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

Edited by Vojtech Mastny, Malcolm Byrne, Anna Locher, and Christian Nuenlist
May 2005

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The Formative Years, 1955-1965

14 May 1955	Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance
5 Sep 1955	Statute of the Warsaw Pact Unified Command
1 Nov 1956	Imre Nagy's Telegram to Diplomatic Missions in Budapest Declaring Hungary's Neutrality
3 Nov 1956	Gen. Jan Drzewiecki's Critique of the Statute of the Unified Command
10 Jan 1957	Polish Memorandum on Reform of the Warsaw Pact
8 May 1997	Interview with Gen. Jan Drzewiecki
25 Sep 1957	Soviet Directives to the Czechoslovak Army on Operational and Combat Preparations
24 May 1958	Draft of a Warsaw Pact-NATO Nonaggression Treaty
31 Mar 1959	Marshal Ivan Konev's Analysis of a Czechoslovak Army Operational Exercise
31 Mar 1959	Conclusions from the Operational Exercise of the Czechoslovak Army
29 Jul 1959	East German Description of a West German Plan for Conflict With East Germany
28 Apr 1960	Warsaw Pact Views of NATO's Plans and Capabilities
22 Mar 1961	The Soviet-Albanian Dispute: Albanian Memorandum on Incidents at Vlorë Naval Base
28 Mar 1961	The Soviet-Albanian Dispute: Albanian Defense Minister (Beqir Balluku) to the Supreme Commander of the Joint Armed Forces (Andrei A. Grechko)
29 Mar 1961	Secret Resolution on Restructuring and Modernization of Warsaw Pact Armed Forces in 1961-65
29 Mar 1961	The Soviet-Albanian Dispute: Secret Resolution on Albania
5 Apr 1961	The Soviet-Albanian Dispute: Reply by Albanian Premier Mehmet Shehu to the Political Consultative Committee
18 Apr 1961	Czechoslovakia's Strategic Position in a European War
May 1961	Speech by Marshal Rodion Malinovskii Describing the Need for Warsaw Pact Offensive Operations
May 1961	The Soviet-Albanian Dispute: Soviet Memorandum on the Vlorë Incidents
3 Jun 1961	The Soviet-Albanian Dispute: Soviet Note to the Albanian Government
25 Jul 1961	Czechoslovak Politburo Resolution on Mobilization Readiness with Respect to the Berlin Question
13 Aug 1961	Joint Declaration of the Warsaw Treaty States on the Berlin Wall (Draft)
14 Sep 1961	Resolution by the Czechoslovak Communist Party's Military Defense Commission on the Introduction of Emergency Measures
22 Nov 1962	Organizational Principles of the Czechoslovak Army
23 Apr 1963	The Mazowsze Exercise: Preparing for Nuclear War
undated	The Mazowsze Exercise: Interview with Gen. Tadeusz Tuczapski
14 Jun 1963	Polish Command Post Exercise Rehearsing Advance to Northern Germany, Low Countries, and Denmark
15 Jul 1963	Mongolian Request for Admission to the Warsaw Pact
20 Jul 1963	Polish Foreign Ministry Memorandum Regarding Mongolia's Possible Accession to the Warsaw Treaty
28 Sep 1963	The Buria Exercise: Speech by East German Defense Minister Heinz Hoffmann
28 Sep 1963	The Buria Exercise: Recollections of Polish General Tadeusz Pióro
28 Jun 1964	Czechoslovak Measures for Occupied Western European Territories: Order of the Commander of the Western Front
29 Jun 1964	Czechoslovak Measures for Occupied Western European Territories: Safe Conduct (Surrender Pass) for NATO Soldiers
29 Jun 1964	Czechoslovak Measures for Occupied Western European Territories: Appeal to French Soldiers
14 Oct 1964	Warsaw Pact War Plan of 1964
1965	Warsaw Pact Intelligence on NATO's Strategy and Combat-Readiness

The Crisis, 1965-1968

15 Jan 1965	Note by the Albanian Government to the PCC
20 Jan 1965	Polish Minutes of Discussion at the PCC Meeting in Warsaw
May 1965	Plan for Hungarian Command-Staff War Game
26 Jul 1965	Stenographic Transcript of Ceauşescu-Deng Conversation
18 Jan 1966	Hungarian Proposals for Warsaw Pact Reform: Proposal by the Defense Minister (Lajos Czinege)
19 Jan 1966	Hungarian Proposals for Warsaw Pact Reform: Proposal by the Hungarian Foreign Minister (János Péter))
21 Jan 1966	Polish Proposals for Warsaw Pact Reform: Proposal by Polish Foreign Minister (Adam Rapacki)
26 Jan 1966	Polish Proposals for Warsaw Pact Reform: Proposal by the Defense Ministry
Feb 1966	Czechoslovak Proposal for Reform of the Warsaw Pact
4 Feb 1966	Statement by the Romanian Chief of Staff on Reform of the Warsaw Pact
17 Feb 1966	Summary of Discussion at Conference of Warsaw Treaty Deputy Foreign Ministers
22 Feb 1966	Study of the Special Features of a Surprise Outbreak of War
27 May 1966	Memorandum of the Conference of Defense Ministers
14 Jun 1966	Memorandum of the Conference of Foreign Ministers
5 Jul 1966	Polish Minutes of the PCC Meeting
25 Apr 1967	Transcript of Meeting of Warsaw Pact Leaders in Karlovy Vary
1967	East German Analysis of NATO's "Fallex 66" Exercise
7 Oct 1967	Report on the State of the Bulgarian Army in the Wake of the Middle East War
2 Mar 1968	Memorandum on Results of Meeting of Commanders-in-Chief Regarding Reorganization of Warsaw Pact
13 Mar 1968	Remarks by the Czechoslovak Chief of Staff on the Theory of Local War
26 Mar 1968	Czechoslovak Report on the PCC Meeting
19 Apr 1968	Record of Gomułka-Iakubovsky Conversation in Warsaw
3 Jun 1968	Report by Romanian Defense Minister General Ion Ioniţă to Nicolae Ceauşescu on the PCC Meeting of the Warsaw Pact in Sofia
4 Jun 1968	Memorandum of the Academic Staff of the Czechoslovak Military Academies on Czechoslovakia's Defense Doctrine
11 Jun 1968	Action Program of the Czechoslovak Army
24 Jun 1968	Czechoslovak Central Committee Study of Security Policy
4 Jul 1968	The Šumava Exercise: Memorandum by Gen. Tadeusz Tuczapski
5 Jul 1968	The Šumava Exercise: Report by Generals István Oláh and Ferenc Szücs to the Hungarian Politburo
5 Jul 1968	The Šumava Exercise: Report by Gen. Fritz Streletz to the East German Defense Council
14 Jul 1968	Transcript of the Meeting of Five Warsaw Pact States in Warsaw
Jul 1968	Views on the Warsaw Pact: Czechoslovak Reformist Memorandum
29 Jul 1968	Views on the Warsaw Pact: East German Remarks
28 Aug 1968	Record of a Meeting Between Czechoslovak President Ludvík Svoboda and Army Officers
30 Aug 1968	Report by East German Defense Minister Heinz Hoffmann on the Invasion of Czechoslovakia
31 Aug 1968	Letter From East German Deputy Defense Minister Heinz Kessler to Erich Honecker About His Conversation with Marshal Yakubovsky
13 Nov 1968	Czechoslovak-Soviet Agreement on the Stationing of Soviet Nuclear Forces
21 Nov 1968	Report by East German Defense Minister Heinz Hoffmann on NATO's "Fallex 68 / Golden Rod" Exercise
21 Dec 1968	Czechoslovak General Staff Study on the Warsaw Treaty

The Alliance at its Peak, 1969-1978

17 Mar 1969	New Secret Statutes of the Warsaw Pact
17 Mar 1969	Appeal for a European Security Conference (Draft)
18 Mar 1969	Stenographic Transcript of the Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party
16 Oct 1969	Speech by Soviet Marshal Matvei Zakharov and Report by Marshal Andrei Grechko on the "Zapad" Exercise
18 Oct 1969	Foreign Ministry Memorandum to the HSWP Political Committee on Hungarian-Soviet Consultations on the European Security Conference
22 Oct 1969	Polish Army Report on East German Misbehavior During the "Oder-Neisse-69" Exercise
24 Oct 1969	Polish Proposals for the Conference on Security and Disarmament
22 Dec 1969	East German Evaluation of Polish Proposal for a Treaty on Principles of European Security and Cooperation
22 Dec 1969	Speech by Soviet Minister of Defense (Andrei Grechko): State and Plans of the Aggressive NATO Bloc
7 Jan 1970	Hungarian Report on Warsaw Pact Summit on Policy Toward West Germany
20 May 1970	Transcript of the Meeting of the Executive Committee [Politburo] of the Romanian Communist Party
28 Apr 1971	Message by the Commander of the Berlin Front (Gen. Florian Siwicki) to the Commander of the Fifth Army Concerning the Surrender of the Garrison in the City of Hannover
25 Jun 1971	Minutes of Conversation of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party
1 Dec 1971	Comparison of Warsaw Treaty and NATO Positions Concerning the European Security Conference
3 Feb 1975	Report on the Meeting of the Deputy Foreign Ministers
31 Dec 1975	Ivan Iakubovskii's Report on the State of the United Armed Forces
28 Apr 1976	Evaluation of the Helsinki Final Act by the Presidium of the Czechoslovak Communist Party
21 Mar 1977	Czechoslovak Analysis of the "Soiuz 77" Exercise
Apr 1977	Activities of an East German Spy Inside NATO
30 May 1977	Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov's Analysis of the "Zapad" Exercise
30 Jan 1978	Report by Marshal Viktor Kulikov on the State of the United Armed Forces
12 Jun 1978	Soviet Statement at the Meeting of the Chiefs of General Staff in Sofia
22 Nov 1978	Speech by the First Secretary of the CC of the CPSU, Leonid I. Brezhnev
24 Nov 1978	Minutes of the Romanian Politburo Meeting

The Incipient Decline, 1980-1987

18 Mar 1980	Statute on the Warsaw Pact's Command in Wartime
14 May 1980	Stenographic Record of the PCC Meeting in Warsaw
8 Jul 1980	Summary of the Preparatory Meeting of Deputy Foreign Ministers for the CSCE Conference in Madrid
8 Dec 1980	Bulgarian Report on the Defense Ministers' Meeting in Bucharest
19 Jan 1981	The Soviet Military's Attempts to End the Polish Crisis: Letter from East German Defense Minister Heinz Hoffmann to Erich Honecker
24 Apr 1981	The Soviet Military's Attempts to End the Polish Crisis: East German Report on the Military Council Meeting in Sofia
13 Jun 1981	Report on Conversation Between Marshal Viktor Kulikov and Senior East German Military Officials
Sep 1981	Information by Marshal Dmitri Ustinov on Soviet Strategic Offensive Forces
1 Dec 1981	Report on the Meeting of the Committee of Defense Ministers in Moscow
10 Dec 1981	Transcript of the Soviet Politburo Meeting on the Crisis in Poland
14 Jun 1982	East German Memorandum of Conversation with Dmitry Ustinov and Viktor Kulikov Concerning a Soviet War Game
8 Sep 1982	Report on Speech by Nikolai Ogarkov at a Warsaw Pact Chief of Staff Meeting in Minsk
16 Dec 1982	US and NATO Military Planning on Mission of V Corps/US Army During Crises and in Wartime
4 Jan 1983	Speech by the General Secretary of the CC of the CPSU (Yurii V. Andropov)
9 Jun 1983	The "Soyuz 83" Exercise: Analysis
28 Jun 1983	East German Summary of Warsaw Pact Summit in Moscow
2 Aug 1983	The "Soyuz 83" Exercise: Letter by Marshal Viktor Kulikov to Czechoslovak Defense Minister Martin Dzúr
13 Oct 1983	Minutes of CMFA Meeting in Sofia, 1983
5 Dec 1983	Statement by Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov at the CMD Meeting in Sofia
26 Apr 1984	Information Report
17 Aug 1984	Transcript of Honecker-Chernenko Meeting in Moscow
3 Dec 1984	Report by the Head of Soviet Military Intelligence to the Committee of Defense Ministers
26 Apr 1985	Speech by Mikhail Gorbachev at the Warsaw Treaty Summit in Moscow
11 Nov 1985	Warsaw Pact Report Concerning Improvements in NATO Military Technology
2 Dec 1985	Speech by Viktor Kulikov, Supreme Commander of the UAF, at the CMD Meeting in Strausberg
16 Dec 1985	East German Intelligence Assessment of NATO's Intelligence on Warsaw Pact
23 Dec 1985	Scenario for the "Granit 86" Exercise
19 Mar 1986	Summary of the Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs
28 Apr 1986	East German Intelligence Assessment of a West German Appraisal of the National People's Army: Summary
21 May 1986	Bulgarian Memorandum on the Bulgarian-Romanian Proposal for a Chemical Weapons-Free Zone in the Balkans
23 May 1986	East German Ideas Concerning a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in Central Europe: Memorandum on Negotiations with the West German Social Democratic Party
27 May 1986	East German Intelligence Assessment of a West German Appraisal of the National People's Army: Fritz Streletz's Evaluation
May 1986	East German Ideas Concerning a Nuclear Weapons-Free Zone in Central Europe: Proposal
11 Jun 1986	Record of the Discussions of Party Secretaries
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
18 Oct 1986	Czechoslovak Summary of the Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs
10 Nov 1986	Summary of Statements at the Military Council Meeting in Bucharest: Statement by Viktor Kulikov
10 Nov 1986	Summary of Statements at the Military Council Meeting in Bucharest: Statement by Nicolae Ceauşescu
1 Dec 1986	Creation and Combat Use of Air Assault and Marine Infantry Troops in the Allied Armies and Fleets (Summary)
28 Jan 1987	Outline of a Czechoslovak Command Post Exercise
24 Mar 1987	Report on the Committee of Ministers of Foreign Affairs Meeting in Moscow

Disintegration, 1987-1991

18 May 1987	Soviet Explanation of the Warsaw Pact's New Military Doctrine at the Chiefs of Staff Meeting in Moscow
27 May 1987	Records of the PCC Meeting in East Berlin: Reports by the East German Minister of Defense (Heinz Kessler) to the East German Head of State (Erich Honecker)
28 May 1987	Records of the PCC Meeting in East Berlin: Speech by the General Secretary of the CPSU (Mikhail S. Gorbachev)
29 May 1987	Public Statement on the Military Doctrine of the Warsaw Pact
29 May 1987	Records of the PCC Meeting in East Berlin: Stenographic Record of the Meeting of Party Secretaries Following the PCC Meeting
29 May 1987	Records of the PCC Meeting in Berlin: Comments by Nicolae Ceauşescu
14 Oct 1987	Summary of a Consultation of Chiefs of Staff in Moscow
26 Nov 1987	Remarks on Military-Technical Aspects of Warsaw Pact Military Doctrine and the Final Document of the Stockholm Conference
11 Mar 1988	Proposal to Establish a Warsaw Pact Information and Propaganda Department
19 Mar 1988	Memorandum of Conversation between Soviet Chief of Staff (Sergei Akhromeev) and East German Defense Minister (Heinz Kessler)
29 Mar 1988	Speech by the Soviet Foreign Minister (Edvard Shevardnadze)
29 Mar 1988	Speeches at the Committee of Foreign Ministers Meeting in Sofia: Speech by Oskar Fischer
30 Mar 1988	Draft of a Revised Wartime Statute for the Unified Command
17 May 1988	Summary of Statement by Marshal Sergei Akhromeev (Soviet Chief of Staff) on the Exchange of Data Between NATO and the Warsaw Pact
17 Jun 1988	Stenographic Transcript of the Meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party
27 Jun 1988	Memorandum of Conversation between the United Armed Forces' Supreme Commander (Viktor Kulikov) and the General Secretary of the East German Socialist Unity Party (Erich Honecker)
7 Jul 1988	Appendix 2 to the Report: Summary of Remarks by Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Head of State)
8 Jul 1988	Romanian Proposal for Warsaw Pact Reform: Letter of the CC of the Romanian Communist Party
8 Jul 1988	Romanian Proposal for Warsaw Pact Reform: Information Regarding the Romanian Proposal
15 Jul 1988	Speech by the General Secretary of the CPSU (Mikhail Gorbachev) in Warsaw
16 Jul 1988	Summary of Statements by the Warsaw Pact Defense Ministers at the PCC Meeting
19 Oct 1988	Appendix 2 to the Report on the 22nd CMD Meeting: Summary of the Statements Regarding the Discussion Outside the Agenda
15 Nov 1988	East German Evaluation of NATO's 1988 Fall Exercises
4 Dec 1988	Record of Conversation between General Secretary of the East German Socialist Unity Party (Erich Honecker) and East German Defense Minister (Heinz Kessler)
17 Dec 1988	Possible Strutural Reorientation of WP National Armed Forces Towards More Defensive Stance in the next Two to Three Years (Presentation)
10 Apr 1989	Report by the Bulgarian Foreign Minister (Petar Mladenov) at the Unofficial Meeting of Foreign Ministers near East Berlin
28 Apr 1989	Summary of Statement by the Soviet Defense Minister (Dimitry Iazov) to Warsaw Pact Chiefs of Staff
23 May 1989	Czechoslovak Description of "Vltava 89" Exercise
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
7 Jul 1989	Records of the PCC Meeting in Bucharest: Speech by the General Secretary of the CPSU (Mikhail Gorbachev)
7 Jul 1989	Records of the PCC Meeting in Bucharest: Speech by the East German Head of State (Erich Honecker)
7 Jul 1989	Records of the PCC Meeting in Bucharest: Speech by the President of the Republic of Poland (Wojciech Jaruzelski)
7 Jul 1989	Records of the PCC Meeting in Bucharest: Speech by the Chairman of the Hungarian Communist Party (Rezsö Nyers)
7 Jul 1989	Records of the PCC Meeting in Bucharest: Speech by the General Secretary of the PCR (Nicolae Ceauşescu)
7 Jul 1989	Records of the PCC Meeting in Bucharest: Recollections of East German Defense Minister (Heinz Kessler)
11 Jul 1989	Records of the PCC Meeting in Bucharest: East German Summary
26 Oct 1989	Speech by the Soviet Foreign Minister (Edvard Shevardnadze)
26 Oct 1989	Speech by the Hungarian Foreign Minister (Gyula Horn)
26 Oct 1989	Speech by the Polish Foreign Minister (Krzysztof Skubiszewski)
31 Oct 1989	Czechoslovak Summary
27 Nov 1989	East German Statement (Theodor Hoffmann, Minister of Defense)
21 Dec 1989	Memorandum of Conversation Between Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Aboimov and the Romanian Ambassador to the USSR
29 Jan 1990	Czechoslovak Report on a Meeting at the Soviet General Staff
12 Feb 1990	East German Summary of the Ottawa Meeting of NATO and Warsaw Pact Foreign Ministers
29 Apr 1990	Memorandum of Conversation between East German Minister for Disarmament and Defense (Rainer Eppelmann) and Soviet Defense Minister (Dimitri Iazov)
7 Jun 1990	Records of the PCC Meeting in Moscow: Public Declaration
8 Jun 1990	Records of the PCC Meeting in Moscow: East German Report
1990	Recollections of Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry Adviser Jaroslav Šedivý
25 Feb 1991	Agreement Concerning the Cessation of the Validity of the Military Understandings Concluded within the Framework of the Warsaw Treaty