New video: the Archive's Svetlana Savranskaya discusses the peaceful end to the Cold War in Europe
In this video, Russia Programs Director Svetlana Savranskaya discusses the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A new book from the National Security Archive, Masterpieces of History: The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe (forthcoming in 2010, Central European University Press), chronicles the role of peaceful revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989 and 1990 through documents collected from US, European, and Russian archives.
Fall of Berlin Wall Caused Anxiety More than Joy at Highest Levels
Secret Documents Show Opposition to German Unification
The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago generated major anxiety in capitals from Warsaw to Washington, to the point of outright opposition to the possibility of German unification, according to documents from Soviet, American and European secret files posted on the Web today by the National Security Archive...>>>
Prague Communists Called for Wall to Open on November 8, 1989
East German Refugee Crisis in Embassies in Prague Turned Hardliners into Advocates for Change 20 Years Ago
New Documents from Prague, Berlin, and Bonn detail the pressure on the "System" from East Germans voting with their feet
Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, even the hardline Czechoslovak Communist leaders called for the opening of the German border, according to documents from high-level archives in Berlin, Bonn and Prague published for the first time in English and posted on the Web today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University...>>>
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