Issue Contents:

• "Director's Note" - Christian Ostermann

New Evidence on the End of the Cold War

• "New Evidence on the Soviet Factor in the Peaceful Revolutions of 1989" - Vladislav M. Zubok
• "On the Eve: A Glimpse Inside the Politburo at the End of 1988"
• "The Tbilisi Massacre, April 1989: Documents"
• "Soviet Approaches to Eastern Europe at the Beginning of 1989" - Jacques Lévesque
• "The Political Transition in Hungary, 1989-90" - Csaba Békés and Melinda Kalmár
• "Hungarian Secret Police Memorandum, May 1989"
• "Poland 1986-1989: From 'Cooptation' to 'Negotiated Revolution'" - Paweł Machcewicz
• "The Fall of the Wall: The Unintended Dissolution of East Germany’s Ruling Regime" - Hans-Hermann Hertle
• "1989: Bulgarian Transition to Pluralist Democracy" - Jordan Baev
• "Czechoslovak November 1989" - Oldrich Tuma
• "Czechoslovak Regime Documents on the Velvet Revolution"
• "We Are the Opponents of Violence...We Want to Live as Dignified and Free People"
• "The Last Days of a Dictator" - Mircea Munteanu
• "At Historic Crossroads: Documents on the December 1989 Malta Summit"

New Evidence on the Cold War in Asia

• "The Khrushchev-Mao Conversations, 31 July-3 August 1958 and 2 October 1959" - Vladislav M. Zubok
• "Le Duan and the Break with China" - Stein Tønnesson
• "Comrade B on the Plot of the Reactionary Chinese Clique Against Vietnam" - Christopher E. Goscha

New Evidence on Cold War Military History

• "Planning for Nuclear War: The Czechoslovak War Plan of 1964" - Petr Lûnák
• "Operation Atom: The Soviet Union’s Stationing of Nuclear Missiles in the German Democratic Republic, 1959" - Matthias Uhl and Vladimir I. Ivkin

New Evidence on the Iran Crisis 1945-46

• "From the Baku Archives"

New Evidence from the Former Yugoslav Archives

• "The Tito-Khrushchev Correspondence, 1954"

Research Notes and Conference Reports

• "The Moldovan Communist Party Archives" - Jim Hershberg
• "Moldova, Romania and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia" - Mark Kramer
• "The Sino-Soviet Alliance: New Publications" - David Wolff
• "Policymakers and the Cold War’s End: Micro and Macro Assessments of Contingency" - Richard K. Herrman and Richard Ned Lebow
• "Conference on Cold War Endgame" - Fred I. Greenstein and William C. Wohlforth
• "New Evidence on China, Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War: Conference Report" - Priscilla Roberts
• "Update on the Stasi Archives" - Gary Bruce
• "Western Intelligence Gathering and the Division of German Science" - Paul Maddrell
• "Letters to the Editor"