Negotiating One's Own Demise? The GDR's Foreign Ministry and the CSCE Negotiations
CWIHP e-Dossier No. 17
Documents from the German Democratic Republic Foreign Ministry archives describing East Berlin's perceptions of the negotiations leading up to the Helsinki Final Act.
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Proposals for Further Measures Concerning European Security
Current Essential questions in the Soviet Union's Politics of Ensuring European Security
Working Material for the Preparation of a European Security Conference
Factor Analysis Concerning the State of Preparation for a European Security Conference
Notes about a Conversation with the USSR's Ambassador, Comrade Malzev, on 22 November 1972
Possible Ideas for the Introduction of a Submission in the Politburo
Notes on a Conversation with Vortragendem Legationsrat 1st Class Dr. Blech, 19 August 1974
Material for Discussion in the "Permanent Commission on Issues of European Security"
The CSCE--An Era of Dissent and Consensus By Siegfried Bock
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