ARCHIVAL REVIEW: Collecting and Assembling Pieces of the Jigsaw: Coping with Cold War Archives

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Notes

Jonathan Haslam, Centre for International Studies, Cambridge

Let me acknowledge the advice and criticism of the following: David Holloway, David Reynolds Zara Steiner, Robert Jervis and Arne Westad.

 1. John le Carré, Absolute Friends (London, 2004), p.21.

 2. Owen Chadwick, Acton and History (Cambridge, 1998), p.57.

 3. See www.cwihp.si.edu. This was the brainchild of John Gaddis of Yale, operated to great effect by the single-mindedness of that energumen Jim Hershberg, now at George Washington University.

 4. See www.gwu.edu/∼ nsarchiv. This was the inspiration of investigative journalist Scott Armstrong, developed with panache and tireless determination by Tom Blanton.

 5. See www.isn.ethz.ch/php.

 6. SSSR i germanskii vopros, 1941–1949: dokumentyiz arkhiva vneshnei politiki Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Moscow, 1996–).

 7. T. Volokitina (ed.), Vostochnaia Evropa v dokumentakh rossiiskikh arkhivov 1944–1953, 2 vols. (Moscow, 1997–98).

 8. A. Fursensko (ed.), Prezidium TsK KPSS 1954–1964, vol.1 (Moscow, 2003).

 9. Quoted in Chadwick, Acton, p.29.

10. Kimball to Slatkin, 1 April 1997: www.fas.org/sgp/advisory/state/kimball.html.

11. See www.gwu.edu/∼nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB52.

12. N. Cullather, Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954, (Standford 1999).

13. Announcement from the Bureau of Public Affairs, US Department of State, 15 May 2003: www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/ike/guat/20806.html.

14. Reprinted in CIA Targets Fidel (Melbourne, 1996). Also www.foia.cia.gor

15. For what is available now in print: S. Holtsmark (ed.), Norge og Sovjetunionen 1917–1955: En utenrikespolitisk dokumentasjon (Oslo, 1995), docs.266–311. There is also a Russian edition.

16. C. Andrew, The Mitrokhin Archive: the KGB in Europe and the West (London, 2000).

17. ‘One Hell of a Gamble’: Khrushchev, Castro, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1958–1964 (London, 1997).

18. E-mail email: [email protected] or telephone [phone]; fax [phone].

19. E-mail email: [email protected] or telephone [phone]; fax [phone].

20. Fax [phone] or 007-095-241-51-06. The MID website is, unfortunately, completely useless to researchers: a mere display case with no means given of contacting the archives.

21. See www.gorby.ru.

22. For all the detail on access in the Farnesina: L. Nuti, ‘Sources for the Study of Italian Foreign Policy, 1861–1999’, Cold War History 2/3 (April 2002), pp.93–110. All relevant details for contacting the ministry contained therein.

23. See www.gramsci.it. The archivist is Giovanna Bosman, who can be reached by e-mail at email: [email protected]. The telephone number is 00-39-06-5806646.

24. See P. Ludlow, ‘No Longer a Closed Shop: Post-1945 Research in the French Archives’, Cold War History 2/1 (Oct. 2001), pp.158–63. All relevant addresses and contact numbers listed therein.

25. The last volume deals with the war and the resistance: P. Spriano, Storia del Partito comunista italiano. iv. La fine del fascismo. Dall riscossa operaia alla lotta armata (Turin, 1973).

26. See http://archivi.beniculturali.it/ACS/patrimonio.html. NB At the time of publication the English-language version of the website is under reconstruction.

27. G. Procacci (ed.), The Cominform: Minutes of Three Conferences 1947/1948/1949 (Milan, 1994).

28. Annali, XIX, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 1978 (Milan, 1978).

29. Contact Ursula Rey Gonzalez Zaluar – email: [email protected]. The fax is 00-55-61-411-6591.

30. Website: www.minrel.cl/pages/administrativos/dirasad/archivo/index.html. E-mail: email: [email protected].

31. I am grateful to Dr Arne Westad of LSE for information on both South Africa and China.

32. Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976 (Chapel Hill, MD and London, 2002).

33. See http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/arch_web.html.

34. This approach was effectively attacked by Lawrence Stone in The Past and the Present (London, 1981), pp.107 ff. For a stout defence: R. Fogel and G. Elton, Which Road to the Past? Two Views of History (New Haven, CT and London, 1983), p.87.

35. F. Chuev, Molotov Remembers (Chicago, 1993). An expanded Russian edition is now available.

36. P. Sudoplatov, The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness (London and New York, 1994). A new Russian edition now available.

37. See Haslam, ‘Soviet Russia and the Spanish Problem’, in R. Boyce and J. Maiolo (eds.), The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues (London and New York, 2003), p.79.