Format:
Online-Ressource (xlx, 726 p)
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ill., maps
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9637326073
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9637326081
Series Statement:
National Security Archive Cold War readers
Content:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chronology of Events -- The Warsaw Pact as History -- PART ONE The Formative Years -- Document No. 1: The Warsaw Treaty, May 14, 1955 -- Document No. 2: Statute of the Warsaw Treaty Unified Command, September 7, 1955 -- Document No. 3: Imre Nagy's Telegram to Diplomatic Missions in Budapest Declaring Hungary's Neutrality, November 1, 1956 -- Document No. 4: Gen. Jan Drzewiecki's Critique of the Statute of the Unified Command, November 3, 1956 -- Document No. 5: Polish Memorandum on Reform of the Warsaw Pact, January 10, 1957 -- Document No. 6: Gen. Drzewiecki's Interview regarding Memorandum on Reform of the Warsaw Pact, May 8, 1997 -- Document No. 7: Soviet Directives to the Czechoslovak Army on Operational and Combat Preparations, September 25, 1957 -- Document No. 8: Draft of a Warsaw Pact- NATO Nonaggression Treaty, May 24, 1958 -- Document No. 9: Marshal Ivan Konev Analysis of a Czechoslovak Army Operational Exercise, March 31- April 7, 1959 -- Document No. 10: Conclusions from the Operational Exercise of the Czechoslovak Army, March 31- April 7, 1959 -- Document No. 11: East German Description of a West German Plan for the Occupation of the GDR, July 29, 1959 -- Document No. 12: Warsaw Pact Views of NATO's Plans and Capabilities, April 28, 1960 -- Document No. 13: The Soviet- Albanian Dispute, March 22- June 3, 1961 -- Document No. 14: Secret PCC Resolution on Restructuring and Modernization of Warsaw Pact Forces, March 29, 1961 -- Document No. 15: Czechoslovakia's Strategic Position in a European War, April 1961 -- Document No. 16: Speech by Marshal Malinovskii Describing the Need for Warsaw Pact Offensive Operations, May 1961.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 693-704) and index
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The formative yearsThe crisis -- The alliance at its peak -- The incipient decline -- Disintegration.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789637326080
Additional Edition:
Print version Mastny, Vojtech Cardboard Castle? : An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991 Herndon : Central European University Press,c2005
Language:
English
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