Issue Contents:

• "Editor’s Introduction" - James G. Hershberg

New Evidence on the Cold War in Southern Africa

• "Havana’s Policy in Africa, 1959-76: New Evidence from Cuban Archives" - Piero Gleijeses
• "Fidel Castro’s 1977 Southern Africa Tour: A Report to Honecker" - Christian F. Ostermann
• "Moscow and the Angolan Crisis: A New Pattern of Intervention" - Odd Arne Westad
• "Soviet Documents on Angola and Southern Africa, 1975-1979"

Anatomy of a Third World Cold War Crisis: New East-bloc Evidence on the Horn of Africa, 1977-1978

• "The Horn, the Cold War, and New Documents from the Former East-bloc: An Ethiopian View" - Ermias Abebe
• "Moscow, Mengistu, and the Horn: Difficult Choices for the Kremlin" - Paul B. Henze
• "East Germany and the Horn Crisis: Documents on SED Afrikapolitik" - Christian F. Ostermann
• "Russian and East German Documents on the Horn of Africa, 1977-1978"

U.S.-Soviet Relations and the Turn Toward Confrontation, 1977-1980

• "Russian and East German Documents"

New Evidence on the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan

• "Concerning the Situation in 'A': New Russian Evidence on the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan" - Odd Arne Westad
• "The Soviet Union and Afghanistan, 1978-1989: Documents from the Russian and East German Archives"

• U.S.-Cuban Relations and the Cold War, 1976-1981

• "Russian and East German Documents"
• "Cuba as Superpower: Havana and Moscow, 1979" - Jorge I. Dominguez
• "A 'Moment of Rapprochement': The Haig-Rodriguez Secret Talks" - Peter Kornbluh

More New Evidence on the Cold War in Asia

• "More on Mao in Moscow, Dec. 1949-Feb. 1950"
• "Fighting for Friendship: Mao, Stalin, and the Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty of 1950" - Odd Arne Westad
• "Translated Russian and Chinese Documents on Mao Zedong’s Visit to Moscow, December 1949-February 1950"
• "Stalin, Mao, Kim and Korean War Origins, 1950: A Russian Documentary Discrepancy" - Dieter Heinzig
• "The Discrepancy Between the Russian and Chinese Versions of Mao’s 2 October 1950 Message to Stalin on Chinese Entry into the Korean War: A Chinese Scholar’s Reply" - Shen Zhihua
• "Khrushchev vs. Mao: A Preliminary Sketch of the Role of Personality in the Sino-Soviet Split" - William Taubman
• "A New 'Cult of Personality': Suslov’s Secret Report on Mao, Khrushchev, and Sino-Soviet Tensions, December 1959"
• "A Crucial Step toward the Sino-Soviet Schism: The Withdrawal of Soviet Experts from China, July 1960" - Chen Jian
• "The Sino-Indian Conflict, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Sino-Soviet Split, October 1962: New Evidence from the Russian Archives" - M.Y. Prozumenschikov
• "New East-bloc Documents on the Sino-Indian Conflict, 1959 & 1962"

More New Evidence on the Cuban Missile Crisis

• "More New Evidence on the Cuban Missile Crisis: More Documents from the Russian Archives" - James G. Hershberg
• "More on Bobby and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - James G. Hershberg
• "Russian Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis"
• "The Mikoyan-Castro Talks, 4-5 November 1962: The Cuban Version"
• "The 'Lessons' of the Cuban Missile Crisis for Warsaw Pact Nuclear Operations" - Mark Kramer

Special Feature: New Evidence on the 1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises

• "Conferences in Budapest, Potsdam Spotlight Cold War Flashpoints"
• "Togliatti on Nagy, 30 October 1956: Missing Cable Found"
• "New Evidence on Soviet Decision-Making and the 1956 Polish and Hungarian Crises" - Mark Kramer
• "The 'Malin Notes' on the Crises in Hungary and Poland, 1956" - Mark Kramer

Research Notes

• "The Russian Nuclear Declassification Project: Setting up the A-Bomb Effort, 1946" - G.A. Goncharov, N.I. Komov, and A.S. Stepanov
• "Khrushchev’s 1960 Troop Cut: New Russian Evidence" - Vladislav M. Zubok