How Declassified Documents Uncovered by the National Security Archive Illuminate the History of the USSR, Russia and CEE

In this presentation, Blanton and Savranskaya will draw on materials from the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental organization based at George Washington University. The lecture will use archival materials in order to illuminate significant historical events, including high-level summits between the US and the USSR, the remarkable 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe, and discussions on NATO expansion that Gorbachev and Yeltsin held with US and European leaders.