Pavia Conference, 1-2 October 2007
A conference on "Britain and Europe in the 1980s: East & West" takes place at Pavia in early October. Below are links to some relevant documents on this site.
1979-90:documents
Around 100 documents on the site seem particularly relevant to the conference.
1980:carter attempts to prevent soviet intervention in poland
Scroll to the end of this page to find links to relevant documents.
1981-82: reagan & thatcher at odds over poland & siberian pipeline sanctions
The Reagan Library has released many documents on the 1981-82 Polish crisis and the consequent sanctions against the Siberian Gas pipeline, the most important of which are present on this site.
1984 december: gorbachev at chequers
The first meeting between MT and Gorbachev took place on Sunday 16 December 1984. Her comments on the meeting to Reagan at Camp David six days later are now available.
1985-93: the single market initiative & mt's growing rift with the european community
No documents from public archives are yet available, but key public statements can be read here.
1989-90: german reunification
The Bush Library has released phone and meeting transcripts between George Bush and Helmut Kohl in 1989-90.
Extracts from the published diary of Kohl's foreign policy adviser, Horst Teltschik, are published here for the first time in English.
1979-90 fco annual reports: poland, czechoslovakia & the g.d.r.
A Freedom of Information Act request by the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies resulted in the release of reviews for Poland, Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic, 1979-90.