 1965; the ideological differences between the USSR and the USA, [1960-1969]; the benefits of Soviet experience during the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945, in the development of civil defence measures, [1960-1969]; the financial burden of the nuclear arms race on the USSR, 1945-1991. 15pp
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1996 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Adm Nikolay Idalich Usenko, relating to the Soviet development of a navy that could compete with the US Navy, 1956-1989; the development of nuclear powered submarines by the US Navy, 1952-1964; US development of Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs), [1955]-1959; the fire on board the Soviet nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine K-19, in the North Atlantic Ocean, 24 Feb 1972; the collision between the USS TAUTOG, a Sturgeon-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, and K-108, a Soviet Echo II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, Jun 1970; Soviet submarine patrols, [1960-1969]; the US naval blockade of Cuba, Oct 1962; the forcing to the surface of a Soviet submarine by the US Navy durng the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; US/Soviet tension in the Indian Ocean during the Indo-Pakistan War, 1965; the ideological differences between the USSR and the USA, [1960-1969]; the Palomares incident, the collision of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and a Boeing KC-135 tanker aircraft over Spain resulting in the loss of the two aircraft and the crash landing of four thermonuclear weapons, Jan 1966; the financial burden of the nuclear arms race on the USSR, 1945-1991. 19pp
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1997 Jan 30
Typescript transcript of interview with Nikolai Fedorenko, diplomat, Soviet embassy China and interpreter to Stalin, relating to the visit of Mao Zedong, Chairman Communist Party of China, 1935-1976 to the USSR, and meetings with Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1949, Soviet Chinese relations, Nikita Khrushchev's visit to China, 1958, and Soviet and Chinese involvement in the Korean War, 1950-1953. 44pp
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1997 Feb 2
Typescript transcript of interview with Yevgeni (Aleksandrovich) Yevtushenko, Soviet poet and critic of the Soviet regime, 1955-1990, relating to the Moscow youth Festival, 1957; censorship in the USSR, 1917-1990; the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968; the character and leadership of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964; the impact of Yevtushenko's poetry on the youth of the USSR and the reaction of the Soviet authorities, 1955-1962; Yevtushenko's reaction in [1956] to the news of the existence of the Soviet Gulag labour camps following the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1953; Khrushchev's support for the doctrine of social realism in art and his rejection of abstract art, 1963; the trial and imprisonment in the USSR of Yuli Markovich Daniel (pseudonym Nikolai Arzhak) and Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (pseudonym Abraham Tertz), charged with anti-Soviet propaganda for the publication of satirical short stories in the West, 1966; the influence of the life of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, 1890-1960, on other Soviet writers and poets, and the importance of the publication of Doctor Zhivago (Feltrinelli, Milan, Italy, 1957) in the West, 1957, and in the USSR, 1988; the event, in Yevtushenko's opinion, that signified the end of the Cold War, the speech by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, to a forum of international intellectuals, stating that human values were above politics and the class struggle, [1989]; the influence of the Cold War on Soviet culture and society, 1945-1989; Khrushchev's decision to authorise the Soviet publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1962, and The Heirs of Stalin (1961) by Yevtushenko, 1961. 49pp
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1997 Feb
Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1953-1964, chiefly describing his fathers actions and opinions relating to his aims for Soviet society, 1954-1964; the Soviet rejection of US President Dwight David Eisenhower's Open Skies proposal, to allow US and Soviet aircraft to overfly each other's countries to observe military installations, and for an exchange of military programmes to occur, [1953]; the official visit to the USA by Nikita Khrushchev, 1959; the visit to the UK by Khrushchev and Marshal Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin, Soviet Prime Minister, Apr 1956; the opposition in the USSR to Khrushchev's leadership, 1954-1964; his policies to improve living conditions in the USSR, 1954-1964; Soviet military expenditure, 1954-1964; Khrushchev's opinion of Soviet art and literature, 1954-1964; Khrushchev's decision, influenced by Aleksandr Trofimovich Tvardovsky, Editor of Novyy mir, to authorise the Soviet publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1962, and The Heirs of Stalin (1961) by Yevtushenko, 1961; Khrushchev's fascination with the development of new technologies, 1954-1964; his removal from power and subsequent nervous breakdown, 1964; the rise to power of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, 1960-1964; the denunciation by Nikita Khrushchev, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Khrushchev's decision to install Soviet nuclear weapons on Cuba, 1962. 40pp
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1997 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Oleg Troyanovski, [Soviet Foreign Ministry], relating to the relationship between the USSR and the Cuban government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, 1960-1962; the Cuban revolution and the assumption of power by Castro, Jan-Feb 1959; the reaction of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to Castro's appeal for Soviet help to counter US aggression towards Cuba, Sep 1960; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; Khrushchev's opinion of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy following the Bay of Pigs incident, 1961; the decision by the USSR to support Cuba against US aggression, [1961]; the deployment of US Chrysler Jupiter SM-78 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) in Turkey, [1961]; the Soviet decision to deploy SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; discussions between Khrushchev, Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, and Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, Soviet First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, on the possible dangers of deploying missiles to Cuba, 1962; the meeting between Gromyko and US President Kennedy, Washington DC, USA, 18 Oct 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the meetings between Robert Francis Kennedy, US Attorney General, and Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA, Washington DC, USA, Oct 1962; the influence of Berlin on the Soviet decision to deploy missiles in Cuba, 1962; Troyanovski's fears that the Cuban Missile Crisis could result in a war between the USSR and the USA, Oct 1962; the amount of information on the Cuban Missile Crisis that was revealed to the Soviet population, Oct 1962; the two telegrams that Khrushchev sent to US President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Soviet fears of the possibility of a US invasion of Cuba, 1962; the Soviet control of the launch procedures of the missiles deployed to Cuba, 1962; the meetings between John A Scali, Diplomatic Correspondent for ABC News, and Aleksandr Feklisov, [Soviet Diplomat], Washington DC, USA, Oct 1962; Troyanovski's opinion on how near the USSR and USA came to war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. 31pp
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1997 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Nikolai Bieloborodov, Red Army officer, commanded the construction of the Soviet missile sites on Cuba, 1962, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1960; the Soviet opinion of US opposition to Castro's regime in Cuba, 1959-1962; the opposition within the Soviet military to the US possession of bases around the world, 1959-1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; Operation MONGOOSE, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to destabilise Cuba and assassinate Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, 1960; the covert delivery of Soviet military equipment, personnel and nuclear warheads to Cuba, 1962; the strategic impact on the USA of the Soviet deployment of missiles to Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the shooting down of a US Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; the Soviet control of the launch procedures of the missiles deployed to Cuba, 1962; the discovery of the Soviet deployment Missiles to Cuba through US reconnaissance photography, 16 Oct 1962; Soviet speculation on a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the telegram from Castro to Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, requesting the possible use of nuclear weapons against the USA, 1962; Bieloborodov's opinion on how close the USA and USSR came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the non-installation of the nuclear warheads on the Soviet missiles in Cuba, 1962; Bieloborodov's orders and preparations to repel the expected US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the Soviet decision to withdraw the missiles from Cuba, Oct 1962; the impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis on US-Soviet relations, 1962-1997. 33pp
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1997 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Grigory Romanovich Danilevich, Red Army officer, 1962, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1960; Soviet economic, political, diplomatic and military support for Cuba, 1959-1962; the Soviet opinion of US opposition to Castro's regime in Cuba, 1959-1962; the disparity between the USSR and the USA on the numbers of deployed nuclear weapons, 1961-1962; Danilevich's posting and voyage to Cuba, 1962; the issue of civilian clothes to Soviet military personnel during the voyage to Cuba, 1962; the welcome given by the Cuban people on the arrival of the Soviet military personnel in Cuba, 1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the shooting down of a US Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962. 24pp
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1997 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Gen Anatoly Ivanovich Gribkov, commanded the operational command of the Soviet Chief of Staff, 1962, relating to Soviet support for the government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz) in Cuba, 1959-1962; US opposition to Castro's regime in Cuba, 1959-1962; the opposition in the USSR to US foreign policy, 1959-1962; Soviet military aid to Cuba, 1960-1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the deployment of Soviet military equipment, personnel and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21 'Fishbed' aircraft to Cuba, 1962; the strategic reasons for the Soviet deployment of missiles to Cuba, 1962; the issue of civilian clothes to Soviet military personnel during the voyage to Cuba, 1962; the welcome given by the Cuban people on the arrival of the Soviet military personnel in Cuba, 1962; the siting of the missiles and the construction of bases in Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the shooting down of a US Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, Cuba, 27 Oct 1962; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; Gribkov's opinion on how near the USSR and USA came to war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; the removal of the Soviet missiles from Cuba, Oct-Nov 1962. 36pp
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1997 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Goncharov, Red Army, Cuba, 1962, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1960; Goncharov's support for Soviet aid to Cuba, 1960-1962; Goncharov's opinion of US foreign policy, 1960-1962; Goncharov's posting to a Red Army missile engineer unit, Lithuania, Jul 1962; the transfer of Soviet military engineering equipment from Lithuania to Sebastapol, Crimea, USSR, Jul 1962; the issue of civilian clothes to Soviet military personnel during the voyage to Cuba, 1962; Goncharov's account of the voyage to Cuba, 1962; the welcome given by the Cuban people on the arrival of the Soviet military personnel in Cuba, 1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the siting of the missiles and the construction of bases in Cuba, 1962; US flights over Cuba by Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, Oct 1962; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the Soviet withdrawal from Cuba, Oct-Nov 1962; Goncharov's opinion on how near the USSR and USA came to war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. 24pp
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1997 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Bondarev, member of Komsomol, the Soviet Communist Party youth organisation, [1961-1965], relating to Bondarev's opinion of the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the deployment of Soviet military equipment and personnel to Cuba, 1962; the high level of secrecy maintained during Bondarev's voyage to Cuba, 1962; US reconnaissance flights over Soviet ships bound for Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; Bondarev's account of his voyage from the Baltic to Cuba on board the supply ship BRODSK, 1962; Soviet attempts to avoid the US blockade of Cuba, 1962; the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, Oct-Nov 1962. 19pp
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1997 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Ambassador Aleksandr Ivanovich Alekseyev, Soviet Counsellor, Havana, Cuba, 1960-1962, and Ambassador to Cuba, 1962-1967, relating to the Soviet relationship with the Cuban government of President Fulgencio Batistá (y Zaldivar), 1954-1958; the Cuban revolution, 1956-Jan 1959; Alekseyev's opinion of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), Prime Minister of Cuba, and of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentinian communist revolutionary and Cuban Minister for Industries, [1959-1962]; the export of sugar from Cuba to the USSR, 1960; Castro's request for Soviet military aid, Apr 1960; Cuban fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 1960-1962; Operation MONGOOSE, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to destabilise Cuba and assassinate Castro, 1960; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; the Soviet decision to deploy SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; Alekseyev's opinion of the decision by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to deploy Soviet missiles in Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the television broadcast by US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy to the US public announcing the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, 22 Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 27-28 Oct 1962; the Soviet decision to withdraw the missiles from Cuba and failure to consult Castro, Oct 1962. 49pp
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1997 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to the reaction in the USSR to the Cuban revolution and to the socialist government of Dr Fidel Castro (Ruz), 1959-1961; the decision by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to provide Soviet economic and military aid to Cuba, [1961]; the strategic importance of Cuba to the USSR, 1961-1962; Soviet fears of a US invasion of Cuba, 1961-1962; the Bay of Pigs incident, Cochinos Bay, Cuba, Apr 1961; the Soviet supply of military aid to Cuba, 1962; the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the television broadcast by US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy to the US public announcing the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, 22 Oct 1962; the US naval blockade of Cuba, 1962; Dobrynin's opinion on not being informed of the Soviet deployment of missiles to Cuba, 1962; the meetings between Dobrynin and Robert Francis Kennedy, US Attorney General, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 23 and 27 Oct 1962; the US decision to agree to the withdrawal of Chrysler Jupiter SM-78 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) based in Turkey, Oct 1962; Dobrynin's opinion on how close the USA and the USSR came to a nuclear confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Dobrynin's opinion of the leadership and characters of US President Kennedy and Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the relationship between Dobrynin and Robert Kennedy, Oct 1962; the Soviet opinion of the rapprochement between the USA and the People's Republic of China, 1969-1972; the reaction in the USSR to the visit to China by US President Richard Milhous Nixon, Feb 1972. 40pp
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1997 Mar
Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Feklisov, [Soviet Diplomat], Washington DC, USA, 1962, relating to Feklisov's reaction to the Soviet deployment of SS-4 'Sandal' Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) and SS-5 'Skean' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM) to Cuba, 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; Feklisov's first meeting with John A Scali, Diplomatic Correspondent for ABC News, Washington DC, USA, 22 Oct 1962; the television broadcast by US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy to the US public announcing the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba, 22 Oct 1962; Feklisov's second meeting with Scali, 26 Oct 1962; US fears of a Soviet invasion of West Berlin, Germany, Oct 1962; Feklisov's meeting with Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the USA, and Robert Francis Kennedy, US Attorney General, Soviet Embassy, Washington DC, USA, 27 Oct 1962; Feklisov's opinion of the Soviet decision to withdraw the missiles from Cuba, Oct 1962. 20pp
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1997 Apr
Typescript transcript of interview with Georgy Arbatov, Russian scholar, foreign policy advisor to Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, 1964-1982, relating to Soviet foreign policy under Brezhnev, including relations with the US, visit of Richard Nixon, US President, 1969-1974, to Moscow, 1971, and development of economic links between USSR and US following détente between the two nations, 1969-1975. 30pp
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1997 Apr
Typescript transcript of interview with Valery Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut, relating to his career as a cosmonaut and participation in the first international space operation the Apollo Soyuz Test Project, Jun 1975. 15pp
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1997 Apr
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to Soviet US relations including the visit of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, 1964-1982, to the US, 1969; the visits of Richard Nixon, US President 1969-1974, to Moscow, 1972 and 1974; the Soviet perspective on the Watergate scandal, 1972-1974; and the Soviet policy on Jewish emigration. 40pp
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1997 Apr
Typescript transcript of interview with Victor Sukhodrev, interpreter to Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretaries of the Communist Party, USSR 1953-1982, Aleksei Kosygin, Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars, 1964-1980, and Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister,1957-1985, relating to Soviet US relations including meetings between Brezhnev, and Richard Nixon, US President 1969-1974, May 1972, and Jun 1973; the role of Henry Alfred Kissinger, US National Security Advisor, 1969-1972, in relations between the US and USSR; the first ever use of the hotline between Moscow and Washington during the Six Day War, Jun 1967; and Kosygin's meeting with Lyndon Baines Johnson, US President, 1963-1969, at Glassboro, New Jersey, Jun 1967. 55pp
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1997 Apr
Typescript transcript of interview with Stanislav Sorokin, KGB officer and advisor to North Vietnamese Secret Service, relating to Soviet aid to North Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict, 1965-1975, and his visit to the US Embassy, Saigon, South Vietnam, following the surrender of South Vietnam, 1975. 22pp
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1997 Apr
Typescript transcript of interview with Tatiana Zaslavskaya, Russian sociologist, relating to social conditions in the USSR during the 1960s and 1970s, and the response of the government to reformers and dissidents. 21pp
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[1997 May]
Typescript transcript of interview with Viktor Levonovich Israelyan, Soviet Ambassador to the Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Switzerland, 1979-1987, and author of Inside the Kremlin during the Yom Kippur War (Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, 1995), relating to the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975 and prevention of a superpower conflict in the Middle East, 1973; Soviet economic, ideological and military aid to Third World countries, [1965-1973]; the competition for influence in Third World countries between the USA, the USSR and the People's Republic of China, [1965-1980]; the Chinese criticism of the Soviet military involvement in Afghanistan, Dec 1979-1989; the strategic importance for the Soviets to maintain influence in the Middle East, [1965-1973]; speculation on the Egyptian desire to become a member of the Warsaw Pact, the Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, [1957]; the decline in Soviet influence in the Middle East following the Six Day War, 1967; the supply of Soviet arms to Egypt and Syria, 1970-1973; the exchange of messages between US President Richard Milhous Nixon and Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, during the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; speculation on the Soviet threat to deploy Red Army units to Egypt during the Six Day War, Jun 1967; the Soviet opposition to Arab involvement in the Yom Kippur War against Israel, Oct 1973; the reaction in the USSR of the expulsion, by Muhammad Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, of all Soviet military advisers from Egypt, 1972; the Soviet belief that Egypt and Syria would not start a war against Israel, Oct 1973; the reaction of Brezhnev, and Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, to the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, 6 Oct 1973; the Soviet attempts to arrange an early ceasefire during the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; the Soviet reaction to US arms deliveries to Israel, Oct 1973; the joint aims of the USSR and USA during the Yom Kippur War, to contain the conflict within the Middle East, 1973; the visit by Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger, US Secretary of State, to Moscow, USSR, to discuss the Middle East crisis with Brezhnev, 20-21 Oct 1973; the Middle East ceasefire terms agreed by Kissinger and Gromyko, Moscow, USSR, 22 Oct 1973; the Soviet reaction to the breaking of the ceasefire by Israel, 22-23 Oct 1973; speculation on the creation of a joint US-Soviet peacekeeping force for the Middle East, 1973; the placement of the US armed forces on DefCon 3 (Defense Condition, Level 3), a heightened status of readiness for a possible nuclear conflict, during the Middle East crisis, 1973; the Soviet response to the US DefCon 3 status and the risk of a nuclear confrontation between the superpowers, 1973; Israelyan's belief that the Yom Kippur War ended the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1973. 21pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Lt Gen Petr Vassilevich Chaplygin, relating to Chaplygin's posting to Ethiopia, Apr 1977; the conflict in Ethiopia between the Eritrean National Liberation Front and the Western Somali Liberation Front, 1977; Chaplygin's confusion as to the reasons behind the conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia, two African nations assisted by the USSR, 1977; Soviet military assistance to Ethiopia, 1977-1978; the poor standards in personnel and equipment in the Ethiopian Army, despite training by US advisers, [1977]; Cuban military aid to Ethiopia, 1977-1978; co-operation between Soviet and Cuban forces in Ethiopia, 1977-1978; the defence of Hărer, Ethiopia, [1978]; Soviet support for Ethiopian President Haile Mariam Mengistu, 1977-1978; the successful conclusion of Ethiopian operations against Somalia in the Ogaden desert, 1978; the Soviet decision to prevent a Cuban supported Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, 1978; Ethiopian operations against the Eritrean National Liberation Front in Eritrea, 1978; Chaplygin's relationship with President Mengistu, 1977-1978; the Soviet decision to support Ethiopia against Somalia, but not to deploy units of the Red Army, 1977; the importance of Cuban forces to the success of Ethiopian operations in Eritrea and against Somalia, 1977-1978; the strategic reasons for Soviet involvement in the Horn of Africa, 1977-1978. 37pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Boris Vardonovich Putilin, [Soviet diplomat, Angola, 1975-1976], relating to the Soviet reasons for involvement in Angola, 1975-1976; the socialist beliefs of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), 1975-1976; the distribution of Soviet military aid to Angola through Zambia and the Congo, 1975-1976; the celebrations in Luanda to celebrate Angola's independence from Portuguese rule, 10 Nov 1975; the acknowledgement of the MPLA as the legitimate Angolan government by the Organisation of African Unity, Feb 1976; Cuban involvement in Angola, 1975-1976; US aid for the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA), (1975-1976); the influence of third world conflicts on the policy of détente between the USA and the USSR, 1969-1975; the strategic importance of Soviet involvement in Africa, [1975-1980]; the fragility of the peace process in Angola, the Alvor accords, (1974); the Soviet supply of Katyusha rockets to Angola, [1976]; the Soviet reaction to incursions into Angola by Zairean and South African forces in support of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), [1976]; South African operations in Angola against the South West African People's Organisation for Namibia (SWAPO), 1966-1988; Soviet aid to the MPLA and to SWAPO, 1976-1988; the spread of Soviet inspired Communism in Africa, [1970-1989]; the Soviet decision not to deploy the Red Army to Angola, 1975-1976; the influence of Angola on future Soviet policy in Africa, 1976; the waning of Soviet influence in the Middle East, [1973-1980]; the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sponsorship of mercenaries to fight for the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) in Angola, 1975-1976. 33pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Karen Brutents, Deputy Head of the International Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, [1980], relating to the importance of the Middle East in Soviet Foreign Policy, [1965-1980]; the supply of Soviet arms to Egypt prior to the Six Day War, Jun 1967, and the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; the Soviet reaction to the loss of Arab territory to Israel during the Six Day War, Jun 1967; the first use of the US/Soviet 'hotline' and the threat by Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Soviet Prime Minister, of Soviet military intervention in the Middle East, Jun 1967; the supply of Soviet military aid to Syria and Egypt, 1967-1973; the contribution of Soviet military aid to People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) forces during the conflict in Angola, 1975-1976; the impact of the MPLA victory on Soviet policy of intervention in third world conflicts; relations between the USSR, Somalia and Ethiopia; USSR support for Ethiopia following its invasion by Somali forces, 1977-1978; and USSR foreign policy regarding intervention in China and Afghanistan. 51pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Gen Vadim Alekseyevich Kirpichenko, former KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastny, the Soviet Committee for State Security) Officer, and Deputy Chief, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, [1996], relating to the strategic importance of the Middle East to the USSR, [1953-1973]; Soviet relations with Gamal Abd al-Nasser, President of Egypt, 1954-1970; Soviet economic and military aid to Egypt, 1954-1973; the Soviet supply of arms to Egypt prior to the Six Day War, Jun 1967; speculation on whether Soviet influence could have prevented Egyptian involvement in the Six Day War, Jun 1967; the Soviet reaction to the Israeli victory in the Six Day War, 1967; the visit of Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, Soviet Head of State, to Egypt and his opinion of Nasser, [1967]; the death of Nasser and his funeral, Cairo, Egypt, Sep 1970; the impact of Nasser's death on Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin, Sep 1970; the attempts by Muhammad Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, to ally Egypt with the USA, Apr 1971-1972; Kosygin's desire for the USSR and the USA to persuade Egypt and Israel to end the small scale clashes, border incidents and raids on each other's territory, 1969; the operational use of Soviet pilots in Egyptian Air Force units, 1969; the deployment of Soviet air defence units to Egypt, [1970-1971]; the expulsion, by Muhammad Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, of all Soviet military advisers from Egypt, 1972; the supply of Soviet military equipment to Egypt, 1972-1973; Soviet concerns at Egyptian preparations for the Yom Kippur War, 1973; the Soviet reaction to the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, 6 Oct 1973; the Soviet attempts to stop the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; the Soviet reaction to US arms deliveries to Israel, Oct 1973; the placement of the US armed forces on DefCon 3 (Defense Condition, Level 3), a heightened status of readiness for a possible nuclear conflict, during the Middle East crisis, 1973; speculation on the creation of a joint US-Soviet peacekeeping force for the Middle East, 1973; the atmosphere and conditions in Cairo, Egypt, during the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; Soviet arms supplies to Egypt, Oct 1973; the Arab-Israeli peace process following the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; the withdrawal of Soviet influence in Egypt, 1972-1973. 40pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Anna Vassilyevna Mikhailenko, Ukrainian dissident, relating to her involvement in the campaign against Soviet violations of human rights contained in the declaration of Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe 1975 Summit (Helsinki Final Act), to which the USSR was a signatory; her arrest (1980), and conditions during her imprisonment in a psychiatric prison in Kazan. 36pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Gen Anatoly [Antonivanovich] Gribkov, USSR First Deputy of General Staff, relating to the Soviet response to NATO deployment of MGM-31C Pershing II Short Range Battlefield Support Missiles in western Europe, Dec 1979; the decision of the USSR to send troops into Afghanistan, Dec 1979; the rise of the union movement Solidarity, in Poland; the significance of Poland in Soviet foreign policy; and events leading up to the imposition of martial law in Poland, 1981-1982. 29pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Nikolai Detinov, Soviet Defence Ministry, relating to negotiations between the Soviet Union and the US concerning arms limitation, and the deployment to of missiles within Europe during the 1970s, including the summit meeting between Carter and Brezhnev, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), 1974-1979; the Soviet response to US pressure to comply with the Helsinki Final Act, concerning protection of human rights. 27pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Petrovich Tarasenko, Soviet Foreign Ministry, relating to Soviet relations with Egypt during the conflict in the Middle East including the Six Day War, Jun 1967; the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973; provision of Soviet military aid to Egypt; the role of Henry Alfred Kissinger, US Secretary of State, 1973-1977, during negotiations for a ceasefire between Egypt and Israel, Oct 1973; Soviet policy on support for national liberation movements in third world countries; and Soviet-US relations during the presidency of James Earl Carter, 1977-1981. 36pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Karen Brutents, Deputy Head of the International Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, [1980], relating to US Soviet relation during the 1970s including the emphasis of James Earl Carter, US President, 1977-1981, on human rights issues; the deteriorating health of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party; the summit meeting between Carter and Brezhnev, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; Soviet policy on intervention in third world countries, especially Afghanistan. 17pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Gen Nikolai Sergeevich Leonov, KGB Intelligence Directorate, relating to Soviet US relations during the 1970s including the deployment of SS-20 'Saber' Mobile Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) by the USSR in Europe, 1974-1977 and the MGM-31C Pershing II Short Range Battlefield Support Missiles by NATO in western Europe, Dec 1979; Soviet response to dissidents in the USSR and the raising of human rights issues by James Earl Carter, US President, 1977-1981, following the Helsinki Final Act; Soviet intervention in Poland and the declaration of martial law in Poland, 1981-1982; and Soviet policy on conflicts in the Middle East, Angola, and the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia and Somalia). 43pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to US Soviet relation during the term of office of James Earl Carter, US President, 1977-1981, including negotiations about US and Soviet missile deployment; the summit meeting between Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, and Carter, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1979; US reaction to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, 1979; Soviet involvement in the conflict in the Middle East, and negotiation of the ceasefire between Israel and Egypt 1973. 42pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Koriagin, psychiatrist and Soviet dissident, relating to his protest against psychiatric abuse of Soviet dissidents, including his own arrest, conditions of imprisonment and hunger strikes. 21pp
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1997 Jun
Typescript transcript of interview with Victor Orekhov, KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastny, the Soviet Committee for State Security) Officer, 1971-1978, and political prisoner, (1978-1986), relating to his work in the KGB Fifth Service, responsible for responding to Soviet dissident and refuseniks, including surveillance techniques, and the use of psychiatric punishment; his disillusionment with the treatment of dissidents following the Helsinki Final Act, 1975, and protest against Soviet abuses of human rights; assisting dissidents; his arrest and imprisonment, 1978. 26pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Ivor Kovalchuk, Soviet Army conscript, relating to his experience in the fighting in Afghanistan [1979-1989]. 14pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Nikolai Movchan, Soviet Army conscript 1982, relating to his experience in the war in Afghanistan [1979-1989]. 8pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Artyom Borovik, Russian journalist and author, relating to Soviet attitudes to the war in Afghanistan, including ignorance of Soviet invasion; Soviet perceptions of US involvement in the war; his experience of moral and discipline in the Soviet forces; Soviet censorship of news about the Afghanistan war, 1979-1989. 29pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Yevgeni Khrushchev, Soviet Army officer, relating to his role in the department of Special Propaganda in the Soviet Army occupying Afghanistan [1983], including his training and experiences during the war in Afghanistan, 1979-1989, and the psychological impact of the war on Soviet soldiers there. 19pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Maria Kovshura, mother of Soviet Army conscript killed in the Afghanistan war 1979-1989, relating to the secrecy and later propaganda concerning the Soviet Army involvement in Afghanistan; social conditions in the USSR; and news of her son's death. 15pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Ludmila Shtepa, mother of Soviet Army conscript killed in Afghanistan, 1985, relating to her son's posting to Afghanistan; the secrecy and lack of information about the Soviet involvement in Afghanistan; news of her son's death. 9pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Valentin Varennikov, deputy head of the Soviet General Staff from 1979-1984, relating to the Soviet attitude to Afghanistan; including the government under Nur Mohammad Taraki, President of the Revolutionary Council, Apr 1978-Sep 1979, and Hafizullah Amin, President of the Revolutionary Council, Sep-Dec 1979; the decision to send Soviet troops the Afghanistan; the course of the Afghan War, 1979-1989; the decision to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan, (1986); the policies of Gorbachev. Also comments on the shooting down of the Korean Air Lines Flight 007, over Soviet airspace, Aug 1983. 31pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov, Head of KGB (Soviet State Security), 1988-1991, relating to Soviet relations with the Afghanistan government, 1978-1979; the decision to send Soviet troops to Afghanistan, 1979; the Soviet attitude to US involvement in Afghanistan, and the Soviet decision to withdraw their forces from Afghanistan, (1986). 18pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Col Alexander Morozov, relating to Soviet intelligence concerning event in Afghanistan including the operations of the government under Nur Mohammad Taraki, President of the Revolutionary Council, Apr 1978-Sep 1979, and Hafizullah Amin, President of the Revolutionary Council, Sep-Dec 1979; and the decision to send the Soviet army to Afghanistan, 1979. 16pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Karen Brutents, Deputy Head of the International Department of the Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, [1980], relating to the Soviet involvement in the war in Afghanistan, 1979-1989, including the Soviet attitude to Nur Mohammad Taraki, President of the Revolutionary Council, Apr 1978-Sep 1979, and Hafizullah Amin, President of the Revolutionary Council, Sep-Dec 1979; Soviet suspicions of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) involvement in Afghanistan; the decision to occupy Afghanistan, 1979; and the decision of Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1985-1991, to withdraw the Soviet Army from Afghanistan, (1986). 14pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Vasily Safronchuk, Soviet Diplomat relating to his posting to Afghanistan, 1979, and the Soviet response to political developments in Afghanistan, including the murder of Nur Mohammad Taraki, President of the Revolutionary Council, Apr 1978-Sep 1979; the role of Soviet advisors in Afghanistan; the decision to send Soviet forces to Afghanistan, 1979; and the eventual withdrawal of Soviet Force, 1989. 24pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Sofia Zhuravleva, mother of Soviet Army conscript killed in the Afghanistan war 1979-1989, relating to the secrecy concerning the Soviet Army involvement in Afghanistan; and news of her son's death; and his burial. 11pp
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1997 Aug
Typescript transcript of interview with Yevgeni Morozov, Soviet army officer, relating to his experiences in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation, 1979-1989, including conditions faced by Soviet soldiers, and the brutality of the war. 22pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Nikolai Leonov, KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastny, the Soviet Committee for State Security) Department of Analysis and Information and Soviet Embassy Mexican Embassy, relating to the Soviet relations with South American communists including the government of Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala 1951-1954; the government of Salvador Allende, President of Chile, 1970-1973; and the Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua, [1978-1981]. 21pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Sergo Mikoyan, son of Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, relating to Soviet attitudes to Latin American nations, including Mikoyan's his father's visit to Cuba, 1960; the career of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentinian communist revolutionary and Cuban Minister for Industries, [1959-1962; and the provision of Soviet military aid to communist forces in Nicaragua. 17pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Petrovich Tarasenko, Soviet Foreign Ministry, relating to Soviet foreign policy and relations with the US including the involvement of the Soviet Union in the revolutionary movements in South America; the Soviet reaction to US foreign policy during the term of office of Ronald Reagan, US President, 1981-1989; and relations between Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister, 1985-1990, and George Shultz US Secretary of State,1982-1989. 29 pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Larisa Prokhorova, Russian student, relating to the changes in Soviet society following the appointment of Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1985-1991, and the reaction of the people to his policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). 10pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Andrei Pavlov, Russian student, relating to changes in Soviet life and news reporting following the appointment of Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1985-1991 and the impact of his policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). 5pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Anatoly Sergeyevich Cherniayev, assistant to Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1985-1991, relating to Gorbachev's foreign policies and recognition of the need for reform within the Soviet political system, including his meeting with Margaret Hilda Thatcher, British Prime Minister 1979-1990, 1984; the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, Apr 1986; the Nineteenth Party Congress, 1988; Soviet relations with the Reagan administration, and the decision to withdraw Soviet forces from Afghanistan, 1988. 17pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Vladimir Semiechastny, Chairman of KGB (Soviet Security Service), 1961-1967, relating to Soviet relations with communist movements in South America. 16pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, and President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1988-1991, relating to his policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness) during his term of office, the end of the cold war and the implication on relations with the west and the Warsaw Pact countries. 21pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Gennadi Osipovich, Soviet air force pilot, relating to his role in the shooting down of Korean Air Lines flight 007, over Soviet airspace, Aug 1983; Soviet air force training; his attitude to reforms in the Soviet Unions introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991. 10pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1949-1952, and Soviet Ambassador to the USA, 1962-1986, relating to Soviet relations with the US during the 1980s including their reaction to the election of Ronald Regan as US President, 1981; circumstances surrounding the shooting down of Korean Air Lines flight 007, over Soviet airspace, Aug 1983; reforms in the Soviet Union introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, and their impact on the end of the cold war; and the Soviet policy on Afghanistan. 23pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Igor Kurdin, Soviet submarine officer and author, relating to the sinking of the K-219 SSMN, Soviet submarine, apparently following a collision with USS Augusta, Oct 1986. 8pp
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[1997 Aug]
Typescript transcript of interview with Nina Andreyeva, chemistry teacher at the Leningrad Soviet Technological Institute, relating to her article in Sovetskaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia), 13 Mar 1988, criticising Gorbachev's policy of perestroika (reform). 11pp
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1997 Sep 5
Typescript transcript of interview with Prof Roald Sagdeev, Director of Vlatch Institute [Soviet Space programme] relating to the change in the Soviet political administration under Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, including the Soviet response to the announcement by US President Ronald Reagan of his Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), 1983; Dagdeev's attitude to Gorbachev's appointment as General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1985; and increasing openness in Soviet government. 21pp
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1997 Sep
Typescript transcript of interview with Ambassador Oleg Darushenko, Soviet Diplomat, and Cuban Section, Central Committee of Soviet Communist Party responsible for Cuban relations, [1965-1988], relating to Soviet relations with South American communist movement including Fidel Castro, Premier of Cuba, 1959-1976; Salvador Allende (Gossens), President of Chile, 1970-1973; the Nicaraguan Sandinista Front; and the government of Grenada. 20pp
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1997 Oct
Typescript transcript of interview with Yuri Pavlov, relating to, Soviet diplomat, Ambassador to Costa Rica and Chile, and Head of Soviet Foreign Ministry Latin American Division, 1987-1990, relating to Soviet foreign policy in relation to South American nations including the Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Grenada. 23pp
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1997 Oct
Typescript transcript of interview with Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister, Jul 1985-Dec 1990, and Nov-Dec 1991, and President of Georgia, 1991-[1997], relating to the USSR under the leadership of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1964-1982; the policies on US/Soviet relations and arms reduction introduced by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991; Gorbachev's reformist foreign policy and its relation to arms reduction and to Soviet internal politics, 1985-1991; the influence of the Soviet economy on Gorbachev's foreign policy decisions, 1985-1991; Shevardnadze's relationship with George Pratt Shultz, US Secretary of State, 1982-1989; Soviet disengagement from Afghanistan, 1987-1989; the supply of Soviet arms to the regime of Afghan President Gen Mohammad Najibullah, 1987-1992; the Soviet/US agreement on Afghanistan, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov 1990; the Soviet decision not to interfere militarily in Eastern Europe, 1989-1990; the political and economic reforms in Hungary, 1989-1990; the reopening of the borders between Hungary and Austria, 2 May 1989; the Soviet acceptance of talks between Polish President Gen Wojciech (Witold) Jaruzelski, and Lech Walesa, Chairman of the Solidarity Union, Jan 1989; the influence of the USSR in the removal of Erich Honecker as head of state in the German Democratic Republic, Oct 1989; the demolition of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the borders between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, Nov 1989; Shevardnadze's opinion on the survival of socialism in Eastern Europe, 1991-1997; the election of US President George (Herbert Walker) Bush and the effect on Soviet/US relations, 1989; Shevardnadze's concerns on the future security of Europe, 1997; Gorbachev's opposition to the independence of the former Soviet republics, 1991; Shevardnadze's support for the independence of Georgia, Aug 1991; 'Bloody Sunday', the death of fourteen Lithuanians during the storming of public buildings by Soviet troops, Vilnius, Lithuania, 13 Jan 1991; the dissolution of the Communist Party of the USSR, 29 Aug 1991; approval by the USSR, the USA and the United Nations (UN) for military intervention against Iraq following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Aug 1990; the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, 1989-1990; Shevardnadze's opinion on the legacy of the Cold War, 1991-1997. 22pp
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1997 Nov
Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Yakovlev, advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, relating to the political reforms in the Soviet Union during Gorbachev's term of office of; including the Malta Summit meeting with US President George Herbert Walker Bush, Dec 1989; independence movements in the Baltic States, 1990; the abolition of the 6th Article of the Soviet constitution allowing the creation of new political parties; popular dissatisfaction with reform in the USSR; and the attempted coup d'etat against Gorbachev, Aug 1991. 18pp
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1997 Nov
Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rutskoi, Russian Vice President, 1991, relating to the political and economic reforms in the Soviet Union during Gorbachev's term of office 1985-1991, including the increasing popularity of Boris Yeltsin; the attempted coup d'etat against Gorbachev, Dec 1991, and Gorbachev's resignation. 15pp
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1998 Jan
Typescript transcript of interview with Col Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, Soviet KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastny, the Soviet Committee for State Security) Officer, 1962-1985, relating to the role of the KGB during the Cold War, 1953-1990; Gordievsky's commitment to the role of the KGB at the height of the Cold War, 1962-1963; the spread, via the KGB, of Soviet influence throughout the world, 1953-1990; how KGB operations could enable the USSR to win the Cold War, 1962-1985; the role of the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye), the Soviet Military Intelligence Service, during the Cold War, 1953-1990; KGB and GRU operations in the UK, the USA and France, [1962-1985]; the effectiveness of intelligence gathering techniques of the KGB and GRU, 1962-1985; the useful intelligence that could be gathered from western newspapers, magazines and journals, 1962-1985; the expulsion of 105 Soviet agents from London, UK, by the British Government, 1971; the influence of the major spies, such as Oleg Penkovsky, Dmitri Polyakov, George Blake (Georgy Ivanovich Behar) and Harold 'Kim' Philby, on the Cold War, 1945-1989; Gordievsky's opinion of Penkovsky, executed by the Soviets for treason, Oct 1962; the influence of other defectors on Gordievsky's decision to spy for the West, 1973; Gordievsky's defection to the West, 1985; the background to the reasons why Soviet GRU Gen Dmitri Polyakov spied for the USA, 1961-[1981]; the treatment by the KGB of captured Soviet spies who worked for the USA, [1962-1989]; intelligence provided by the KGB and the GRU on the US development of 'smart' weapons and the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), [1983-1985]; the Aldrich Ames case, [1986]; Gordievsky's arrest and imprisonment by the KGB, May-Jul 1985; the role of intelligence gathering agencies in preventing war, [1953-1989]. 33pp
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1998 Jan
Typescript transcript of interview with Gen Oleg Kalugin, Soviet security service (KGB) officer, 1958-1987, relating to his career in the KGB; his activities in the Soviet Embassy, Washington, US; and the operation of the KGB throughout the Cold War. 32pp
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[1997 Dec]
Typescript transcript of interview with Mikhail Kudriavtsev, Soviet émigré parachuted into Russia to spy for the CIA, 1953, relating to his CIA training, aims of their mission, arrival in the Byerlorus, USSR, and capture by the KGB, interrogation, propaganda press conferences, 1953, 1957. 24pp
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[1997 Dec]
Typescript transcript of interview with Mikhail Lyubimov, KGB (Soviet Security service) intelligence officer, relating to the operation of the KGB, exaggerations in intelligence reporting. 26pp
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[1997 Dec]
Typescript transcript of interview with Sergei Kondrashev, former Soviet Intelligence chief in Berlin, and London, relating to his career in KGB, 1947-19 , the operation of the KGB, and the activities of George Blake, British intelligence officer working for the KGB, 1953-1961. 31pp
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[1997 Dec]
Typescript transcript of interview with Sergey Baranovski, relating to the establishment of the Green Cross International, a Russian environmental organisation, 1992, and the effect of waste from nuclear and chemical weapons, in Siberia, and cost of destroying obsolete weapons. 6pp
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[1997 Dec]
Typescript transcript of interview with Aleksandr Zagvozdin, KGB Gen Major, relating to his role as head of the investigation of Oleg Penkovsky, arrested, 22Oct 1962, for spying for the British intelligence service, the arrest of Greville Wynne, his British colleague, and the case of Dmitri Polyakov, KGB double agent working for the US Central Intelligence Agency, 1961-[1981]. 26pp
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1996 May
Typescript transcript of interview with Vietnamese Col Dinh Cong Ty, former Viet Minh and NVA (North Vietnamese Army) officer, 1953-1991, relating to the Indo-China and Vietnam Wars, 1953-1975; the creation of the Ho Chi Minh Trail as a supply line between North and South Vietnam, May 1959; Ty's service as a truck driver on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1965-[1975]; preparations for the Tet offensive, South Vietnam, 1967-1968; Ty's Viet Minh service against the French in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Indo-China, 1953-1954. 13pp
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1996 May
Typescript transcript of interview with Tong Viet Duong, former Viet Minh and NVA (North Vietnamese Army) officer, 1945-[1975], and NVA adviser to the Viet Cong, South Vietnam, [1963-1975], relating to Duong's service with the Viet Cong, South Vietnam, 1966; the Tet offensive, Jan-Feb 1968; the Viet Cong and NVA attack on the US Embassy, Saigon, during the Tet offensive, Jan 1968; the capture of Saigon by the NVA, Apr 1975. 16pp
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1996 May
Typescript transcript of interview with Tran Bach Dang, Viet Cong leader in Saigon, [1968-1975], relating to US involvement in Vietnam, [1961]-1975; the importance of the Tet offensive as a turning point in the Vietnam War, Jan-Feb 1968; the unpopularity of the regime of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, 1955-1963; the first deployment of US ground forces to Vietnam, 1965; combat in the Iron Triangle, an area between Ben Suc, Ben Cat and the Saigon River, and Cu Chi, South Vietnam, 1967-1968; the supply of war materials from North Vietnam to South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1959-1975; the uprising against South Vietnamese President Diem's regime, 1960; Viet Cong opposition to the administration of Gen Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam, 1967-1975; the objectives of the Tet offensive, 1968; the capture of Saigon by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army), 30 Apr 1975; the restoration of diplomatic relations between the USA and Vietnam, 1995. 15pp
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1996 May
Typescript transcript of interview with Bui Van Tung, former NVA (North Vietnamese Army) soldier, 1975, relating to the capture of Saigon by the NVA, Apr 1975; the arrest of South Vietnamese President Gen Duong Van Minh, Saigon, Apr 1975; the announcement by President Minh of the South Vietnamese capitulation, Apr 1975. 9pp
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1996 May
Typescript transcript of interview with Vietnamese Gen Vo Nguyen Giap, relating to the Vietnamese victory over the French at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954; the Geneva peace conference between Vietnamese and French delegations to end the Indo-China War, 1954; the partition of Vietnam on the seventeenth parallel of latitude, 1954; the creation of the Viet Cong to oppose the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of the Republic of Vietnam, 1960; the conflict in South Vietnam between President Diem's armed forces and the Viet Cong, 1960-1963; the creation of the Ho Chi Minh Trail as a supply line between North and South Vietnam, May 1959; the first deployment of US ground forces to Vietnam, 1965; the economic and military support given to North Vietnam by the USSR and the People's Republic of China, 1965-1975; the official visit by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai to Hanoi, North Vietnam, 1964; the belief that the Vietnam War was a proxy conflict between the superpowers, 1965-1975; the rumour that John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State, 1953-1959, offered France US atomic bombs to use in Indo-China following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, 1954; speculation on the possible use of US nuclear weapons in Vietnam, 1965-1975; the Battle of Khe Sanh, Jan-Apr 1968; the importance of the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the North Vietnamese war effort, 1959-1975; the Battles of Thanh mountain, Van Tuong and Na Trang, [1965]; the US bombing of North Vietnam, Mar 1965-Nov 1968, and 1972; the Tet offensive, Jan-Feb 1968; the Vietnamese victory against the USA and South Vietnamese forces in the Vietnam War, 1975; Giap's opinion of US Presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969, and Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974, and of Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968, and Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger, US Secretary of State, 1973-1977; the impact of the Vietnam War on the future foreign policy of the USA, 1975-1996. 38pp (two versions)
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1996 May
Typescript transcript of interview with Kim Ngoc Quang, NVA (North Vietnamese Army) soldier and truck driver on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, [1964-1975], relating to Quang's service driving supplies along the Ho Chi Minh Trail prior to the Tet offensive, 1967-1968; US Boeing B-52 Stratofortress raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1967-1968; the capture of Saigon by the NVA, Apr 1975. 9pp
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1996 May
Typescript transcript of interview with Truong Tuong Vi, NVA (North Vietnamese Army) singer tasked with entertaining the troops ferrying supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, [1965-1975], relating to US bombing raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, [1965-1972]; the boost to morale that entertainment gave to NVA troops, [1965-1975]. 5pp
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1996 May
Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Nguyen Van Ich, NVA (North Vietnamese Army) doctor, Vietnam, 1962-1970, relating to Ich's service during the Vietnam War, 1962-1970; the use of Agent Orange by US forces to defoliate the jungle, South Vietnam, Jan 1965-Apr 1970. 13pp
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1996 Jun 4
Typescript transcript of interview with Tran Van Dinh, Vietnamese diplomat [1954-1964] and Vietnamese Charge d'Affairs in the US, relating to he character and career of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Republic of South Vietnam, 1955-1963, including Diem's appointment as President, 1954; Vietnamese relations with the US; Dinh's visit to Israel for talks with their defence experts, 1958; US policy on Vietnam and US domestic political pressure on US policy and its impact on policy in Vietnam. 31pp
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1996 Jun 4
Typescript transcript of interview with Bui Diem, South Vietnam opposition politician, South Vietnam Ambassador to the US, [1966- ], relating to his assessment of the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Republic of South Vietnam, 1955-1963; the role of the US government in the coup d'etat which overthrew the government of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1963; his involvement in the South Vietnamese government and censorship of information concerning the arrival US and allied land forces in Vietnam, 1965; Bui Diem's appointment as Ambassador to the US, 1966, and contact with William Putnam Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for Far East Affairs 1964-1969, and Walt Whitman Rostow, Special assistant to the US President, 1966-1969; visits of Robert Strange McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968, to South Vietnam, 1963 and 1965; the impact of the US presidential election on the Paris Peace talks on Vietnam, 1968; the impact of US policy on Vietnam on the US Presidential election, 1968; the US and South Vietnamese reaction to the North Vietnamese Tet offensive, 1967-1968. 23pp
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1997 Mar 28
Typescript transcript of interview with Nha Duc Hoang, Press Secretary, Chief of Staff and Minister for Information to President Nguyen Van Thieu, Republic of South Vietnam, 1967-1975, relating to President Thieu's opinion of US President Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969; Thieu's awareness of the anti-Vietnam War sentiment in the USA, 1968-1969; student protests and mass demonstrations against the US involvement in the Vietnam War, Washington DC, USA, 1968-1969; the meeting between Thieu and Nixon, Midway Island, Pacific Ocean, 1969; the US 'Vietnamisation' programme, the gradual withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam coupled with an increased role for the armed forces of the Republic of South Vietnam, Jun 1969-1973; the South Vietnamese government's knowledge of the peace negotiations between the USA and North Vietnam, Paris, France, 1969-1972; the reaction of President Thieu to the draft peace agreement agreed between the USA and North Vietnam, Oct 1972; the exclusion of President Thieu from the peace negotiations, 1972; Thieu's opinion that Dr Henry Alfred Kissinger, US National Security Adviser, 1970-1972, was concentrating on the possibility of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize instead of negotiating a fair peace settlement for the Republic of South Vietnam, 1972; the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the chief of the North Vietnamese negotiating team, 1973; the signing, by the government of the Republic of South Vietnam, of a revised peace settlement, Jan 1973; the influence of the Watergate scandal and the resignation of US President Nixon on the USA's failure to support the Republic of South Vietnam during the North Vietnamese invasion, [1975]; Thieu's opinion of US President Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977; the lack of support for the Republic of South Vietnam in the US Congress, 1974-1975; US involvement in Hoang's resignation as Minister of Information, Republic of South Vietnam, Nov 1974; the takeover of the Republic of South Vietnam by North Vietnam, 1975; President Thieu and Hoang's sense of betrayal caused by the US withdrawal from and abandonment of the Republic of South Vietnam, 1973-1975; Hoang's opinion of the US involvement in the politics and war in Vietnam, 1961-1975; the influence of the US Presidential election on the Vietnamese peace process, 1972. 22pp
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1997 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Lawrence Freedman, Professor or War Studies, King's College London, John Lewis Gaddis, Robert Lovett Professor of History at Yale, and Vladeslav Zubok, historian and research fellow at the National Security Archive, Washington, principal historical consultants to the Cold War documentary series producers, discussing the nature of the Cold War. 28pp
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1997 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies, King's College London, relating to the causes, danger and demise of the Cold War. 6pp
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1997 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with John Lewis Gaddis, Robert Lovett Professor of History at Yale, relating to the causes, danger and demise of the Cold War. 10pp
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1997 Dec
Typescript transcript of interview with Vladeslav Zubok, historian and research fellow at the National Security Archive, Washington, relating to the causes, danger and demise of the Cold War. 12pp
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[1995-1996]
'Programme 1, Western interviews'. Includes thematic indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 1 Comrades: 1917-1945, and brief content indices and annotated copies of transcripts of interviews with Alfred Aronson, George Elsey, James Griffith, Kathleen Harriman Mortimer, Jim Kane, George Kennan, Hugh Lunghi, Frank Roberts and Prof Robert Tucker.
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[1995-1996]
'Programme 1, Russian transcripts'.Includes brief content indices of transcripts of interviews with Soviet citizens relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 1 Comrades: 1917-1945, and annotated copies of transcripts of interviews with Sergo Beria, Alexander Gordayev, Yevgeni Khaldei, Wolfgang Leonhard, Luibov Kozinchenko, Ivan Legchilin, Aishe and Fadime Memedshanova, Ernst Niezvestny, David Ortenberg, Vladimir Yerofeyev, and Victoria Zlobina.
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[1995-1996]
'Interviews programme 2'.Includes copies of annotated transcripts and extracts from transcripts of interviews relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 2 Iron Curtain: 1945-1947, including interviews with Alfred Aronson, George Elsey, Prof J K Galbraith, George F Kennan, Sir Frank Roberts, and Prof R Tucker. Also contains brief contents lists for the Roberts transcript.
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[1995-1996]
'Programme 2 Russian interviews'.Includes copies of extracts of transcripts, annotated transcripts and brief transcript content indices for interviews with Soviet citizens relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 2 Iron Curtain: 1945-1957, including Alexander Gordeyev, Yevgeni Khaldei, Konstantin Koval, Luibov Kozinchenko, Lev Mischenko, Vladimir Yerofeyev, Victoria Zlobina, and Lev Kopelev.
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[1995-1996]
File of copies of transcripts, extracts of transcripts, annotated transcripts and brief transcript content indices for interviews relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 4 Berlin: 1948-1949, including interviews with Noël Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan (Lord Annan), Ella Barowsky, Clark Clifford, Edloe Donan, Gale Halvorsen, Wg Cdr Donald Hanson, Christine Heimlich, Sir Freddie Laker, Wolfgang Leonhard, Robert Lochner, Karl Mautner, Paul Nitze, Sir Frank Roberts, Etza Reuter, Hildegard Herrberger, Heinz Weber, and Stefan Doernberg.
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[1995-1996]
'Russian language interviews, Berlin 1948-1948, programme 4'.File of annotated transcripts of interviews with Russian speaking eyewitnesses of events relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 4 Berlin 1948-1949, including interviews with Mikhail Semiryaga, Vladimir Yerofeyev, Yakov Drabkin, and, Konstantin Koval.
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[1995-1996]
File of annotated transcripts of interviews relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 7 After Stalin: 1953-1957, including interviews with Charles Wheeler, Robert Bowie, Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Flora Lewis, S Peter Karlow, Robert Lochner, Martha Mautner, Jan Nowak, Alfred Berlin, Wilhelm Grewe, Werner Herbig, Heinz Homuth, Etza Reuter, Fritz Schenk, Karl Eduard von Schnitzler, Klaus Schutz, and Karl Schirdewan.
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[1996-1997]
File of annotated transcripts and extracts of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 9 The wall: 1958-1963, including interviews with Yuli Kvitsinsky, Col Jim Atwood, Egon Bahr, Dr Rainer Barzel, Willi Bickel, Hermann Borchert, McGeorge Bundy, Anatoly Dobrynin, Werner Eberlein, Valentin Falin, Brigitte Flunker, Dr Raymond Leonard Garthoff, Gen Andrew Goodpaster, Anatoly Gribkov, Stefan Heym, Ella Hofer, Margit Hosseini, Marga Karstens, Hagen Koch, Flora Lewis, Robert Lochner, Robert Strange McNamara, Martha Mautner, Maria Pelchen, Walt Whitman Rostow, Conrad Schumann, Klaus Schutz, Oleg Troyanovski, and Georgy Volkov.
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1996-1997
File of annotated transcripts and extracts of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 9 The wall: 1958-1963, including interviews with Peter Florin, Pierre Salinger, Wilhelm Grewe, John Mapother, George F Kennan, Gen Andrew Goodpaster, Robert Lochner, Robert Strange McNamara, Martha Mautner, Walt Whitman Rostow, Anatoly Dobrynin, Valentin Falin, Anatoly Gribkov, Yuli Kvitsinsky, Sergei Khrushchev, Oleg Troyanovski, Egon Bahr, Dr Rainer Barzel, Hermann Borchert, Brigitte Flunker, Stefan Heym, Ella Hofer, Conrad Schumann, Klaus Schutz, Willi Bickel, Werner Eberlein, Peter Florin, Hagen Koch, Maria Pelchen, Sir Frank Roberts.
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1996-1997
File of annotated transcripts and extracts of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 10 Cuba: 1959-1963, including interviews with Ambassador Alexsandr Ivanovich Alekseyev, Anatoly Bondarev, Nikolay Bieloborodov, Grigory Danilevich, Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Aleksandr Feklisov, Boris Goncharov, Gen Anatoly Gribkov, and Oleg Troyanovski.
[ COLDWAR: 31/11]
1996
'Vietnam transcripts 1'.File of annotated interview transcripts, and extracts of transcripts, relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 11 Vietnam: 1954-1968, including interviews with Paula Hixenbaugh, Jack Joseph Valenti, Daniel Ellsberg, George Forrest, Bui Diem, Morton Halperin, Gen William Westmoreland, Adm James Bond Stockdale, Gen Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, Country Joe McDonald, Walt Whitman Rostow, Roger Hilsman, Philip Caputo, and Robert Strange McNamara.
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1996
'Vietnam transcripts 2, Vietnamese and Russian'.File of annotated interview transcripts, and extracts of transcripts, relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 11 Vietnam: 1954-1968, including interviews with Anatoly Dobrynin, Igor Yershov, Igor Ognietov, Oleg Troyanovski, Dinh Cong Ty (Vietnamese with English translation), Tong Viet Duong, Tran Bach Dang, Bui Van Tung, Gen Vo Nguyen Giap, Kim Ngoc Quang, Truong Tuong Vi, and English translation of Vietnamese songs by Huang Hiep.
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1996-1997
File of annotated transcripts and extracts of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 12 Mad: 1960-1972, including interviews with Nikolay Nikolaevich Detinov, Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Alexei Kalashnikov, Gennady Serusevich Kudriavtsev, Valentin Larionov, Mikhail Mokrinsky, Vassily Ambrosovich Poliakov, Maria Stepanova, Yuri Vsevolovich Vontintsev, and Nikolay Idalich Usenko.
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1996-1997
File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 14 Red Spring: 1960s, including interviews with Marta Bistrovova, Milos Forman, Zdenek Mylnar, Eva Zidkova, Pavel Kohont, Vera Chytilova, Victor Konshin, Petr Sinchenkov, Vasil Bilak, Milos Forman, Eduard Goldstucker, Vaclav Havel.
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1996-1997
File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 14 China: 1949-1972, including interviews with John Paton Davies, Marshall Green, Marvin Liebman, Robert Bowie, Winston Lord, Tim Boggan, Stepan Chervonenko, Ivan Arkhipov, Oleg Vaskov, Fedor Mochulski, Lev Deluisin, Petr Sinchenkov, Nikolai Fedorenko, Chen Youwei, Wu Ningkun, Liu Binyan, Su Shaozhi, Ruan Ming, and Ge Yang.
[ COLDWAR: 31/16]
1997
'Russian interviews'.File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 17 Good guys, bad guys: 1967-1978, including interviews with Victor Israelyan, Vadim Alekseyevich Kirpichenko, Boris Vardonovich Putilin, Petr Vassilevich Chaplygin, Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Karen Brutents, Nikolay Sergeevich Leonov, and Sergei Petrovich Tarasenko.
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1996-1997
'US interviews'.File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 17 Good guys, bad guys: 1967-1978, including interviews with Nathaniel Davis, Henry Alfred Kissinger, Robert Strange McNamara, Edward Mulcahy, Joseph Sisco, John Stockwell, David Tomkins, Paul Bernard, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and James Earl Carter.
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1997
'Africans and Cubans'.File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 17 Good guys, bad guys: 1967-1978, including interviews with Roelof Frederik (Pik) Botha, Jan Breytenbach, Constand Viljoen, Ruth Mendes, Lucio Lara, Gen Xieto (Jocu Luis Neto), Holden Roberto, Jaka Jamba, Fidel Castro, Jorges Risquet, Armando Saucedo, Rene Hernandez Gatorno, Zonia Ramos, and Ebelio Pacheco,
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1997
'Arabs and Jews'.File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 17 Good guys, bad guys: 1967-1978, including interviews with Abba Eban, Simcha Dinitz, Gen Avraham Adan, David Rubinger, Gen Saad El Din El Shazly, Mohamed Sid Ahmed, and Abdel Moneim Qenawi.
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1996-1998
File of annotated interview transcripts, and extracts of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 23 The wall comes down: 1989, including interviews with Zbigniew Bujak, George Herbert Walker Bush, James Addison Baker III, Condoleezza Rice, Anatoly Sergeyevich Cherniayev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Vyacheslav Kochemasov, Ivan Kuzmin, Igor Macimytchev, George Shaknazarov, Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, Carsten Baum, Conny Hauschuman, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Horst Teltschik, Frank-Joachim Herrmann, Stefan Heym, Tobias Hollitzer, Gisela Kallenbach, Egon Krenz, Jochen Laessig, Monika Langenhan, Wolfgang Schade, Guenter Schabowski, Birgit Spannaus, Lothar Stein, Roland Wotzel, Erzebet Hrozova, Maria Kovacs, Miklos Nemeth, Imre Pozsgay, Miklos Jakes, and Martin Mejstrik.
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1997-1998
'Programme 24 US Interviews'.File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 24 Conclusions: 1989-1991, including interviews with James Addison Baker III, George Herbert Walker Bush, Tom Grumbly, Condoleezza Rice, John F Sigler, George Shultz, Stansfield Turner, Lawrence Freedman, John Lewis Gaddis, Vlad Zubok, Miklos Jakes, Vaclav Havel, Marta Kubisova, Martin Mejstrik, Mircea Dinescu, Doina Maria Zamfirescu, and Balazs Barabas.
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1997
'Programme 24 Soviet Interviews'File of annotated interview transcripts, extracts of transcripts, and brief content indices of transcripts relating to the Cold War television documentary Episode 24 Conclusions: 1989-1991, including interviews with Sergey Baranovsky, Anatoly Sergeyevich Cherniayev, Anatoly Dobrynin, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Valeri Kamshilov, Vladimir Kruichkov, Tatiana Prikhozhan, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rutskoi, Georgi Shaknazarov, Eduard Shevardnadze, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Loreta Truichiliskaite, Lucijia Girdvainiene, Horst Teltschik, Hans Dietrich Genscher, Gisela Kallenbach, Egon Krenz, J Laessig, Lothar Stein, Roland Wotzel, and Miklos Nemeth.
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1997
Manuscript notes and memoranda relating to Episode 1 of the Cold War television documentary series.
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1997 Mar 18
File relating to the Cold War television documentary series Episode 11 Vietnam: 1954-1968 including annotated copy of the 'picture lock script'.
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1996-1997
'Sex, lies and toupee tape, C4 equinox, transcripts and shot list, section 10 of post production file'. Including material relating to the Cold War television documentary series Episode 13 Make love not war (formerly titled All you need is love), including, list of interviewees, letters relating to progress of production; filming schedule for US, 28 Oct–8 Nov 1996; programme outline; chronology of relevant events, 1954-1970; bibliography and reviews of relevant publications; photocopied extract of biographical information; copies of letters to and contracts with interviewees.
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1997
'General and Scripts'.File relating to the Cold War television documentary series Episode 17 Good guys, bad guys: 1967-1978 (formerly titled Surrogates), including photocopies of programme content proposal, episode summaries of episode 1-23, Jeremy Isaacs' introduction to the documentary series, extracts from published works relating to the period, programme script, correspondence concerning production, edited episode scripts, comments on scripts for Episodes 7, 11, 13, 17, and 19, various editions of narrative text for episode 17.
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1997
'Programme 17 Final script, final narration, captions, credits and edit'.File relating to the Cold War television documentary series Episode 17 Good guys, bad guys: 1967-1978 (formerly titled Surrogates ), including the final scripts for Episode 17; list of captions images and interviewees; copy of text for end credits; manuscript notes relating to timing and sequence of images; notes on quotations to include; calculation of projected archive and stills royalties for episode 17; and English text for Russian interview extracts.
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1997
'Surrogates fact check stills, foreign language voice overs'.File relating to the Cold War television documentary series Episode 17 Good guys, bad guys: 1967-1978 (formerly titled Surrogates), including 'Narration Fact Check', 2 Dec 1997, 23 Jul 1997; photocopied extracts from reference works relating arms trade in the third world, US foreign assistance and aid to Israel, Arab-Israeli conflict, US-Soviet summit agreement, Camp David Framework for Peace in the middle East, civil war in Angola, Soviet military equipment; US Bureau of the Census International Data Base print outs relating to population statistics for middle east and African nations; photocopies of photographs of mercenary forces in Angola, and related facsimile and electronic mail correspondence; and transcripts of foreign language voice-over recordings for Episode 17.
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1977-1996
'Surrogates, background reading'File of photocopied extracts of published works relating to events examined in the Cold War television documentary series Episode 17 Good guys, bad guys: 1967-1978 (formerly titled Surrogates), relating to US and Soviet participation in the military conflicts in Angola, Chile, Cuba, Nicaragua and the Horn of Africa.
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files
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Jul 1995
Copy of detailed proposal for Cold War, a television history, by Jeremy Isaacs Productions, including episode summaries, episode storyline, list of possible interviewees and filming location. 92pp
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1995-1997
Documentation relating to the borrowing of publications for research from the British Library Document Supply Centre (BL DSC), and copy of BL DSC UK Customer Handbook, 7th Edition 1994.
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1997-1998
File of miscellaneous papers including copy of draft agreement with narrator for the Cold War television documentary series, 8 Oct 1997; photocopies of Turner Broadcasting System Inc. 'Records Transmittal sheet' for audio cassettes and files of the CNN production department; email relating to contact details for George Puckhaber, 13 May 1997; synopsis and overview of a documentary on Chicago Gangs: an American story proposed by Colorful Pictures Inc; copy of the 1998 Film Industry Guidance Notes, concerning Inland revenue requirements for film industry staff.
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[1996]
File containing list of audio cassettes of interviews relating to the Cold War, Oct 1995- Feb 1996, May-Jun 1996, and alphabetical list of [video] 'research tapes'.
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