Contents; Editors' Preface; Introductory Essay by Vojtech Mastny; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chronology of Events; Documents I. The Formative Years (Docs. 1-28) II. The Crisis (Docs. 29-61) III. The Alliance at Its Peak (Docs. 62-85) IV. The Incipient Decline (Docs. 86-121) V. Disintegration (Docs. 122-155) Main Actors; Bibliography; Index.
ABOUT THE EDITORS Vojtech Mastny is a Senior Fellow at the National Security Archive, where he coordinates the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (PHP). He has been a professor at Columbia University, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Boston University, and US Naval War College. His latest book, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity, won the American Historical Association's George L. Beer Prize. Malcolm Byrne is Director of Research at the National Security Archive. Serves as Editor of CEU Press National Security Archive Cold War Reader series, of which this volume is a part.
"By far the most ambitious and integral project in the burgeoning
field of Cold War history has been the Parallel History Project on
NATO and the Warsaw Pact, directed by Mastny. This is its early
culmination, a massive volume... Mastny's extended introductory
essay does more than survey the history."
*Foreign Affairs*
"An impressively extensive collection of original documents and
transcripts of the Warsaw Pact from its beginning in 1955 to its
dissolution in 1991. The two main themes in the documents is that
the Pact seemed to have no intention of a preemptive attack on
Western Europe. The other is that the Pact was not all as united as
outside observers believed. This is a great book for historians and
for anyone else who is interested in this subject."
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