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List of Documents | p. x |
Series Preface | p. xiii |
Editor's Preface and Acknowledgments | p. xix |
List of Frequently Used Abbreviations | p. xxii |
Introduction: The Overlooked Crisis between Moscow and Havana | p. 1 |
Why Mikoyan? | p. 11 |
From a Mountain Village to the Kremlin | p. 11 |
The War and the Postwar Issues | p. 17 |
Avoiding Stalin's Traps | p. 21 |
De-Stalinization and Khrushchev's Reforms | p. 22 |
Mikoyan's Diplomacy | p. 25 |
Personality and Character | p. 30 |
The Journey across the Ocean: The Soviet Discovery of Cuba | p. 39 |
The Cuban Revolution and the Beginning of U.S.-Cuban Confrontation | p. 39 |
Contours of the New Cuba | p. 44 |
Was the Conflict with the United States Inevitable? | p. 45 |
The Early Reforms | p. 50 |
Castro Invites Mikoyan | p. 53 |
Ten Days That Changed the Face of the Hemisphere | p. 61 |
Havana, My Love | p. 61 |
Flying over the Island of Cuba | p. 65 |
The Die Is Cast | p. 69 |
Meeting with Hemingway | p. 75 |
Castro's and Mikoyan's Impressions of Our Visit | p. 79 |
Only Forward! | p. 83 |
The Leap Over the Ocean | p. 89 |
How It All Started | p. 89 |
So Why the Missiles? | p. 94 |
The Nuclear Balance | p. 99 |
Secrecy and Deception | p. 103 |
Persuading the Cubans | p. 107 |
What If the Agreement Was Made Public? | p. 110 |
The Secret Is Revealed | p. 113 |
The Outcome That Should Have Been Predicted | p. 113 |
Operation Anadyr: Military Success, Political Trap | p. 121 |
Origins of the Idea | p. 121 |
The Transportation of Troops to Cuba | p. 124 |
The Deployment and Cooperation with the Cuban Armed Forces | p. 127 |
The Submarine Mission | p. 136 |
Open Confrontation | p. 138 |
The Moment of Truth | p. 143 |
The Outcome | p. 145 |
When the World Was Hanging by a Thread | p. 147 |
The Potential Cost of a Misunderstanding | p. 147 |
Mikoyan Flies to Havana | p. 155 |
Deciding in the Kremlin | p. 164 |
Storm Clouds Over Havana | p. 173 |
Havana's Military Aesthetic | p. 173 |
War or Peace? | p. 176 |
The Path to Compromise | p. 182 |
An Unacceptable Risk | p. 186 |
The Tragic Start of the Dialogue in Havana | p. 191 |
Mikoyan Face to Face with Fidel | p. 195 |
The Kremlin's Gifts to the White House | p. 195 |
Mikoyan's First Conversations in Havana | p. 202 |
The Crisis within the Crisis | p. 207 |
The Il-28 Crisis | p. 213 |
Castro Fights for the Nuclear Warheads | p. 223 |
The Breaking Point | p. 227 |
Farewell to Havana | p. 231 |
Drawing Conclusions in the United States | p. 235 |
Meetings in New York | p. 235 |
The White House: Anastas Mikoyan and John Kennedy | p. 242 |
Meetings with Rusk, Udall, and Robert Kennedy | p. 257 |
Postscript, by Svetlana Savranskaya | p. 261 |
Documents | p. 269 |
Notes | p. 565 |
Index | p. 579 |
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