Tag: Soviet Union
The Marshall Plan, 1947–1948: Moscow’s Response and European Recovery
The Marshall Plan: the Soviet response and the chronology of European recoveryThe Albanian article presents a Soviet statement preserved in an archival file attributed...
A Soviet Call for Communist Unity: A Document Addressed to the...
A Russian-language document reproduced with this article is addressed to the Central Committee of the Albanian Party of Labour. The visible page discusses disagreements...
The Sino-Soviet Split: Todor Zhivkov at Bucharest, June 1960
June, 1960. And the document you are about to hear now… is the internal meeting transcript, presented here through an account of its opening...
Władysław Gomułka at the Bucharest Meeting (1960): The Speech That Openly...
In June 1960, representatives of all the communist parties of the socialist countries gathered in Bucharest. Officially, the meeting was aimed at “strengthening unity...
Walter Ulbricht and the Chinese Delegation: The Bucharest Meeting of 1960
In June 1960, in a closed room in Bucharest, Walter Ulbricht openly accused the Chinese of undermining the policy of peaceful coexistence and general disarmament. The minutes of the meeting, preserved in the archives, show that the Soviet-Chinese rift had begun much earlier than we think.