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Cuban Missile Crisis JCC: USSR
asdf PMUNC 2015 Cuban Missile Crisis JCC: USSR Chair: Jacob Sackett-Sanders JCC PMUNC 2015 Contents Chair Letter…………………………………………………………………...3 Introduction……………….………………………………………………….4 Topics of Concern………………………...………………….………………6 The Space Race…...……………………………....………………….....6 The Third World...…………………………………………......………7 The Eastern Bloc………………………………………………………9 The Chinese Communists…………………………………………….10 De-Stalinization and Domestic Reform………………………………11 Committee Members….……………………………………………………..13 2 JCC PMUNC 2015 Chair’s Letter Dear Delegates, It is my great pleasure to give you an early welcome to PMUNC 2015. My name is Jacob, and I’ll be your chair, helping to guide you as you take on the role of the Soviet political elites circa 1961. Originally from Wilmington, Delaware, at Princeton I study Slavic Languages and Literature. The Eastern Bloc, as well as Yugoslavia, have long been interests of mine. Our history classes and national consciousness often paints them as communist enemies, but in their own ways, they too helped to shape the modern world that we know today. While ultimately failed states, they had successes throughout their history, contributing their own shares to world science and culture, and that’s something I’ve always tried to appreciate. Things are rarely as black and white as the paper and ink of our textbooks. During the conference, you will take on the role of members of the fictional Soviet Advisory Committee on Centralization and Global Communism, a new semi-secret body intended to advise the Politburo and other major state organs. You will be given unmatched power but also faced with a variety of unique challenges, such as unrest in the satellite states, an economy over-reliant on heavy industry, and a geopolitical sphere of influence being challenged by both the USA and an emerging Communist China. -
Policy-Roundtable-1-5BG.Pdf
H-Diplo | ISSF POLICY Series America and the World—2017 and Beyond Stalin, Trump, and the Politics of Narcissism: A Response to Rose McDermott’s “The Nature of Narcissism.” Essay by Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork, Emeritus, and Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 2018-2019 Published on 29 June 2018 | issforum.org Editor: Diane Labrosse Web and Production Editor: George Fujii Shortlink: http://tiny.cc/PR-1-5BG Permalink: http://issforum.org/roundtables/policy/1-5BG-Stalin PDF URL: http://issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/Policy-Roundtable-1-5BG.pdf was intrigued by Rose McDermott’s piece on “The Nature of Narcissism”.1 As a narrative historian of international relations, I appreciated her call for analysis of the “influence of individual-level differences on international outcomes.” Central to narrative history is the reconstruction and analysis of the actions Iand interactions of individuals, as well as people’s goals, motivations, feelings, and experiences. However, I was startled by her characterisation of Joseph Stalin as a narcissist like Donald. Trump. It would be difficult to imagine two more different personalities; during decades of work in Stalin’s personal archives it never occurred to me he was a narcissist. Indeed, based on McDermott’s description of narcissism I would say that Stalin was the complete opposite (more on Trump below). While Stalin’s personality cult performed a political function, he displayed no personal need for such grandiosity. Nor did he seek validation and approval from others (except maybe Vladimir Lenin) or rely on external referents for his self-esteem. Stalin’s rejection and sometimes emotional response to criticism was based on strong beliefs, not a fragile ego. -
Biographyelizabethbentley.Pdf
Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet 1 of 284 QUEEN RED SPY Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet 2 of 284 3 of 284 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet RED SPY QUEEN A Biography of ELIZABETH BENTLEY Kathryn S.Olmsted The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 4 of 284 © 2002 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Charter, Champion, and Justlefthand types by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Olmsted, Kathryn S. Red spy queen : a biography of Elizabeth Bentley / by Kathryn S. Olmsted. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8078-2739-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Bentley, Elizabeth. 2. Women communists—United States—Biography. 3. Communism—United States— 1917– 4. Intelligence service—Soviet Union. 5. Espionage—Soviet Union. 6. Informers—United States—Biography. I. Title. hx84.b384 o45 2002 327.1247073'092—dc21 2002002824 0605040302 54321 Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 5 of 284 To 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet my mother, Joane, and the memory of my father, Alvin Olmsted Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 Tseng 2003.10.24 14:06 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet 6 of 284 7 of 284 Contents Preface ix 6655 Olmsted / RED SPY QUEEN / sheet Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1. -
The Vietnam War As China's Watershed
the vietNAM wAr As chiNA’s wAtershed China today is a rising superpower and a major challenger to American hegemony. Te industrialization and modernization that other nations achieved in centuries, China has compressed to a few decades. Indeed, all too ofen, we forget how meager were China’s origins before its recent rise. By the mid-20th Century, China remained extremely poor and militarily weakened, having sufered the Century of Humiliation and the Japanese Invasion. Tese trends would begin to change, however, during the Vietnam War of the 1960s and 1970s. Tis paper tracks how the Chinese leadership used their involvement in Vietnam to work toward three goals: frst, to legitimize Mao’s military theories; second, to damage Soviet international prestige in the Communist movement; and third, to secure an advantageous post-war relationship with the United States. In achieving these goals, the Chinese used Vietnam as a springboard for future geopolitical relevance and development. By Christian Talley ‘16 Vanderbilt University ne of the most important trends in Vietnam War his- toriography has been the shif from a stale East ver- Osus West analysis and toward an examination of the competing intra-bloc interests of the Soviets, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Historians such as Lien-Hang Nguyen have re- cently reconstructed Hanoi’s perspective, demonstrating that North Vietnam’s leaders were torn between their commu- nist patrons in Beijing and Moscow as a result of the Sino- Soviet split. Just as important is the perspective of China in this seminal confict. At the beginning of the Vietnam War, China was an impoverished junior partner in the world communist movement. -
Political and Economic Roots of the Turbulent Political System, Or Why and How the World of 1991–2021 Was Born
Andrey FURSOV , Ph.D. 1 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROOTS OF THE TURBULENT POLITICAL SYSTEM, OR WHY AND HOW THE WORLD OF 1991–2021 WAS BORN https://doi.org/10.18485/iipe_balkans_rssc.2020.ch2 Abstract : The world political system of the last 30 years (since December 1989) is characterized by immense and growing turbulence: more and more acts of Western aggression (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya), more and more local conflicts to the benefit of transnational corporations, more and more grey zones (the latter fact reflects both the ‘fading away’ of the nation- state and the criminalization of world politics and world economy). Is there one single factor explaining these events, or do we just have a mosaic of disorderly chaos? Being far from cheap conspirology discourse and working strictly within the political-economic approach to the history of the capitalist system, which is largely a cryptohistory, the author thinks that the fact determining the turbo transformation of world politics is the dismantling of the capitalist system (The fact that this system does not correspond to the current world is acknowledged officially even by the ‘wizards of Davos’). Partly it is elemental, but to a larger extent, it is the process of chaos organized by global elites. The problem is that in the process of the battle for the future, first, there are more and more contradictions between rival elite groups (the Anglo-Saxons and Europeans, moderate and radical globalists, financiers and industrialists, etc., let alone occult differences), and, secondly, the process of dismantling spins out of control increasingly. This creates a combination of organized and disorderly chaos in world politics, which makes it difficult to analyze it adequately. -
The Sino-Soviet Rift and Chinese Policy Toward Vietnam, 19641968
KBreahooking the Ring of Encirclement Breaking the Ring of Encirclement The Sino-Soviet Rift and Chinese Policy toward Vietnam, 1964–1968 ✣ Nicholas Khoo Introduction The “secret speech” delivered by Nikita Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at the CPSU’s Twentieth Congress in February 1956 was viewed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a serious error.1 The disagreements that emerged between Moscow and Beijing on this issue ushered in an extended period in which the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Soviet Union actively competed for inºuence both inside and outside the Communist world.2 Perhaps the most signiªcant consequence of their rivalry was the de facto termination of the Sino-Soviet alliance, a development that altered global and regional power re- lations.3 How did the failure of the Sino-Soviet alliance affect the triangular rela- tionship between the Chinese, Soviet, and Vietnamese Communist parties 1. A discussion of Mao’s immediate reaction to Khrushchev’s speech can be found in Yang Kuisong, Mao Zedong yu Mosike de enen yuanyuan (Jiangxi, China: Jiangxi renmin chubanshe, 1999), pp. 371– 400. See also, Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. 1, Contradictions among the People 1956–57 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974), pp. 39–56. For an analysis of the escalating Sino-Soviet conºict before the de facto termination of the alliance, see Donald Zagoria, The Sino-Soviet Conºict, 1956–61 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962). 2. For contemporary analysis of the escalating Sino-Soviet conºict after the de facto termination of the alliance, see Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conºict (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Uni- versity Press, 1967), pp. -
Economic Growth in the Governance of the Cold War Divide Mikoyan's
Economic Growth in the Governance of the Cold War Divide Mikoyan’s Encounter with Japan, Summer 1961 ✣ Oscar Sanchez-Sibony Noguchi Yoshio had written to him after all. Anastas Mikoyan had been re- tired for ten years. The year was 1975, and to mark Mikoyan’s 80th birthday, Noguchi had sent the retired Soviet official a souvenir.1 He was not the only one to remember Mikoyan in his retirement. Writing in 1972 on the occasion of his oil company’s 60th anniversary, the redoubtable Idemitsu Sazo sent to Mikoyan—in the somewhat bewildered words of then-Soviet ambassador to Japan Oleg Troyanovskii—a “piece of cloth.”2 Matsubara Yosamatsu, presi- dent of the industrial and shipbuilding conglomerate Hitachi Zosen, chose a more personal note. In his letter, he recounted to Mikoyan the first time they met in August 1961 during Mikoyan’s tour of the corporation’s shipyard in Sakurajima, as well as their encounter a year later when Matsubara headed a delegation of Japanese businessmen in Moscow. “Ten years have passed since then,” he wistfully wrote to the Old Bolshevik. “And in that time, economic relations between our two countries strengthen with every year as trade rela- tions develop between our countries even more greatly.”3 Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sato Eisaku also recalled that fateful year, writing in his personal letter to Mikoyan: “I am sincerely glad that relations between Japan and the Soviet Union, especially after your visit to Japan in 1961, continue to develop 1. Mikoyan’s thank-you note dates from 1 December 1975 and is stored in Russian State Archive of Sociopolitical History (RGASPI), Fond (F.) 84, Opis’ (Op.) 3, Delo (D.) 108, List (L.) 43. -
Frontier Politics and Sino-Soviet Relations: a Study of Northwestern Xinjiang, 1949-1963
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2017 Frontier Politics And Sino-Soviet Relations: A Study Of Northwestern Xinjiang, 1949-1963 Sheng Mao University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Mao, Sheng, "Frontier Politics And Sino-Soviet Relations: A Study Of Northwestern Xinjiang, 1949-1963" (2017). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 2459. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2459 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2459 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Frontier Politics And Sino-Soviet Relations: A Study Of Northwestern Xinjiang, 1949-1963 Abstract This is an ethnopolitical and diplomatic study of the Three Districts, or the former East Turkestan Republic, in China’s northwest frontier in the 1950s and 1960s. It describes how this Muslim borderland between Central Asia and China became today’s Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture under the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The Three Districts had been in the Soviet sphere of influence since the 1930s and remained so even after the Chinese Communist takeover in October 1949. After the Sino- Soviet split in the late 1950s, Beijing transformed a fragile suzerainty into full sovereignty over this region: the transitional population in Xinjiang was demarcated, border defenses were established, and Soviet consulates were forced to withdraw. As a result, the Three Districts changed from a Soviet frontier to a Chinese one, and Xinjiang’s outward focus moved from Soviet Central Asia to China proper. The largely peaceful integration of Xinjiang into PRC China stands in stark contrast to what occurred in Outer Mongolia and Tibet. -
The Importance of Osthandel: West German-Soviet Trade and the End of the Cold War, 1969-1991
The Importance of Osthandel: West German-Soviet Trade and the End of the Cold War, 1969-1991 Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University By Charles William Carter, M.A. Graduate Program in History The Ohio State University 2012 Dissertation Committee: Professor Carole Fink, Advisor Professor Mansel Blackford Professor Peter Hahn Copyright by Charles William Carter 2012 Abstract Although the 1970s was the era of U.S.-Soviet détente, the decade also saw West Germany implement its own form of détente: Ostpolitik. Trade with the Soviet Union (Osthandel) was a major feature of Ostpolitik. Osthandel, whose main feature was the development of the Soviet energy-export infrastructure, was part of a broader West German effort aimed at promoting intimate interaction with the Soviets in order to reduce tension and resolve outstanding Cold War issues. Thanks to Osthandel, West Germany became the USSR’s most important capitalist trading partner, and several oil and natural gas pipelines came into existence because of the work of such firms as Mannesmann and Thyssen. At the same time, Moscow’s growing emphasis on developing energy for exports was not a prudent move. A lack of economic diversification resulted, a development that helped devastate the USSR’s economy after the oil price collapse of 1986 and, in the process, destabilize the communist bloc. Against this backdrop, the goals of some West German Ostpolitik advocates—especially German reunification and a peaceful resolution to the Cold War—occurred. ii Dedication Dedicated to my father, Charles William Carter iii Acknowledgements This project has been several years in the making, and many individuals have contributed to its completion. -
November 25, 1963 Top Secret Cipher Telegram from Anastas Mikoyan to CPSU Central Committee
Digital Archive digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org International History Declassified November 25, 1963 Top Secret Cipher Telegram from Anastas Mikoyan to CPSU Central Committee Citation: “Top Secret Cipher Telegram from Anastas Mikoyan to CPSU Central Committee,” November 25, 1963, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, Yeltsin documents given to Bill Clinton on 20 June 1999, US National Archives and Records Administration http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/117349 Summary: Mikoyan reports his recent conversations with US officials following JFK’s assassination. He reports that it is likely that Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, will likely maintain Kennedy’s policy on US- Soviet foreign relations. US Ambassador Thompson also talks to Mikoyan about US concerns about the Soviet press coverage of the assassination. Credits: This document was made possible with support from the Leon Levy Foundation. Original Language: Russian Contents: English Translation Scan of Original Document [handwritten: 1088/48121 [?] 11/26/1963 TOP SECRET 46 CIPHER TELEGRAM REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED Copy no. 12 WASHINGTON 54416 11 30 26 XI 63 54419 54417 Special no. 2002-2004 HIGHEST PRIORITY CC CPSU Today, during the President’s reception, I had a number of brief conversations with US officials. In the remarks of these persons, two things are worth noting: 1. All of them ([Secretary of State Dean] Rusk, [US Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn] Thompson, disarmament agency director Foster, high-ranking officials from the State Department), in addition to expressing their deep appreciation for the Soviet government’s decision to send its special representative to Kennedy’s funeral, made a point of saying from the outset they were sure that President Kennedy’s policy on Soviet-US relations, as well as US foreign policy in general, would be kept [the same] under the new president—Lyndon Johnson. -
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White Notebook #3 1 Translation of original notes from KGB archival files by Alexander Vassiliev (1993-1996) Translated by Steve Shabad, reviewed and edited by Alexander Vassiliev and John Earl Haynes (2007) [Pagination and formatting track the handwritten original notebook. Phrases in English in the original are italicized. Phrases that were transliterated from English to Russian in the original are in Arial font. Marginal comments in the left margin are chiefly page numbers from the archival file while those in the right margin are Vassiliev’s topic designations, his own comments, or notes to himself. Endnotes were added in translation.] ******************************************************************************************************************* File 55298 “Robert” Undated report by Sound on Bruce Minton (“Informator”): Informator, p.20 Bruce’s primary contact – Gregory Silvermaster, an economist at the Treasury Dept. An expert Silvermaster on sociology, has a command of Russian. Lives with Ludwig Ullmann, who is a friend of his. the White trusts Silvermaster and often asks for his advice, especially on matters pertaining to the same S.U. p.21 9/X – 1940 A report on Bruce Minton was received from Sound. (Real name is Richard Informator Bransten1). Comes from a well-to-do California family; joined the CP during the Calif. strike of 1934. Moved to NY, worked at the mag. “New Masses.” Divorced Louise Bransten and married Ruth McKenney. p.22 On assignment from Browder, he issues the bulletin “In Fact” together with Seldes. At “New Masses” at the same time. Repetition. p.23 Bruce meets with S-ter on a daily basis; the latter informs him of Washinton news. p.29 Report by Sound from 31.03.42 [On the evening of 26.03, Sound met with Greg and his wife.