Issue Contents:

Stalin’s Conversations With Chinese Leaders

• "Talks with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, 1949-53" - Chen Jian, Vojtech Mastny, Odd Arne Westad, and Vladislav Zubok
• "Rivals and Allies: Stalin, Mao, and the Chinese Civil War, January 1949" - Odd Arne Westad

New Evidence on the Korean War

• "New Russian Documents on the Korean War" -  Kathryn Weathersby
• "China’s Road to the Korean War" - Chen Jian
• "Assessing the Politics of the Korean War, 1949-51" - Evgueni Bajanov
• "The Shtykov Diaries" - Hyun-su Jeon with Gyoo Kahng
• "Stalin, Mao, Kim, and China’s Decision to Enter the Korean War, Sept. 16-Oct. 15, 1950" - Alexandre Y. Mansourov
• "Bruce Cumings and Kathryn Weathersby: An Exchange on Korean War Origins"
• "Soviet Interrogation of U.S. POWs in the Korean War" - Laurence Jolidan

New Chinese Sources

• "Constructing a History of Chinese Communist Party Foreign Relations" - Michael H. Hunt
• "CCP Foreign Relations: A Guide to the Literature" - Michael H. Hunt
• "CCP Leaders’ Selected Works and the Historiography of the Chinese Communist Revolution" - Chen Jian
• "The Second Historical Archives of China" - Gao Hua with Scott Kennedy

New Evidence on Sino-Soviet Relations

• "The Emerging Disputes Between Beijing and Moscow: Ten Newly Available Chinese Documents, 1956-1958" - Zhang Shu Guang and Chen Jian
• "Mao on Sino-Soviet Relations: Two Conversations with the Soviet Ambassador" - Odd Arne Westad
• "The Soviet Foreign Ministry Appraisal of Sino-Soviet Relations on the Eve of the Split" - Mark Kramer
• "East German Documents on the Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969" - Christian F. Ostermann
• "The Cold War in Asia: Khabarovsk Conference Held on Russian Far East" - David L. Wolff
• "Soviet Reactions to the Sino-Soviet Border Rift" - Elizabeth Wishnick
• "Sino-Soviet Tensions, 1980: Two Russian Documents" - Elizabeth Wishnick

New Evidence on Sino-American Relations

• "Mao Zedong’s Handling of the Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1958" - Li Xiaobing, Chen Jian, and David L. Wilson
• "Khrushchev’s Nuclear Promise to Beijing during the Crisis" - Vladislav Zubok
• "Mao Zedong and Dulles’s 'Peaceful Evolution' Strategy" - Qiang Zhai

New Evidence on the Vietnam/Indochina Wars

• "The Vietnam War and Soviet-American Relations, 1964-73: New Russian Evidence" - Ilya V. Gaiduk
• "Beijing and the Vietnam Conflict, 1964-1965" - Qiang Zhai
• "Polish Secret Peace Initiatives in Vietnam" - Jerzy Michalowski
• "The Cambodian National Archives" - Kenton J. Clymer
• "Sources on the Khmer Rouge Years: The Cambodian Genocide Program"

Research Notes

• "Documenting the Early Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program" - Mark Kramer
• "Secret East German Report on Chinese Reactions to the 1956 Hungarian Revolt" - Mark Kramer

Book Reviews

• "The Cold War: Testimony of a Participant" by G.M. Kornienko, reviewed by David R. Stone
• "My Life During Four Eras" by Chen Hansheng, reviewed by Maochen Yu
• "Political Dissent and Opposition in Poland: The Workers’ Defense Committee 'KOR'" and Dramaticheskie sobytiya v Pol’she, 1980-1981 gg by Ya.Ya. Grishin, reviewed by Mark Kramer

Letters

• "Response: Sudoplatov Controversy (cont.)"
• "Response: More on 1956 Polish Crisis"
• "Response: More on 1956 Hungarian Crisis"