Item COLD WAR 28/15 - Transcript of interview with Colonel Dimitri Sukhanov, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Soviet Col Dimitri Nikolaevich Sukhanov, Assistant to Georgiy Maksimilyanovich Malenkov, [1948], relating to the Soviet reaction to the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1947-1948; the Soviet ideological objections to the Marshall Plan, 1948; the creation by the USSR of Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) and the Committee for Mutual Economic Assistance to counter the US Marshall Plan, 1947; the communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia, Feb 1948; the deterioration in the relationship between Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin and Josip 'Broz' Tito, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, 1948; the expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform, Jun 1948; the acceptance by Yugoslavia of US economic aid, 1949; the role of NKVD (Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) advisers in the trial of Rudolf Slánský, the Jewish Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia, Nov 1952; the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, 1950-1953; the deteriorating health of Stalin, 1951-1953; the character of Stalin, 1952-1953; the death of Stalin, 5 Mar 1953; the changes in Soviet foreign policy following Stalin's death, 1953-1954; the improvement in Soviet/US relations, 1953-1956; the Soviet economy and the early development of the space industry, 1953-1957; Soviet objections towards German reunification, 1954; the arrest of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, Soviet Commissar for Internal Affairs, on charges of conspiracy, Jul 1953.