SOVIET DELIBERATIONS DURING THE POLISH CRISIS, 1980-1981
Edited, Translated, Annotated, and Introduced by Mark Kramer

Special Working Paper No. 1, April 1999 (181 pp)

CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION (7-35)

22 annotated documents (35-174)

No. 1: CPSU Politburo’s Assessment of Recent Developments in Poland, 3 September 1980 (35)
No. 2: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 29 October 1980 (44)
No. 3: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 31 October 1980 (55)
No. 4: Letter from Leonid Brezhnev to Erich Honecker, 4 November 1980 (60)
5: Directive from the CPSU Secretariat, 14 November 1980, Reducing Tourist Exchanges with Poland (62)
No. 6: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 11 December 1980 (69)
No. 7: Directive from the CPSU Secretariat, 14 January 1981, with Supporting Cables (73)
No. 8: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 22 January 1981 (79)
No. 9: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 12 March 1981 (86)
No. 10: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 26 March 1981 89)
No. 11: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 2 April 1981 (92)
No. 12: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 9 April 1981 (103)
No. 13: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 16 April 1981 (112)
No. 14: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 30 April 1981 115)
No. 15: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 18 June 1981 (119)
16: Notes from Brezhnev’s Meeting with Stanislaw Kania and Wojciech Jaruzelski, 22 August 1981 (125)
No. 17: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 10 September 1981 (137)
No. 18: Transcript of Brezhnev’s Phone Conversation with Kania, 15 September 1981 (141)
No. 19: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 17 September 1981 146)
No. 20: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 29 October 1981 (148)
No. 21: Transcript of the CPSU Politburo Session, 10 December 1981 (157)
No. 22: KGB Annual Report for 1981.Excerpts (171)

IDENTIFICATION LIST (175)