Item COLD WAR 28/28 - Transcript of interview with diplomat Oleg Troyanovski, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Oleg Troyanovski, relating to the impact in the USSR of the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953; the Berlin Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961; the emergence of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev as the Soviet leader after Stalin's death, 1953; the summit conference between US President Dwight David Eisenhower and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Geneva, Switzerland, Jul 1955; the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany and incorporation into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1954; Soviet development of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM), 1953-1957; the official visit to the USA by Khrushchev, 1959; US reconnaissance flights over the USSR, 1956-1960; the shooting down, near Sverdlovsk, USSR, of a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Lockheed U2 high altitude photographic reconnaissance aircraft, and the capture of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, May 1960; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and Eisenhower, Paris, France, May 1960; the launch of the Sputnik I Earth orbiting satellite, Oct 1957; the launch of the first man to travel in space, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, 12 Apr 1961; the attempted d'etat against Khrushchev's leadership from within the Soviet Communist Party, 1957; the US nuclear doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), [1962-1972]; the US Presidential election, Nov 1960; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962; the denunciation by Khrushchev of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the creation of the Warsaw Pact, the Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, Poland, 1955; the withdrawal of British, American, French and Soviet occupation forces from Austria, 1955; the first Atoms for Peace Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1955; the Soviet intervention in Hungary, Nov 1956; the Soviet opinion of the first march from London to the British nuclear research site at Aldermaston, Berkshire, and the foundation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 1958; the Soviet view of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, [1958-1960]. 37pp