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Cold War International History Project Working Paper Series The CWIHP Working Paper Series is designed to provide a speedy outlet for historians who have gained access to newly-available archives and sources and would like to share their results. The CWIHP Working Paper Series is edited by Christian F. Ostermann and Mircea Munteanu, and is supported generously by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, other foundations, and private donations from individuals and corporations. Arming Nonalignment: Yugoslavia's Relations with Burma and the Cold War in Asia (1950-1955) CWIHP Working Paper #61 Author: Jovan Cavoski Download File (pdf) The Blind Leading the Blind: Soviet Advisors, Counter-Insurgency and Nation-Building in Afghanistan CWIHP Working Paper #60 Author: Artemy Kalinovsky Download File (pdf) The Kuklinski Files and the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981: An Analysis of the Newly Released CIA Documents on Ryszard Kuklinski CWIHP Working Paper #59 Author: Mark Kramer Download File (pdf) Exploiting and Securing the Open Border in Berlin: The Western Secret Services, the Stasi, and the Second Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961 CWIHP Working Paper No. 58 Author: Paul Maddrell Download File (pdf) A Chance for Peace? The Soviet Campaign to End the Cold War, 1953-1955 CWIHP Working Paper No. 57 Author: Geoffrey Roberts Download File (pdf) Hope and Reality: Poland and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1964–1989 CWIHP Working Paper No. 56 Author: Wanda Jarzabek Download File (pdf) Cutting the Gordian Knot: The Post-WWII Egyptian Quest for Arms and the 1955 Czechoslovak Arms Deal CWIHP Working Paper No. 55 Author: Guy Laron Download File (pdf) Sino-Hungarian Relations and the 1956 Revolution CWIHP Working Paper No. 54 Author: Péter Vámos Download File (pdf) North Korea's Efforts to Acquire Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Weapons: Evidence from Russian and Hungarian Archives CWIHP Working Paper No. 53 Author: Balazs Szalontai and Sergey Radchenko Download File (pdf) “We Need Help from Outside”: The North Korean Opposition Movement of 1956 CWIHP Working Paper No. 52 Author: James F. Person Download File (pdf) Inside the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Seizure of Kabul, December 1979 CWIHP Working Paper No. 51 Author: Aleksandr Antonovich Lyakhovskiy Download File (pdf) Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial CWIHP Working Paper No. 50 Author: Igor Lukes Download File (pdf) The Quarrelling Brothers: New Chinese Archives and a Reappraisal of the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1962 CWIHP Working Paper No. 49 Author: Dong Wang Download File (pdf) 1962: The Eve of the Left Turn in China’s Foreign Policy CWIHP Working Paper No. 48 Author: Niu Jun Download File (pdf) The Soviet Union and the North Korean Seizure of the USS Pueblo: Evidence from Russian Archives CWIHP Working Paper No. 47 Author: Sergey S. Radchenko Download File (pdf) Moscow's Surprise: The Soviet-Israeli Alliance of 1947-1949 CWIHP Working Paper No. 46 Author: Laurent Rucker Download File (pdf) Poland and Vietnam, 1963: New Evidence on Secret Communist Diplomacy and the "Maneli Affair" CWIHP Working Paper No. 45 Author: Margaret K. Gnoinska Download File (pdf) North Korean “Adventurism” and China’s Long Shadow, 1966-1972* CWIHP Working Paper No. 44 Author: Bernd Schaefer Download File (pdf) Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1989 CWIHP Working Paper #43 Author: Denis Deletant and Mihail Ionescu Download File (pdf) The Soviet's Best Friend in Asia. The Mongolian Dimension of the Sino-Soviet Split CWIHP Working Paper No. 42 Author: Sergey S. Radchenko Download File (pdf) Read Document Online The Soviet Union, Hong Kong and the Cold War, 1945-1970 CWIHP Working Paper No. 41 Author: Michael Share Download File (pdf) Read Document Online The KGB in Afghanistan Working Paper No. 40, Russian Version Author: Vasiliy Mitrokhin The Russian language version of Working Paper No. 40. This is an image scan of the Russian original, and is consequently a large .pdf file. --Click here to read a response to CWIHP Working Paper No. 40 Download File (pdf) The KGB in Afghanistan CWIHP Working Paper No. 40 Author: Vasilyi Mitrokhin --Click here to read a response to CWIHP Working Paper No. 40 Download File (pdf) "Should We Fear This?" Stalin and the Danger of War with America CWIHP Working Paper No. 39 Author: Kathryn Weathersby Download File (pdf) The New Course in Hungary in 1953 CWIHP Working Paper No. 38 Author: János Rainer Download File (pdf) Gheorghiu-Dej and the Romanian Workers’ Party: From de-Sovietization to the Emergence of National Communism CWIHP Working Paper No. 37 Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu Download File (pdf) Mao’s Conversations with the Soviet Ambassador, 1953-55 CWIHP Working Paper No. 36 Author: Paul Wingrove Download File (pdf) NATO in the Beholder’s Eye: Soviet Perceptions and Policies, 1949-1956 CWIHP Working Paper No. 35 Author: Vojtech Mastny Download File (pdf) Changes in Mao Zedong’s Attitude towards the Indochina War, 1949-1973 CWIHP Working Paper No. 34 Author: Yang Kuisong Download File (pdf) Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy CWIHP Working Paper No. 33 Author: Ethan Pollock Download File (pdf) The Warsaw Pact and Nuclear Nonproliferation, 1963-1965 CWIHP Working Paper No. 32 Author: Douglas Selvage Download File (pdf) Revolution By Degrees: Stalin's National-Front Strategy For Europe, 1941-1947 CWIHP Working Paper No. 31 Author: Eduard Mark Download File (pdf) ’One Finger’s Worth of Historical Events’: New Russian and Chinese Evidence on the Sino-Soviet Alliance and Split, 1948-1959 CWIHP Working Paper No. 30 Author: David Wolff Download File (pdf) The End of the Soviet Uranium Gap: The Soviet Uranium Agreements with Czechoslovakia and East Germany (1945/1953) CWIHP Working Paper No. 29 Author: Rainer Karlsch and Zbynek Zeman This Working Paper is not available at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. The Merchants of the Kremlin—The Economic Roots of Soviet Expansion in Hungary” CWIHP Working Paper No. 28 Author: Laszlo G. Borhi Download File (pdf) Who Murdered ‘Marigold’? New Evidence on the Mysterious Failure of Poland’s Secret Initiative to Start U.S.-North Vietnamese Peace Talks, 1966 CWIHP Working Paper No. 27 Author: James G. Hershberg, with the assistance of L.W. Gluchowski Download File (pdf) ‘The Allies are Pressing on You to Break Your Will...’ Foreign Policy Correspondence between Stalin and Molotov and Other Politburo Members, September 1945-December 1946 CWIHP Working Paper No. 26 Author: Vladimir O. Pechatnov, translated by Vladimir Zubok Download File (PDF) The Soviet-Chinese-Vietnamese Triangle in the 1970’s: The View from Moscow CWIHP Working Paper No. 25 Author: Stephen J. Morris Download File (pdf) Majales: The Abortive Student Revolt in Czechoslovakia in 1956 CWIHP Working Paper No. 24 Author: John P. C. Matthews Download File (pdf) The Soviet Non-Invasion of Poland in 1980-81 and the End of the Cold War CWIHP Working Paper No. 23 Author: Vojtech Mastny Download File (PDF) 77 Conversations Between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, 1964-77 CWIHP Working Paper No. 22 Author: Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonnesson, Nguyen Vu Tung, and James G. Hershberg Download File (pdf) ‘On the Decision to Introduce Martial Law in Poland in 1981’ Two Historians Report to the Commission on Constitutional Oversight of the SEJM of the Republic of Poland CWIHP Working Paper No. 21 Author: Andrzej Paczkowski and Andrzej Werblan Download File (pdf) Archives of Russia Seven Years After: ‘Purveyors of Sensations’ or ‘Shadows Cast to the Past’? (part1) CWIHP Working Paper No. 20 - Part 1 Author: Patricia K. Grimsted Download File (pdf) Archives of Russia Seven Years After: ‘Purveyors of Sensations’ or ‘Shadows Cast to the Past’? (part2) CWIHP Working Paper No. 20, part 2 Author: Patricia K. Grimsted Download File (pdf) ’Why Keep Such an Army?’ Khrushchev’s Troop Reductions CWIHP Working Paper No. 19 Author: Matthew Evangelista Download File (pdf) Beijing and the Vietnam Peace Talks, 1965-68: New Evidence from Chinese Sources CWIHP Working Paper No. 18 Author: Qiang Zhai Download File (pdf) The Soviet-Polish Confrontation of October 1956: The Situation in the Polish Internal Security Corps CWIHP Working Paper No. 17 Author: Leszek W. Gluchowski Download File (pdf) The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics CWIHP Working Paper No. 16 Author: Csaba Bekes Download File (pdf) The ‘Iran Crisis’ of 1945-46: A View from the Russian Archives CWIHP Working Paper No. 15 Author: Natalia I. Yegorova Download File (pdf) The 1952 Stalin Note Debate: Myth or Missed Opportunity for German Unification? CWIHP Working Paper No. 14 Author: Ruud van Dijk Download File (pdf) The Big Three After World War II: New Documents on Soviet Thinking about Post-War Relations with the United States and Great Britain CWIHP Working Paper No. 13 Author: Vladimir O. Pechatnov Download File (PDF) Stalin, the Cold War, and the Division of China: A Multi-Archival Mystery CWIHP Working Paper No. 12 Author: Brian Murray Download File (PDF) The United States, the East German Uprising of 1953, and the Limits of Rollback CWIHP Working Paper No. 11 Author: Christian F. Ostermann Download File (PDF) ‘To Know Everything and To Report Everything Worth Knowing’: Building the East German Police State, 1945-49 CWIHP Working Paper No. 10 Author: Norman M. Naimark Download File (PDF) New Evidence on the Soviet Rejection of the Marshall Plan, 1947: Two Reports CWIHP Working Paper No. 9 Author: Scott D. Parrish and Mikhail M. Narinsky Download File (pdf) Soviet Aims in Korea and the Origins of the Korean War, 1945-50: New Evidence From the Russian Archives CWIHP Working Paper No. 8 Author: Kathryn Weathersby Download File (pdf) Vietnamese Archives and Scholarship on the Cold War Period: Two Reports CWIHP Working Paper No. 7 Author: Mark Bradley and Robert K. Brigham Download File (pdf) Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis (1958-62) CWIHP Working Paper No. 6 Author: Vladislav M. Zubok Download File (pdf) Ulbricht and the Concrete ‘Rose’: New Archival Evidence on the Dynamics of Soviet-East German Relations and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-61 CWIHP Working Paper No. 5 Author: Hope M. Harrison Download File (pdf) Soviet Intelligence and the Cold War: The ‘Small’ Committee of Information, 1952-53 CWIHP Working Paper No. 4 Author: Vladislav M. Zubok Download File (pdf) Reexamining Soviet Policy Towards Germany during the Beria Interregnum CWIHP Working Paper No. 3 Author: James Richter Download File (pdf) Archival research on the Cold War Era: A report from Budapest, Prague and Warsaw CWIHP Working Paper No. 2 Author: P. J. Simmons This Working Paper is not available on-line. We apologize for the inconvenience. The Sino-Soviet Alliance and China's Entry into the Korean War CWIHP Working Paper No. 1 Author: Chen Jian Download File (pdf) Soviet Deliberations during the Polish Crisis, 1980-1981 Author: Mark Kramer Special Working Paper No. 1 Download File (PDF)

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