CWIHP e-Dossier Series
Cold War International History Project “e-Dossiers” present new and important accessions to the CWIHP Digital Archive. New documents are added to the Digital Archive and introduced by leading scholars of Cold War history, who provide background and context for this new archival evidence. The views expressed in these introductions are the authors’ own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Cold War International History Project.
The e-Dossier series is made possible by generous support from the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
Issues in this Series
e-Dossier No. 38 - Romania Security Policy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
CWIHP is pleased to announce the release of ten new documents translated into English for the first time. Larry L. Watts introduces the documents and explains how the Cuban Missile Crisis was critical in reorienting Romanian foreign and security policies in a manner that caused significant shifts in the nature of the Cold War regionally and globally.
e-Dossier No. 37 - KGB/Stasi Cooperation
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of 9 new document to its online Digital Archive. Released in cooperation with the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records, the new translations feature meetings between the highest levels of the Stasi and the KGB.
e-Dossier No. 36 - Viet Minh Seeks Support from Soviets
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. Introduced by Sophie Quinn-Judge, the newly released Soviet document records an unusual 1947 meeting in Switzerland with an emissary of the Viet Minh government.
e-Dossier No. 35 - Robert Mugabe and Todor Zhivkov
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. Introduced by Sue Onslow, the newly released document is a 1979 conversation between the future President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, and communist leader of Bulgaria, Todor Zhivkov.
e-Dossier No. 34 - Three Days in “Auschwitz without Gas Chambers”: Henry A. Wallace's Visit to Magadan in 1944
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of new documents to its online Digital Archive with an introduction by Vadim Birstein, biologist and historian. The newly translated documents reveal the Soviet perspective on Vice President Henry A. Wallace's 1944 trip to the Soviet Far East.
e-Dossier No. 33 - North Vietnam's "Talk-Fight" Strategy and the 1968 Peace Negotiations with the United States
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of 13 new documents to its online Digital Archive. The newly translated documents released today reveal the Vietnamese Communist Party's "Talk-Fight" negotiation strategy, first described by First Secretary Le Duan in a 1965 speech and put into action during initial 1968 peace talks.
e-Dossier No. 32 - Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition a new document collection to its online Digital Archive. This release contains newly-declassified US government documents obtained by A. Ross Johnson for his book 'Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty: The CIA Years and Beyond.' UPDATE - 6 new documents added December 2012.
e-Dossier No. 31 - Secret Soviet-Israeli Negotiations on the Eve of the Yom-Kippur War
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. The document released today is a secret 1973 conversation between Mordechai Gazit, General Director of the Prime Minister’s Office, and Soviet journalist Victor Louis.
e-Dossier No. 30 - Treatment of American POWs in North Vietnam
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. The document released today is a 1969 North Vietnam Communist Party resolution containing detailed instructions for improving the treatment and living conditions of American prisoners of war.
e-Dossier No. 29 - The Soviet-Romanian Clash over History, Identity and Dominion
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of seven new documents to its online Digital Archive. The documents released today shed new light on Soviet-Romanian relations and conflict during the late 1970s.
e-Dossier No. 28 - Vietnam Trained Commando Forces in Southeast Asia and Latin America
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of two new documents to its online Digital Archive. The two documents released today provide new evidence of Vietnam’s covert training of revolutionary commando forces in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
e-Dossier No. 27 - Molotov's Proposal that the USSR Join NATO, March 1954
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new document to its online Digital Archive. The document released today is a 1954 proposal by Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, in which he proposed that the USSR Join NATO.
e-Dossier No. 26 - Soviet Policy in Indonesia during the “Liberal Democracy” Period, 1950-1959
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of new documents to its online Digital Archive. The nine documents released today – reports by the Soviet ambassadors to Indonesia – provide new archival evidence of Soviet policy and activities in Southeast Asia in the 1950s.
e-Dossier No. 25 - Vietnam Covertly Supplied Weapons to Revolutionaries in Algeria and Latin America
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of new documents to its online Digital Archive. The two documents released today provide new evidence of Vietnam’s covert provision of weapons to revolutionaries in Algeria and Latin America.
e-Dossier No. 24 - The Beginning of the End for Détente: The Warsaw Pact Political Consultative Committee
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of a new documents to its online Digital Archive. Mircea Munteanu analyzes new archival evidence on the Warsaw Pact's internal relations and military policy – meeting notes taken by Romanian Ambassador Vasile Sandru at a 1978 session of the Political Consultative Committee.
e-Dossier No. 23 - New Evidence on the Building of the Berlin Wall
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of new documents to its online Digital Archive. Hope M. Harrision (George Washington University) analyzes new archival evidence on the building of the Berlin Wall – the notes of an August 1, 1961 meeting between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and East German leader Walter Ulbricht.
e-Dossier No. 22 - Introduction to the Willy Brandt Document Collection
The 22 documents made available here are a small sample from the 10 volumes of Willy Brandt's selected works published between 2002 and 2009 as "Berliner Ausgabe."
e-Dossier No. 21 - "A mass psychotic movement washing over the country like a wave": NATO's Dual-Track Decision
Sixteen new Documents on the Euromissiles Crisis from Dutch Archives
e-Dossier No. 20 - Roundtable Discussion on Warsaw Pact Exercises SOYUZ-75 and SHCHIT-88
Expert analyses of newly available documentation on Warsaw Pact military exercises SOYUZ-75 and SHCHIT-88.
e-Dossier No. 18 - Khrushchev at his Most Khrushchevian
A collection of translated documents originally published in the journal Istochnik, Dokumenti Ruskoi Istorii, 2003, No. 6; prepared with financial support from CWIHP.
e-Dossier No. 17 - Negotiating One's Own Demise? The GDR's Foreign Ministry and the CSCE Negotiations
Documents from the German Democratic Republic Foreign Ministry archives describing East Berlin's perceptions of the negotiations leading up to the Helsinki Final Act.
e-Dossier No. 14 - The History of North Korean Attitudes toward Nuclear Weapons
Documents from the Archive of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation and the Hungarian State Archive, recently obtained and translated by the Korea Initiative of the Cold War International History Project.
e-Dossier No. 5 - New Evidence on the 1989 Crisis in Romania
Translated Romanian documents shed new light on the December 1989 toppling and execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
e-Dossier No. 3
This e-Dossier contained selected documents on the Vietnam War from CWIHP Bulletin 12/13, Part 2, "New Evidence on the Cold War in Asia." It is available for download on the Bulletin section of the Publications page.
e-Dossier No. 2
This e-Dossier contained selected documents from CWIHP Bulletin 12/13. It is available for download on the Bulletin section of the Publications page.
e-Dossier No. 1
This e-Dossier contained selected documents from CWIHP Bulletin 11, Part 4, "New Evidence on the Korean War." It is available for download on the Bulletin section of the Publications page.