Bulletin No. 14/15 -- Winter 2003-Spring 2004

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Table of Contents

New Evidence on North Korea

• Introduction By Kathryn Weathersby
• Sino-North Korean Conflict and its Resolution during the Korean War By Shen Zhihua 
• Weathering the Sino-Soviet Conflict: The GDR and North Korea, 1949-1989 By Bernd Schäfer 
• “You Have No Political Line of Your Own:” Kim Il Sung and the Soviets, 1953-1964 By Balázs Szalontai 

New Evidence on the Soviet War in Afghanistan

• Introduction By Christian F. Ostermann
• Gorbachev and Afghanistan Edited and Annotated By Christian F. Ostermann 
• KGB Active Measures in Southwest Asia in 1980-82 By Vasily Mitrokhin 
• Why Was There No “Second Cold War” in Europe? Hungary and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979: Documents from the Hungarian Archives By Csaba Békés
• Czechoslovakia and the War in Afghanistan, 1979-1989 By Oldrich Tuma
• More East-Bloc Sources on Afghanistan 

Ukraine and the Soviet-Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968 (Part 2):

• New Evidence from the Ukrainian Archives Compiled, Introduced, Translated, and Annotated By Mark Kramer 

New Evidence on Cold War Crises

• Russian Documents on the Korean War: 1950-53 Introduction by James G. Hershberg and translations by Vladislav Zubok
• Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Cuba: New Evidence By Svetlana Savaranskaya 

Conference Reports, Research Notes and Archive Updates

• Cold War in the Caucasus: Notes and Documents from a Conference By Svetlana Savranskaya and Vladislav Zubok
• A Cold War Odyssey: The Oswald Files By Max Holland
• Mongolian Archives By Sergey Radchenko 
• Todor Zhivkov and the Cold War: Revelations from His Personal Papers 
• New Central and East European Evidence on the Cold War in Asia By Yvette Chin, Gregory Domber, Malgorzata Gnoniska and Mircea Munteanu