The Global Cuban Missile Crisis at 50

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Issue 17/18 Fall 2012

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Featuring new evidence on:

New Evidence From Behind the Iron, Bamboo, and Sugarcane Curtains, and Beyond

* When Che Met Mao

* Behind Closed Kremlin Doors

* The View From Havana

* Khrushchev Unplugged

* The Soviet-Cuban Missile Crisis

* Mikoyans Mission Impossible

* Cuba and the Sino-Soviet Split

* Would-Be Mediators? Brazilian, Polish, Dutch...

* Raul Castro in Eastern Europe, Kosygin in Havana

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The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by govern-ments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former Communist bloc with the historiography of the Cold War which has been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant on Western archival sources. It also seeks to transcend barriers of language, geography, and regional specialization to create new links among scholars interested in Cold War history.

Among the activities undertaken by the Project to promote this aim are a periodic Bulletin and other publications to disseminate new findings, views, and activities per-taining to Cold War history; a fellowship program for young historians from the former Communist bloc countries to conduct archival research and study Cold War history in the United States; and international scholarly meetings, conferences, and seminars.

CWIHP receives funding from the Korea Foundation (Seoul), the MacArthur Foundation (Chicago), the Karl and Martha Maunter Fund, the Carnegie Corporation (New York), the Leon Levy Foundation (New York), the Blavatnik Family Foundation (New York), and other donors.

Donations to the project are very welcome and, like all contributions to the Wilson Center, are tax-deductible.

CWIHP Advisory Committee

William C. Taubman (Amherst College), ChairMichael BeschlossJames H. Billington (Library of Congress)Warren Cohen (University of Maryland Baltimore County)John Lewis Gaddis (Yale University)James G. Hershberg (George Washington University)Samuel F. Wells, Jr. (Woodrow Wilson Center)Sharon Wolchik (George Washington University)

CWIHP Senior Scholars

Hope M. Harrison (The George Washington University)Chen Jian (Cornell University)A. Ross Johnson Bernd Schaefer David Wolff (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido)Vladislav Zubok (Temple University)

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Christian F. Ostermann is the director of the Woodrow Wilson Centers History and Public Policy Program and has headed CWIHP since 1997/98.

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The Global Cuban Missile CrisisSurfing the Third Wave of Missile Crisis Scholarship

By James G. Hershberg

8Introduction

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Back to the Archives: The Cuban Missile Crisis At 50

By Martin J. Sherwin

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