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Collection: The Irresistible Collapse of the Warsaw Pact : Documents from Bulgarian Archives, 1985-1991


Edited by Jordan Baev and Anna Locher
Nov 2000

Documents

   Firmness with Change, 1985-1986

28 May 1985 Assessment of Possible US Intentions to Use Military Force against Bulgaria
22 Oct 1985 Speech of the General Secretary of the CPSU (Mikhail Gorbachev) at the Sofia Political Consultative Committee Meeting
29 Oct 1985 Letter from the KGB Representative in Sofia (V. Fedorov) to the Bulgarian Minister of the Interior (Dimitar Stoyanov)
3 Mar 1986 Weekly State Security Review with Information on the Activity of NATO Military Representatives in Sofia
19 Mar 1986 Speech of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (Eduard Shevardnadze) in Warsaw
10 Jun 1986 Speech of the Secretary-General of the CPSU (Mikhail Gorbachev) in Budapest
22 Sep 1986 Information from the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Petar Mladenov) to the Politburo of the CC of the BCP regarding the Bulgarian Position on the Romanian Proposal for the Reduction of Warsaw Treaty Armed Forces

   Belated Attempts at a Warsaw Pact Perestroika, 1987-1989

15 Apr 1987 Memorandum about Talks with the US Secretary of State (George P. Shultz) in Moscow
29 Apr 1987 Letter from the Bulgarian Minister of the Interior (Dimitar Stoyanov) to the Head of the STASI (Erich Mielke)
11 May 1987 Memorandum of Meeting between the First Secretary of the BCP (Todor Zhivkov) and the General Secretary of the CPSU (Mikhail Gorbachev)
4 Jun 1987 State Security Information on the Attention of Representatives of NATO Countries in Sofia to the "Balkan-87" Exercise
23 Jun 1987 Decision "B" No. 17 of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party
6 Aug 1987 Report by Army General and Member of the CC of the BCP Politburo (Dobri Djurov) and Colonel-General and Chief of the Main Political Department of the Bulgarian People's Army (Mitko Mitkov) to the Secretariat of the CC of the BCP
6 Aug 1987 Information No. 2105 from the KGB on Planned Anti-Bulgarian Action by the Turkish Secret Service
10 Aug 1987 Information regarding the Views of the General Staffs of the Warsaw Treaty Member States on the NATO Project on "The Mandate for Negotiations on Conventional Stability in Europe"
15 Sep 1987 Report from the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Petar Mladenov) to the Politburo of the CC of the BCP
16 Sep 1987 Decision "B" No. 28 of the Secretariat of the CC of the BCP
16 Oct 1987 Memorandum of Meeting between the General Secretary of the BCP (Todor Zhivkov) and the General Secretary of the CPSU (Mikhail Gorbachev) in Moscow
26 Nov 1987 Memorandum of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Petar Mladenov) to the Politburo of the CC of the BCP
14 Dec 1987 Decision of the CC of the BCP regarding the Warsaw Treaty Leaders' Meeting in East Berlin on 14 December 1987
8 Feb 1988 A Plan for the Preparation of a Soviet Bloc Secret Services Conference in Bulgaria
11 Feb 1988 Letter from the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (Lyuben Gotsev) to the First Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the PRB (Atanas Semerdjiev)
27 Mar 1988 Memorandum of Meeting of the Bulgarian and Romanian Deputy Foreign Ministers regarding the CMFA Meeting in Sofia
27 Jun 1988 State Security Information on "Charter 77" Activities in Prague
1 Jul 1988 Letter from the Minister of the Interior (Dimitar Stoyanov) regarding Confidential Materials in the French Embassy in Sofia
1 Jul 1988 Report by the Minister of Defense (Dobri Djurov) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Petar Mladenov) to the Politburo of the CC of the BCP
8 Jul 1988 Romanian Proposal for Warsaw Pact Reform: Information Regarding the Romanian Proposal
8 Jul 1988 Romanian Proposal for Warsaw Pact Reform: Letter of the CC of the Romanian Communist Party
15 Jul 1988 Speech by the General Secretary of the CPSU (Mikhail Gorbachev) in Warsaw
15 Jul 1988 Speech of the First Secretary of the BCP (Todor Zhivkov) in Warsaw
18 Jul 1988 Information from the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Petar Mladenov) to the Politburo of the BCP regarding the PCC Meeting in Warsaw
21 Jul 1988 Letter from the Bulgarian to the Czechoslovak Secret Service
2 Feb 1989 Information from the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Petar Mladenov) to the Politburo of the CC of the BCP regarding the Vienna Summit
20 Mar 1989 Decision "B" of the Politburo of the CC of the BCP for the Postponement of the Military Exercise "Rodina-89"
18 Apr 1989 Information by the General Secretary of the BCP (Todor Zhivkov) to the Politburo of the CC of the BCP regarding the Meeting with the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (Károly Grósz)
24 Apr 1989 Information by the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Petar Mladenov) to the Politburo of the CC of the BCP regarding the 18th Meeting of the CMFA
5 May 1989 Report by the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Petar Mladenov) to the Secretariat of the CC of the BCP regarding Bulgaria's Delegation to the Conference in Paris
14 Jun 1989 Bulgarian Proposal for the Improvement of Warsaw Treaty Structures Prepared for the Bucharest Political Consultative Committee Meeting
21 Jun 1989 Letter from the CC of the BCP to the CC of the RCP Regarding the Romanian Proposal for the Transformation of the Warsaw Pact Structure
23 Jun 1989 Memorandum of Meeting between the General Secretary of the BCP (Todor Zhivkov) and the General Secretary of the CPSU (Mikhail Gorbachev)
12 Jul 1989 Information from the Bulgarian Foreign Minister (Petar Mladenov) to the Politburo of the CC of the BCP regarding the Political Consultative Committee Meeting in Bucharest
18 Jul 1989 Information from the Bulgarian Prime Minister (Georgi Atanasov) regarding the Visit of the GDR Prime Minister (Willi Stoph)

   Inevitable Dissolution, 1990-1991

29 Jan 1990 Memorandum of Discussion between a Bulgarian (A. Nastev) and a Soviet Diplomat (Savelyev) on the Warsaw Treaty Working Group Meeting
15 Mar 1990 Memorandum of the 23rd Meeting of the Warsaw Pact Multilateral Group for Current Mutual Information
4 Jun 1990 Information on Czechoslovak Proposals before the Moscow Political Consultative Committee Meeting
28 Sep 1990 Memorandum on Conversation between a Bulgarian (Neicho Neev) and a Czechoslovak Diplomat (Jozef Dzurenda) on the forthcoming Political Consultative Committee Meeting
23 Nov 1990 Memorandum of Conversation between a Bulgarian (Neicho Neev) and a Hungarian Diplomat (István Szábó) on forthcoming Political Consultative Committee Meeting Dates
11 Feb 1991 Memorandum ot the Letter from the General Secretary of the CPSU (Mikhail Gorbachev) to the Bulgarian President (Zhelyu Zhelev) with a Proposal for a Warsaw Treaty CMFA and CMD Meeting
12 Apr 1991 Conversation between a Bulgarian (Atanas Nastev) and a Hungarian diplomat (István Szábó) on the Possibility of the Creation of a New Eastern European Alliance
17 Jun 1991 Report by the Bulgarian Foreign (Viktor Vulkov) and Defense Ministers (Yordan Mutafchev) with a Proposal for the Ratification of the CFE Treaty

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