CWIHP Bulletin No. 17/18 (Fall 2012): The Global Cuban Missile Crisis at 50
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Issue Contents:
Introductions
- "The Global Cuban Missile Crisis" - James G. Hershberg
- "The Cuban Missile Crisis Just Isn鈥檛 What It Used to Be" - Thomas S. Blanton
- "Back to the Archives: The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50" - Martin J. Sherwin
Asia
- "Sino-Cuban Relations and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1960-62: New Chinese Evidence" - Documents provided by Shen Zhihua and Sergey Radchenko; translated by Zhang Qian; introduced by James G. Hershberg and Sergey Radchenko
- "Japan and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Documents obtained, translated, and introduced by Masaki Hirata
- "The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Origins of North Korea鈥檚 Policy of Self-Reliance in National Defense" - Documents introduced by James F. Person
- "North Vietnam and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Pierre Asselin
- "Mongolia and the Cuban Missile Crisis鈥擜 Glimpse Inside the Ulaanbaatar Archives" - Document introduced and translated by Sergey Radchenko
Latin America
- "The Final Frontier: Cuban Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Introduced by James G. Hershberg
- "Chatting with Che: Conversations in 1961 between Cuban Revolutionary Ernesto Guevara and the Soviet Ambassador in Havana" - Brazilian Record of his Meeting in Punta del Este with JFK Aide Richard Goodwin; introduced by James G. Hershberg
- "Before the Bay of Pigs鈥擶hat Did the Cubans Know? Cuban Intelligence Reports, January-May 1961" - Introduced by James G. Hershberg
- "Mexican Diplomacy and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Documents from the Foreign Ministry Archives in Mexico City, introduced by Tanya Harmer
- "The Anti-Castro Cuban 脡migr茅 Forces: Mexican Documents, 1961-1963" - Obtained by Jorge Mendoza Castro; translated by Tanya Harmer
- "Brazil and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Documents from the Foreign Ministry Archives in Bras铆lia" - Obtained, translated, and introduced by James G. Hershberg
- "Chile and Brazilian Mediation during the Cuban Missile Crisis: Documents from the Foreign Ministry Archives in Santiago" - Obtained and translated by Eduardo Baudet and Tanya Harmer
Soviet Union
- "The Malin Notes: Glimpses Inside the Kremlin during the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Introduced by Timothy Naftali; translated and annotated by Mark Kramer with assistance from Timothy Naftali
- "A Trigger for Khrushchev鈥檚 Deployment? Alexei Adzhubei鈥檚 Report on His Conversation with John F. Kennedy, 30 January 1962" - Introduced by James G. Hershberg
- "The Polyansky Report on Khrushchev鈥檚 Mistakes in Foreign Policy, October 1964鈥擡xcerpt on The Cuban Missile Crisis" - Translated by Svetlana Savranskaya
- "The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Documents on Anastas Mikoyan鈥檚 November 1962 Trip to Cuba" - Introduced by Svetlana Savranskaya
Communist Europe
- "Czechoslovakia-Cuba Relations and the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1959-1962: Evidence from the Prague Archives" - Introduced by James G. Hershberg
- "Hungary and the Cuban Missile Crisis: Selected Documents, 1961-63" - Introduced by Csaba B茅k茅s and Melinda Kalm谩r
- "Poland, Cuba, and the Missile Crisis, 1962: Ciphered Telegrams from the Foreign Ministry Archives in Warsaw" - Obtained and introduced by James G. Hershberg; translated by Margaret K. Gnoinska
Non-Communist Europe and Israel
- "Konrad Adenauer and the Cuban Missile Crisis: West German Documents" - Introduced by Christian F. Ostermann
- "Italy and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Sources introduced and translated by Leopoldo Nuti
- "Switzerland and the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Documents obtained, translated, and introduced by Stephanie Popp
- "Israeli Documents on the Cuban Missile Crisis" - Obtained, translated, and introduced by Guy Laron
Aftermaths, 1965-1968
- "A Mystery Wrapped in a Riddle and Kept in a Sphinx: New Evidence on Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin鈥檚 Trip to Cuba, June 1967" - Introduced by Philip Brenner
Authors

James G. Hershberg
Former Public Policy Scholar;
Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University
Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University

Christian F. Ostermann
Director, History and Public Policy Program; Cold War International History Project; North Korea Documentation Project; Nuclear Proliferation International History Project;
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