The CAESAR, POLO, and ESAU Papers CAESAR Documents Document Title 1. The Doctors Plot 2. Death of Stalin 3. Germany 4. The Reversal of the Doctors Plot and Its Immediate Aftermath 5. Melinkov s Removal in the Ukraine 6. The Zhdanov-Malenkov Relationship 7. The Balance of Power 8. Indecision and Stress 9. Politics and the Soviet Army: Developments Since October 1952 Relating to the Political Status of the Soviet Armed Forces 10. Purge of L.P. Beria 1 1. Summarization of Reports Preceding Beria Purge 12. Resignation of Malenkov 13. Recent Developments in Political Status of Soviet Armed Forces 14. Soviet Views on Capitalism 15. The Suez Crisis - A Test for the USSR s Middle Eastern Policy 16. Factionalism in the Hungarian Workers (Communist) Party 17. Soviet Economic Policy: December 1956 - May 1957 18. Differences in Temperament Among Soviet Leaders as Shown by Their Approach to Policy Issues 1945-1957 19. From the July Plenum (1955) to the 20th Party Congress - Antecedents and Aftermath of Malenkov s Resignation From the Premiership Date 15-Jul-53 16-Jul-53 16-Jul-53 17-Jul-53 17-Jul-53 29-Jul-53 5-Aug-53 21 -Aug-53 12-Mar-54 17-Apr-54 17-Aug-54 12-Sep-55 20-Sep-55 30-Jan-56 3-Jan-57 28-Jan-57 8-Jul-57 30-Oct-57 12-Mar-58
20. From the July Plenum (1955) to the 20th Party Congress - Antecedents and Aftermath of Malenkov s Resignation From the Premiership 2 1. The Tie That Binds - Soviet Intrabloc Relations Feb 1956 to Dec 1957 22. The Failure of the Soviet-Yugoslav Rapprochement 23. Party-Military Relations in the USSR and the Fall of Marshal Zhukov 24. The Soviet Writer and Soviet Cultural Policy 25. The Soviet History of World War I1 26. Khrushchev on Nuclear Strategy 27. The Succession to Khrushchev 28. Soviet Policy Toward the Underdeveloped Countries 29. Soviet Military Thought on Future War 30. Khrushchev and the Anti-Party Group 3 1. Soviet Strategic Doctrine for the Start of War 32. Soviet Military Strategy and the Chinese Problem 33. Khrushchev s Role in the Current Controversy Over Soviet Defense Policy 34. Unorthodox Ideas in the USSR 35. Trends in Soviet Thought on Limited Warfare 36. The Soviet Missile Base Venture in Cuba 37. The Soviet Strategic Interest in Limited Disarmament 38. The Higher Military Council of the USSR 39. The Military and the Succession Problem in the USSR 40. Warsaw Pact Military Strategy: A Compromise in Soviet Strategic Thinking 4 1. The New Soviet Constitution and the Party-State Issue In CPSU Politics, 1956-1966 42. Strains in Soviet - East German Relations: 1962-1967 43. Policy and Politics in CPSU Politburo: October 1964 to September 1967 44. The Stalin Issue and the Soviet Leadership Struggle 45. Annex: The Stalin Issue and the Soviet Leadership Struggle 19-Jun-58 29-Jul-58 3-NOV-58 8-Jun-59 15-Sep-59 28-0ct-59 19-Jan-60 4-Mar-60 28-Apr-61 3-Apr-62 27-Apr-62 3-Jul-62 26-Apr-63 17-Jun-63 27-Jun-63 16-Dec-63 17-Feb-64 6-Mar-64 20-Jul-64 5-NOV-64 7-Jun-65 21 -J~l-66 24-Feb-67 3 1 -Aug-67 5-Jul-68 17-Jul-68
UNCLAS S IFIED 46. Politics in the Soviet Politburo and the Czech Crisis 47. Institute for the USA: The Kremlin s New Approach to America Watching 48. Leonid Brezhnev: The Man and His Power 49. Brezhnev s Struggle for Dominance: Annex to Leonid Brezhnev: The Man and His Power 50. Soviet Policy and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War 5 1. Andrey Kirilenko and the Soviet Political Succession 52. Portrait of a Neo-Stalinist: Annex to CAESAR XXXIX Andrey Kirilenko and the Soviet Political Succession 53. The Politburo and Soviet Decision-Making 28-Oct-68 7-0ct-69 5-Dec-69 12-Dec-69 16-Mar-70 15-MN-7 1 Jun-7 1 1 -Apr-72 POLO Documents Document Title 1. Mao Tse-Tung and Historical Materialism 2. Mao Tse-Tung and Historical Materialism 11. The State Form 3. Mao Tse-Tung and Historical Materialism IV..The Transition to Socialism 4. Mao Tse-Tung and Historical Materialism 111. Contradictions in a Socialist Society 5. The Chinese Communist Leadership, 1958-1961 6. The Decline of Mao Tse-Tung 7. The Sino-Indian Border Dispute Section 1 : 1950-59 8. The Sino-Indian Border Dispute Section 2: 1959-61 9. The Sino-Indian Border Dispute Section 3: 1961-62 10. Communist China s Domestic Crisis: The Road to 1964 11. The Sino-Vietnamese Effort to Limit American Actions in the Vietnam War 12. Political Problems in Communist China 13. Mao s Cultural Revolution : Its Leadership, Its Strategy, Its Instruments, and Its Casualties 14. Mao s Cultural Revolution : Origin and Development 15. The P.L.A. and the Cultural Revolution Date 10-Apr-61 29-Jun-61 9-Oct-6 1 20-Oct-6 1 28-NOV-61 9-Apr-62 2-Mar-63 19-Aug-63 5-May-64 3 1 -J~l-64 9-Jun-65 1 9-JuI-65 18-Feb-67 6-Oct-67 28-Oct-67
16. Ten Years of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy Section I: Policy Toward the US and the Diplomatic Isolation of Taipei 17. Ten Years of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy South and Southeast Asia 18. Ten Years of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy Section 11: South and Southeast Asia 19. Mao s Cultural Revolution in 1967: The Struggle to Seize Power 20. Red Guard and Revolutionary Rebel Organizations in Communist China 2 1. Mao s Red Guard Diplomacy: 1967 22. Mao s Cultural Revolution 111. The Purge of the P.L.A. and the Stardom of Madame Mao 23. Factionalism in the Central Committee: Mao s Opposition Since 1949 24. The Role of the Red Guards and Revolutionary Rebels in Mao s Cultural Revolution 25. The Role of the Red Guards and Revolutionary Rebels in Mao s Cultural Revolution 26. The Cultural Revolution and Education in Communist China 27. The Cultural Revolution and the Ninth Party Congress 28. Communist China: The Political Security Apparatus 11. Destruction and Reconstruction, 1965-1969 29. Lin Pia0 and the Great Helmsman 30. The Cultural Revolution and the New Political System in China 3 1. Lin Pia0 and the Structure of Power 32. The Failure of Maoist Ideology in Foreign Policy 33. The International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party 34. Peking-Taipei Contacts: The Question of a Possible Chinese Solution 35. Research Aid - Missing Chinese Military Leaders 36. Policy Issues in the Purge of Lin Piao 4-Apr-68 9-Apr-68 24-May-68 28-May-68 21 -Jun-68 Jun-68 19-Sep-68 Nov-68 Dec-68 23-May-69 1-0ct-69 28-NOV-69 21 -Jan-70 30-Oct-70 Dec-70 n0v-7 1 Dec-7 1 Dec-7 1 Aug-72 NOV-72
37. Peking s Support of Insurgencies in Southeast Asia 38. China s Regional and Provincial Leaders: The Purge of the Military, the Rise of Old Party Cadres Apr-73 Jul-73 ESAU Documents Document Title 1. Origins of the Chinese Commune Program 2. The Commune: Conception and Experimentation, Spring 1958 3. The Soviet Attitude Toward Communes 4. Soviet Positions on the Transition to Communism - Prior to the Chinese Commune Program 5. The Commune: Revelation and Initial Organization, Summer 1958 6. Indications of Soviet Awareness of Chinese Plans for the Communes, Spring-Summer 1958 7. The Chinese Communist Impact on East Germany 8. The Commune, The Great Leap Forward, and Sino-Soviet Relations (August-December 1958) 9. Mao Tse-Tung on Strategy, 1926-1957 (The Background of the Sino-Soviet Dispute of 1957-1960) 10. The Sino-Soviet Dispute on World Communist Strategy (Autumn 1957-Autumn 1959) 1 1. The Sino-Soviet Dispute on World Communist Strategy (Its Development from Autumn 1959 to Summer 1960) 12. The Sino-Soviet Dispute (June 1960 to November 1960) 13. The Sino-Soviet Dispute (The 6 December Declaration, and Soviet and Chinese Presentations of It) 14. Sino-Soviet Competition in North Korea 15. The Indian Communist Party and Sino-Soviet Dispute 16. The New Stage of the Sino-Soviet Dispute (October 1961-January 1962) 17. North Vietnam and Sino-Soviet Relations 18. Summary - Implications of the Sino-Soviet Dispute for US Policy Date 17-Jul-59 12-Jun-59 28-Aug-59 4-Sep-59 16-Oct-59 15-Apr-60 15-Jun-60 8-Aug-60 23-Sep-60 23-Jan-61 20-Feb-61 17-Mar-61 5-Apr-61 7-Feb-62 26-Feb-62 4-Mar-62 29-Mar-62
19. Soviet-Albanian Relations, 1940-1960 22-Jun-62 20. The State of Sino-Soviet Relations at the New Year 7-Jan-63 2 1. The North Vietnamese Party and the New Situation 10-Jul-63 in South Vietnam 22. The Sino-Soviet Struggle in Cuba and the Latin 1 -Nov-63 American Communist Movement 23. The Japanese Communist Party 1955-1963 20-Mar-64 24. The Sino-Soviet Conflict in the Fronts - 12-Jun-64 September 1962-December 1963 25. Prince Sihanouk and the New Order in Southeast Asia 26. The Showdown on Soviet Authority in the Movement 27. The 1965 Sino-Soviet-Vietnamese Controversy Over Soviet Military Aid to North Vietnam 28. Zanzibar: The Hundred Days Revolution 29. The Positions of Hanoi, Peking, and Moscow on the Issue of Vietnam Negotiations: 1962 to 1966 30. Asian Communist Employment of Negotiations as a Political Tactic 3 1. The Disintegration of Japanese Communist Relations with Peking 32. The Sino-Soviet Dispute Within the Communist Movement in Latin America 33. The Sino-Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev s Fall (Part 1) 34. The Sino-Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev s Fall (Part 2) 35. The Sino-Soviet Struggle in the World Communist Movement Since Khrushchev s Fall (Part 3) 36. The Attitudes of North Vietnamese Leaders Toward Fighting and Negotiating 37. The Sino-Soviet Dispute on Aid to North Vietnam (1965-1968) 38. Annex: The Sino-Soviet Dispute on Aid to North Vietnam ( 1965-1968) 39. Kim 11-Sung s New Military Adventurism 40. Indonesia-1965, The Coup that Backfired 8-Feb-65 20-Dec-65 21 -Feb-66 31-0ct-66 Nov-66 28-Dec-66 15-Jun-67 Sep-67 Sep-67 Sep-67 25-Mar-68 30-Sep-68 25-NOV-68 26-NOV-68 Dec-68
4 1. The Struggle in the Polish Leadership and the Revolt of the Apparat 42. The Committed Church and Change in Latin America 43. Czechoslovakia: The Problem of Soviet Control 44. The Evolution of Soviet Policy in Sino-Soviet Border Dispute 45. The Prussian Heresy: Ulbricht s Evolving System 46. Yugoslavia: The Outworn Structure 47. Fedayeen - Men of Sacrifice 48. The Growth of the Soviet Commitment in the Middle East 49. The Fedayeen (Annex to ESAU XLVII: Fedayeen - Men of Sacrifice ) 50. Soviet Thinking about the Danger of Sino-U.S. Rapprochement 5 1. The Polish Question: East Germany 52. Peking and the Burmese Communists: The Perils and Profits of Insurgency 53. Communism and Cambodia 54. Communism and Cambodia 55. Finlandization In Action: Helsinki s Experience With Moscow 56. Soviet Expectations of a European Security Conference 5-Sep-69 10-Sep-69 16-Jan-70 28-Apr-70 29-Jun-70 20-NOV-70 Dec-70 Jan-7 1 Jan-7 1 Feb-7 1 ju1-7 1 ju1-7 1 Feb-72 May-72 Aug-72 Oct-72