Publication

Personal contacts often play a key role in international relations, and disclosing the contents of the Warsaw Pact’s off-the-record consultations contributes to the systematic documentation of the alliance’s history. This dossier offers an analytical introduction to the high-level talks between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and his Warsaw Pact counterparts, held in the Crimea in the 1970s. Among them are the most characteristic and fully documented Crimean meeting held in July 1973, and the last bilateral meeting between Brezhnev and Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov on 7 August 1981, which focused mainly on development regarding the Polish crisis.