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A Cardboard Castle? : An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1991.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: National Security Archive Cold War Reader SeriesPublisher: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (786 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9786155053696
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Cardboard Castle?DDC classification:
  • 355/.031/0947
LOC classification:
  • UA646.8 -- .C37 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Series title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface and Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chronology of Events -- THE WARSAW PACT AS HISTORY by VOJTECH MASTNY -- 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 Reformof 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 Non-aggression Treaty, May 24, 1958 -- Document No. 9: Marshal Ivan Konev's Analysis of a Czechoslovak ArmyOperational 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: Political Consultative Committee Resolution on the Restructuringand 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.
Document No. 17: Czechoslovak Politburo Resolution on Mobilization Readiness with Respect to the Berlin Question, July 25, 1961 -- Document No. 18: Joint Declaration of the Warsaw Treaty States on the Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961 -- Document No. 19: Resolution by the Czechoslovak Party Military Defense Commissionon the Introduction of Emergency Measures, September 14, 1961 -- Document No. 20: The "Buria" Exercise Preparing for an Advance into WesternEurope, September 28-October 10, 1963 -- Document No. 21: Organizational Principles of the Czechoslovak Army, November 22, 1962 -- Document No. 22: The "Mazowsze" Exercise for Nuclear War and Interview withGen. Tuczapski on Soviet Bloc Planning of Exercises, 1963-1964 -- Document No. 23: Polish Command Post Exercise Rehearsing an Advance to Northern Germany, Low Countries, and Denmark, June 14, 1963 -- Document No. 24: Mongolian Request for Admission to the Warsaw Pact, July 15, 1963 -- Document No. 25: Polish Foreign Ministry Memorandum regardingPossible Mongolian Accession to the Warsaw Treaty, July 20, 1963 -- Document No. 25: Polish Foreign Ministry Memorandum regarding Possible Mongolian Accession to the Warsaw Treaty,July 20, 1963 -- Document No. 26: Czechoslovak Drafts of Orders and Appeals to be Issued in Occupied Western European Territories, June 29, 1964 -- Document No. 27: Warsaw Pact War Plan for the Czechoslovak Front, October 14, 1964 -- Document No. 28: Warsaw Pact Intelligence on NATO's Strategy and Combat Readiness, 1965 -- PART TWO - THE CRISIS -- Document No. 29: Albanian Note to the Political Consultative Committee, January 15, 1965 -- Document No. 30: Minutes of Discussion at Political Consultative Committee Meeting in Warsaw, January 20, 1965 -- Document No. 31: Plan for Hungarian Command-Staff War Game, May 1965.
Document No. 32: Transcript of Ceaușescu-Deng Conversation, July 25, 1965 -- Document No. 33: Hungarian Proposals for Reform of the Warsaw Pact, January 18-19, 1966 -- Document No. 34: Polish Proposals for Reform of the Warsaw Pact, January 21 &amp -- 26, 1966 -- Document No 35: Czechoslovak Proposal for Reform of the Warsaw Pact, February 1966 -- Document No. 36: Statement by the Romanian Chief of Staff on Reform of the Warsaw Pact, February 4-9, 1966 -- Document No. 37: Summary of Discussion at Conference of Warsaw Treaty Deputy Foreign Ministers, February 17, 1966 -- Document No. 38: Study of Special Features of a Surprise Outbreak of War Prepared for the Hungarian Military, February 22-23, 1966 -- Document No. 39: Memorandum of the Conference of Defense Ministers, May 27-28, 1966 -- Document No. 40: 220Memorandum of the Conference of Foreign Ministers,June 14-15, 1966 -- Document No. 41: Minutes of Summit of Warsaw Pact Leaders in Bucharest, July 5-7, 1966 -- Document No. 42: Transcript of Gathering of Warsaw Pact Leaders in Karlovy Vary, April 25, 1967 -- Document No. 43: East German Analysis of the NATO "Fallex 66" Exercise, 1967 -- Document No. 44: Report on the State of the Bulgarian Army in the Wake of the Middle East War, October 7, 1967 -- Document No. 45: Memorandum of Results of the Chiefs of General Staff Meeting regarding Reorganization of the Warsaw Treaty, March 1, 1968 -- Document No. 46: Czechoslovak Report on the Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of March 6-7, 1968, March 26, 1968 -- Document No. 47: Remarks by the Czechoslovak Chief of Staff on the Theory of Local War, March 13, 1968 -- Document No. 48: Record of Gomułka-Iakubovskii Conversation in Warsaw, April 19, 1968 -- Document No. 49: Report to Nicolae Ceaușescu on the Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee in Sofia, June 3, 1968.
Document No. 50: Memorandum of the Academic Staff of the Czechoslovak Military Academies on Czechoslovakia's Defense Doctrine, June 4, 1968 -- Document No. 51: Action Program of the Czechoslovak Army, June 11, 1968 -- Document No. 52: Czechoslovak Central Committee Study of Security Policy, June 24, 1968 -- Document No. 53: Reports on the "Šumava" Exercise, July 1968 -- Document No. 54: Transcript of the Meeting of Five Warsaw Pact States in Warsaw, July 14-15, 1968 -- Document No. 55: Czechoslovak and East German Views on the Warsaw Pact, July 1968 -- Document No. 56: Report by East German Defense Minister on the Invasion of Czechoslovakia, August 22, 1968 -- Document No. 57: Record of Meeting between President Ludvík Svoboda and Czechoslovak Army Officers, August 28, 1968 -- Document No. 58: Letter from the East German Deputy Defense Minister to Erich Honecker about His Conversation with Marshal Iakubovskii, August 31, 1968 -- Document No. 59: Report by the East German Defense Minister on NATO's "Fallex 68/Golden Rod" Exercise, November 21, 1968 -- Document No. 60: Czechoslovak-Soviet Agreement on the Stationing of Soviet Nuclear Forces, November 13-14, 1968 -- Document No. 61: Czechoslovak General Staff Study on the Warsaw Treaty, December 21, 1968 -- PART THREE - THE ALLIANCE AT ITS PEAK -- Document No. 62: New Secret Statutes of the Warsaw Pact, March 17, 1969 -- Document No. 63: Appeal for a European Security Conference, March 17, 1969 -- Document No. 64: Report by Ceaușescu to the Romanian Politburo on the Political Consultative Committee Meeting in Budapest, March 18, 1969 -- Document No. 65: Polish Army Report on East German Misbehavior during the "Oder-Neisse-69" Exercise, October 22, 1969 -- Document No. 66: Speech by Marshal Grechko at the "Zapad" Exercise, October 16, 1969.
Document No. 67: Hungarian Foreign Ministry Memorandum of Soviet-Hungarian Consultations on the European Security Conference, October 18, 1969 -- Document No. 68: Polish Proposals for the Conference on Security and Disarmament, October 24, 1969 -- Document No. 69: East German Evaluation of Polish Proposal for a European Security Treaty, November 13, 1969 -- Document No. 70: Speech by Grechko at the First Meeting of the Warsaw Pact Committee of Ministers of Defense, December 22, 1969 -- Document No. 71: Hungarian Report of Warsaw Pact Summit on Policy toward West Germany, January 7, 1970 -- Document No. 72: Minutes of Romanian Politburo Meeting Concerning the Ceaușescu-Brezhnev Conversation, May 20, 1970 -- Document No. 73: The Surrender of Hannover according to the Polish Army's "Bison" Exercise, April 21-28, 1971 -- Document No. 74: Transcript of Romanian Politburo Meeting on Ceaușescu'sTrip to Asia and Moscow, June 25, 1971 -- Document No. 75: Comparison of Warsaw Treaty and NATO Positions concerningthe European Security Conference, December 1, 1971 -- Document No. 76: Hungarian Memorandum on the Deputy Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Moscow, February 3, 1975 -- Document No. 77: Iakubovskii Report on the State of the Unified Armed Forces, December 31, 1975 -- Document No. 78: Evaluation of the Helsinki Final Act by the Czechoslovak Party Presidium, April 28, 1976 -- Document No. 79: Czechoslovak Analysis of the "Soiuz 77" Exercise, March 21-29, 1977 -- Document No. 80: Description of Activities of an East German Spy inside NATO, April-May 1977 -- Document No. 81: Marshal Ogarkov Analysis of the "Zapad" Exercise, May 30-June 9, 1977 -- Document No. 82: Report by Marshal Kulikov on the State of the Unified Armed Forces, January 30, 1978 -- Document No. 83: Soviet Statement at the Chiefs of General Staff Meeting in Sofia, June 12-14, 1978.
Document No. 84: Speech by Brezhnev at the Political Consultative Committee Meeting in Moscow, November 22, 1978.
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Cover -- Series title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface and Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chronology of Events -- THE WARSAW PACT AS HISTORY by VOJTECH MASTNY -- 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 Reformof 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 Non-aggression Treaty, May 24, 1958 -- Document No. 9: Marshal Ivan Konev's Analysis of a Czechoslovak ArmyOperational 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: Political Consultative Committee Resolution on the Restructuringand 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.

Document No. 17: Czechoslovak Politburo Resolution on Mobilization Readiness with Respect to the Berlin Question, July 25, 1961 -- Document No. 18: Joint Declaration of the Warsaw Treaty States on the Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961 -- Document No. 19: Resolution by the Czechoslovak Party Military Defense Commissionon the Introduction of Emergency Measures, September 14, 1961 -- Document No. 20: The "Buria" Exercise Preparing for an Advance into WesternEurope, September 28-October 10, 1963 -- Document No. 21: Organizational Principles of the Czechoslovak Army, November 22, 1962 -- Document No. 22: The "Mazowsze" Exercise for Nuclear War and Interview withGen. Tuczapski on Soviet Bloc Planning of Exercises, 1963-1964 -- Document No. 23: Polish Command Post Exercise Rehearsing an Advance to Northern Germany, Low Countries, and Denmark, June 14, 1963 -- Document No. 24: Mongolian Request for Admission to the Warsaw Pact, July 15, 1963 -- Document No. 25: Polish Foreign Ministry Memorandum regardingPossible Mongolian Accession to the Warsaw Treaty, July 20, 1963 -- Document No. 25: Polish Foreign Ministry Memorandum regarding Possible Mongolian Accession to the Warsaw Treaty,July 20, 1963 -- Document No. 26: Czechoslovak Drafts of Orders and Appeals to be Issued in Occupied Western European Territories, June 29, 1964 -- Document No. 27: Warsaw Pact War Plan for the Czechoslovak Front, October 14, 1964 -- Document No. 28: Warsaw Pact Intelligence on NATO's Strategy and Combat Readiness, 1965 -- PART TWO - THE CRISIS -- Document No. 29: Albanian Note to the Political Consultative Committee, January 15, 1965 -- Document No. 30: Minutes of Discussion at Political Consultative Committee Meeting in Warsaw, January 20, 1965 -- Document No. 31: Plan for Hungarian Command-Staff War Game, May 1965.

Document No. 32: Transcript of Ceaușescu-Deng Conversation, July 25, 1965 -- Document No. 33: Hungarian Proposals for Reform of the Warsaw Pact, January 18-19, 1966 -- Document No. 34: Polish Proposals for Reform of the Warsaw Pact, January 21 &amp -- 26, 1966 -- Document No 35: Czechoslovak Proposal for Reform of the Warsaw Pact, February 1966 -- Document No. 36: Statement by the Romanian Chief of Staff on Reform of the Warsaw Pact, February 4-9, 1966 -- Document No. 37: Summary of Discussion at Conference of Warsaw Treaty Deputy Foreign Ministers, February 17, 1966 -- Document No. 38: Study of Special Features of a Surprise Outbreak of War Prepared for the Hungarian Military, February 22-23, 1966 -- Document No. 39: Memorandum of the Conference of Defense Ministers, May 27-28, 1966 -- Document No. 40: 220Memorandum of the Conference of Foreign Ministers,June 14-15, 1966 -- Document No. 41: Minutes of Summit of Warsaw Pact Leaders in Bucharest, July 5-7, 1966 -- Document No. 42: Transcript of Gathering of Warsaw Pact Leaders in Karlovy Vary, April 25, 1967 -- Document No. 43: East German Analysis of the NATO "Fallex 66" Exercise, 1967 -- Document No. 44: Report on the State of the Bulgarian Army in the Wake of the Middle East War, October 7, 1967 -- Document No. 45: Memorandum of Results of the Chiefs of General Staff Meeting regarding Reorganization of the Warsaw Treaty, March 1, 1968 -- Document No. 46: Czechoslovak Report on the Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee of March 6-7, 1968, March 26, 1968 -- Document No. 47: Remarks by the Czechoslovak Chief of Staff on the Theory of Local War, March 13, 1968 -- Document No. 48: Record of Gomułka-Iakubovskii Conversation in Warsaw, April 19, 1968 -- Document No. 49: Report to Nicolae Ceaușescu on the Meeting of the Political Consultative Committee in Sofia, June 3, 1968.

Document No. 50: Memorandum of the Academic Staff of the Czechoslovak Military Academies on Czechoslovakia's Defense Doctrine, June 4, 1968 -- Document No. 51: Action Program of the Czechoslovak Army, June 11, 1968 -- Document No. 52: Czechoslovak Central Committee Study of Security Policy, June 24, 1968 -- Document No. 53: Reports on the "Šumava" Exercise, July 1968 -- Document No. 54: Transcript of the Meeting of Five Warsaw Pact States in Warsaw, July 14-15, 1968 -- Document No. 55: Czechoslovak and East German Views on the Warsaw Pact, July 1968 -- Document No. 56: Report by East German Defense Minister on the Invasion of Czechoslovakia, August 22, 1968 -- Document No. 57: Record of Meeting between President Ludvík Svoboda and Czechoslovak Army Officers, August 28, 1968 -- Document No. 58: Letter from the East German Deputy Defense Minister to Erich Honecker about His Conversation with Marshal Iakubovskii, August 31, 1968 -- Document No. 59: Report by the East German Defense Minister on NATO's "Fallex 68/Golden Rod" Exercise, November 21, 1968 -- Document No. 60: Czechoslovak-Soviet Agreement on the Stationing of Soviet Nuclear Forces, November 13-14, 1968 -- Document No. 61: Czechoslovak General Staff Study on the Warsaw Treaty, December 21, 1968 -- PART THREE - THE ALLIANCE AT ITS PEAK -- Document No. 62: New Secret Statutes of the Warsaw Pact, March 17, 1969 -- Document No. 63: Appeal for a European Security Conference, March 17, 1969 -- Document No. 64: Report by Ceaușescu to the Romanian Politburo on the Political Consultative Committee Meeting in Budapest, March 18, 1969 -- Document No. 65: Polish Army Report on East German Misbehavior during the "Oder-Neisse-69" Exercise, October 22, 1969 -- Document No. 66: Speech by Marshal Grechko at the "Zapad" Exercise, October 16, 1969.

Document No. 67: Hungarian Foreign Ministry Memorandum of Soviet-Hungarian Consultations on the European Security Conference, October 18, 1969 -- Document No. 68: Polish Proposals for the Conference on Security and Disarmament, October 24, 1969 -- Document No. 69: East German Evaluation of Polish Proposal for a European Security Treaty, November 13, 1969 -- Document No. 70: Speech by Grechko at the First Meeting of the Warsaw Pact Committee of Ministers of Defense, December 22, 1969 -- Document No. 71: Hungarian Report of Warsaw Pact Summit on Policy toward West Germany, January 7, 1970 -- Document No. 72: Minutes of Romanian Politburo Meeting Concerning the Ceaușescu-Brezhnev Conversation, May 20, 1970 -- Document No. 73: The Surrender of Hannover according to the Polish Army's "Bison" Exercise, April 21-28, 1971 -- Document No. 74: Transcript of Romanian Politburo Meeting on Ceaușescu'sTrip to Asia and Moscow, June 25, 1971 -- Document No. 75: Comparison of Warsaw Treaty and NATO Positions concerningthe European Security Conference, December 1, 1971 -- Document No. 76: Hungarian Memorandum on the Deputy Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Moscow, February 3, 1975 -- Document No. 77: Iakubovskii Report on the State of the Unified Armed Forces, December 31, 1975 -- Document No. 78: Evaluation of the Helsinki Final Act by the Czechoslovak Party Presidium, April 28, 1976 -- Document No. 79: Czechoslovak Analysis of the "Soiuz 77" Exercise, March 21-29, 1977 -- Document No. 80: Description of Activities of an East German Spy inside NATO, April-May 1977 -- Document No. 81: Marshal Ogarkov Analysis of the "Zapad" Exercise, May 30-June 9, 1977 -- Document No. 82: Report by Marshal Kulikov on the State of the Unified Armed Forces, January 30, 1978 -- Document No. 83: Soviet Statement at the Chiefs of General Staff Meeting in Sofia, June 12-14, 1978.

Document No. 84: Speech by Brezhnev at the Political Consultative Committee Meeting in Moscow, November 22, 1978.

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