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Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1989<br> 03-05 October, 2002

The conference brought together Romanian and Western scholars to discuss new evidence declassified from the archives of the Romanian Communist Party, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense.

Date & Time

Friday
Oct. 4, 2002
1:00am – 12:00am ET

Overview

October 3rd 2002 marked the opening of the International Conference Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1989 organized by the Cold War International History Project in cooperation with the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Institute for Political Studies of Defense and Military History (Bucharest, Romania).

The conference brought together Romanian and Western scholars working on the Cold War to discuss the role played by Romania in the Cold War, specifically, Romania's important role in the creation and evolution of the Warsaw Pact as a military alliance. It also facilitated discussions between policy makers, archivists, and historians from all major Romanian Universities as well as scholars from Hungary, Bulgaria, Moldavia, the UK and the US on topics such as declassification and conservation.

The CWIHP, together with its partners, put together a document reader, containing newly declassified documents from Romanian and US archives. These documents, some of which have been translated by CWIHP, are available in the CWIHP Virtual Archive in the Romania and the Warsaw Pact 1955-89 collection.

The conference in Bucharest is the begining of a major CWIHP involvement in the obtaining, declassifying and publishing documents on Romania's role in the Cold War. Other conferences and document collections will follow.

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Cold War International History Project

The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War. Through an award winning Digital Archive, the Project allows scholars, journalists, students, and the interested public to reassess the Cold War and its many contemporary legacies. It is part of the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program.  Read more

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