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----- Original Message ----- From: "Parallel History Project" <php-info at sipo.gess.ethz.ch> To: <leighcmeyers at yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 6:29 AM Subject: PHP News, 4 July 2005
PHP News, 4 July 2005
Dear Madam, dear Sir,
1) REVISITING THE WARSAW PACT, 1955-1991
www.isn.ethz.ch/php/collections/coll_wapa.htm
A Cardboard Castle? An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact (ed. by Vojtech Mastny and Malcolm Byrne) was introduced to the European and American public at book launches in Vienna (11 May), Warsaw (14 May), and Washington (9 June). The Vienna event, which took place within the framework of the International Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Signing of the Austrian State Treaty, was held at the Institute of East European History of the University of Vienna. Organized by Mag. Wolfgang Mueller, it was hosted by Professor Arnold Suppan. Professor Norman Naimark, of Stanford University, and Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, former director of the National Security Agency, commented on the book, introducing a lively discussion by the audience.
In Warsaw, an audience of military and academic specialists was gathered at the Military Office of Historical Research on the day the Warsaw had been signed fifty years earlier. PHP associate Professor Andrzej Paczkowski, of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, together with Dr. Krzysztof Komorowski, director of the Military Office of Historical Research, organized the meeting. After the introduction of the book by its editors, Vojtech Mastny and Malcolm Byrne, Professor Paczkowski moderated a panel discussion. Participating in the panel were Gen. Odom, Gen. Tadeusz Pióro, the first Polish liaison to the staff of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact, and Gen. Leslaw Dudek, formerly deputy quartermaster of the Polish Army.
The Washington book launch was held under the auspices of the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. After introductions by the editors, Professor Lawrence S. Kaplan of Georgetown University, former director of the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies at Kent State University, and Rodric Q. Braithwaite, former British ambassador to Moscow and current Wilson Center Public Policy Fellow, commented. A discussion by the large audience followed.
Media articles related to the publication of A Cardboard Castle? are published at http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/news/media_desk.htm#Warsaw
On 26-27 May 2005, several PHP associates attended a two-day conference on "The Warsaw Pact: From Its Founding to Its Collapse," organized by the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP). See http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/conferences/previous_events.htm
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2) ALLIED MILITARY LIAISON MISSIONS, 1946-1990
www.isn.ethz.ch/php/collections/coll_mlm.htm
Based on Christopher Winkler's unpublished Ph.D. thesis, the PHP's most recent documentary is on the US, British and French Military Liaison Missions (MLM) in Potsdam near Berlin from 1946 to 1990, which were accredited with the High Command of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. Similarly, the Soviet Union had established three respective liaison missions with the high commands of the Western allies' forces in West Germany. While the US annual MLM reports are still classified for the years of the Berlin crisis (1958-63), the invasion of the CSSR (1968), and the Polish crisis (1980-81), the PHP collection consists of 28 documents obtained from the archives of the former Ministry for State Security (MfS) and SAPMO in Berlin. They touch on the position of the Soviet Union on the German question and on military and operational intelligence topics and moreover document the conflicts of the GDR with Moscow about the legitimacy of the Western MLM on GDR territory - conflicts that were solved through authoritative decisions by Moscow. The "dog was wagging its tail" with regard to the politically sensitive and extraordinary relict of Four-power control over Germany. Two documents concern the deaths of two Western MLM members in the GDR in 1984 and 1985 that have become subject of controversy ever since. In his introduction, Winkler addresses the relevance of the missions in military and intelligence regards and explores why Moscow tolerated the activities of Western MLM, which partly operated as de facto mobile on-site inspection teams with extensive authority. Of particular interest is Winkler's analysis of the delicate legal fundament of the MLM, contrasting with Allied rights concerning Berlin.
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4) FINDING AIDS "VERWALTUNG AUFKLÄRUNG" (MILITARY INTELLIGENCE), GERMAN MILITARY ARCHIVES, FREIBURG i.Br.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/collections/coll_3_Finding_Aids.htm
Complementing the document collections on Stasi Intelligence on NATO (www.isn.ethz.ch/php/collections/coll_17.htm), the finding aids "Verwaltung Aufklärung" describe available material in the German military archives in Freiburg i.Br. on GDR military intelligence. These intelligence reports allow insights into NATO military exercises and NATO military planning in the 1970s and 1980s - material that is still largely classified in the NATO archives and the archives of NATO member states. In his preface (in German), Heinz Marluff discusses the substantial collection. The 404-page finding aids will help scholars to effectively prepare for a research stay in Freiburg. A few sample documents indicate the range of material that can be found in the described series.
5) THE COLD WAR HISTORY OF SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/research/AreaStudies/area_studies.htm#3
Seven articles by scholars from Taiwan, China and Japan investigate Sino-Soviet relations, based on published material from Chinese historical archives: Introduction by Shen Zhihua; 1) The Sino-Soviet Alliance and Nationalism: A Contradiction, by Yang Kuisong; 2) Learning from the Soviet Union: CPC Propaganda and Its Effects, by Yu Minling; 3) The 20th Party Congress of the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's Tortuous Path, by Lin Yunhui; 4) A Brief Analaysis of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, by Mori Kazuko; 5) The Impact of the Bombardment of Jinmen in 1958 upon Sino-Soviet Relations, by Dai Chaowu; 6) The Great Leap Forward, the People's Communes and the Rupture of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, by Shen Zhihua; 7) Comrades Plus Brothers: Sino-Soviet Border Relations in the 1950s, by Li Danhui.
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Stay tuned!
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