Item COLD WAR 27/168 - Transcript of interview with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, 1997

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Condoleezza Rice, Soviet Affairs Specialist, US National Security Council, 1989-[1993], relating to the impact in the USA of the speech made by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, to the United Nations Organisation, on allowing East European nations to evolve without Soviet interference, Dec 1988; the influence of Gorbachev's reformist policies on the administration of US President George (Herbert Walker) Bush, 1989; the meeting between Eduard Amvrosievich Shevardnadze, Soviet Foreign Minister, and James Addison Baker III, US Secretary of State, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, Sep 1989; the visit of US President Bush to Poland and Hungary, Jul 1989; the US policy of co-operation with the USSR over Eastern Europe, 1989; the summit meeting between Bush and Gorbachev, Malta, 1-3 Dec 1989; the revolution in Romania, Dec 1989; opposition to Gorbachev within the USSR, 1990; the reunification of Germany, 31 Aug 1990; fears in the USA and USSR concerning German reunification, 1990; Soviet opposition to a reunified Germany remaining a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1990; the summit meeting between Bush and Gorbachev, Washington DC and Camp David, Maryland, USA, 30 May-2 Jun 1990; the announcement by Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, that a reunified Germany would be a member of NATO, 16 Jul 1990; Rice's belief that Gorbachev and Kohl's announcement signified the end of the Cold War, 1990; the dissolution of the USSR, 1990-1991; US support for the independence of the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, 1990-1991; Rice's opinion of Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation, Aug 1991-[1997], and his support for the independence of the former Soviet republics, 1990-1991; the US reaction to 'Bloody Sunday', the death of fourteen Lithuanians during the storming of public buildings by Soviet troops, Vilnius, Lithuania, 13 Jan 1991; the influence of the Gulf war on the break up of the USSR, 1991; the 'August coup', USSR, 19-22 Aug 1991; the resignation of Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, and the dissolution of the Party, 24 and 29 Aug 1991; Yeltsin's creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), 8 Dec 1991; Rice's opinion on the legacy of the Cold War, and how close the world was to a nuclear confrontation, 1945-1990; the impact of the end of the Cold War on the US military industrial complex, 1990-1991; the international responsibilities of the USA since the end of the Cold War, 1990-1997. 42pp