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In Bulletin Issue 12/13: New Evidence on the End of the Cold War

New Evidence on the Soviet Factor in the Peaceful Revolutions of 1989 By Vladislav M. Zubok p. 5
One the Eve: A Glimpse Inside the Politburo at the End of 1988 p.24
The Tbilisi Massacre, April 1989: Documents p.31
Soviet Approaches to Eastern Europe at the Beginning of 1989 By Jacques Lévesque p.49
The Political Transition in Hungary, 1989-90 By Csaba Békés and Melinda Kalmár p.73
Hungarian Secret Police Memorandum, May 1989 p.88
Poland 1986-1989: From "Cooptation" to "Negotiated Revolution" By Pawel Machcewicz p.93
The Fall of the Wall: The Unintended Dissolution of East Germany's Ruling Regime By Hans-Hermann Hertle p.131
1989: Bulgarian Transition to Pluralist Democracy By Jordan Baev p.165
Czechoslovak November 1989 By Oldrich Tuma p.181
Czechoslovak Regime Documents on the Velvet Revolution p.194
"We Are the Opponents of Violence ... We Want to Live as Dignified and Free People" p.210
The Last Days of a Dictator By Mircea Munteanu p.217
At Historic Crossroads: Documents on the December 1989 Malta Summit p.229

New Evidence on the Cold War in Asia The Khrushchev-Mao Conversations, 31 July-3 August

1958 and 2 October 1959 By Vladislav M. Zubok p.243
Le Duan and the Break with China Introduction by Stein Třnnesson p.273
Document: "Comrade B on the Plot of the Reactionary Chinese Clique Against Vietnam Translated and Annotated by Christopher E. Goscha p.279

New Evidence on Cold War Military History Planning for Nuclear War: The Czechoslovak War Plan of 1964 By Petr Lűnák p.289
"Operation Atom" The Soviet Union's Stationing of Nuclear Missiles in the German Democratic Republic, 1959 By Matthias Uhl and Vladimir I. Ivkin p.299

New Evidence on the Iran Crisis 1945-46 From the Baku Archives p.309

New Evidence from the Former Yugoslav Archives The Tito-Khrushchev Correspondence, 1954 p.315

Research Notes and Conference Reports The Moldovan Communist Party Archives By Jim Hershberg p.325
Moldova, Romania and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia by Mark Kramer p.326
The Sino-Soviet Alliance: New Publications By David Wolff p.335
Policymakers and the Cold War's End: Micro and Macro Assessments of Contingency By Richard K. Herrman and Richard Ned Lebow p.337
Conference on Cold War Endgame By Fred I. Greenstein and William C. Wohlforth p.341
New Evidence on China, Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War: Conference Report By Priscilla Roberts p.345
Update on the Stasi Archives By Gary Bruce p.348
Western Intelligence Gathering and the Division of German Science By Paul Maddrell p.352
Letters to the Editor p.360 ___________________________________________________________________