Register of the T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze writings

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Title: T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze writings
Date (inclusive): 1985-1998
Collection Number: 2000C91
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian
Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes (2.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diaries and notes relating to Soviet foreign relations, and to Georgian politics and foreign relations. Includes summaries of conversations between Eduard Shevardnadze and foreign leaders. Also available on microfilm (10 reels).
Creator: Stepanov-Mamaladze, T. G.
Creator: Shevardnadze, Ė. A. (Ėduard Amvrosievich), 1928-2014
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

Originals may not be used without permission of the Archivist. Microfilm access available. Materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], T. G. Stepanov-Mamaladze writings, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

Teimuraz G. Stepanov-Mamaladze was born in 1934 in Tbilisi (Georgia). After graduating from the Moscow State University Law School in 1958, he began his career as a journalist in Georgia. In 1978 he was appointed director of the Georgian Information Agency (Gruzinform). At that time he met Eduard Shevardnadze, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia. In 1985, when Shevardnadze was appointed minister of foreign affairs of the Soviet Union and left for Moscow, he invited Stepanov-Mamaladze to work as his aide and speechwriter, which he did through 1991.
In that capacity Stepanov-Mamaladze traveled extensively on various diplomatic missions, including the summit meeting between Gorbachev and Reagan in Reykjavik (1985), talks on the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty (INF) in 1987, and arrangements surrounding the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. He witnessed the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in Germany, the "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia, and the overthrow of Nicolae Ceauşescu in Romania in 1989. Stepanov-Mamaladze also accompanied Shevardnadze during negotiations with Saddam Hussein on the brink of the first Gulf War, when the Soviet Union tried to give the Iraqi leader the opportunity to leave Kuwait honorably in 1991, and was at Shevardnadze's side during meetings of the UN General Assembly from 1986 to 1989.
Stepanov-Mamaladze sat next to Shevardnadze when the latter met with Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George Shultz, James Baker, Ayatollah Khomeini (who had met with only two foreign diplomats - Eduard Shevardnadze and Yasser Arafat), and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, to name just a few.
After Shevardnadze retired from his position as minister of foreign affairs (1991) and was elected to the presidency of the Republic of Georgia in 1992, Stepanov-Mamaladze became his assistant.
In 1994 Stepanov-Mamaladze decided to resume his work as a journalist. He returned to Moscow, where he wrote for Komsomol'skaia pravda, Izvestiia, and Novye izvestiia newspapers. He became the head of the Novye Izvestiia Agency board of directors and a member of the Consultative Council of the Pro et Contra magazine under the auspices of the Carnegie Foundation.
He died in 1999 in Moscow and was buried, according to his wishes, in Tbilisi.

Scope and Content of Collection

The collection contains Teimuraz G. Stepanov-Mamaladzes's diaries and notes taken in his capacity as aide to Eduard Shevardnadze when the latter was the minister of foreign affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and during the first two years of his presidency of Georgia. Stepanov-Mamaladze took notes during all the negotiations, meetings, and conferences he attended, thus creating an extensive record of Eduard Shevardnadze's diplomatic endeavors.
In 1992 Shevardnadze visited the Hoover Institution and notes on that trip can also be found in Stepanov-Mamaladze's notebooks.
The notes in the Notebooks series are especially interesting because they present summaries of conversations between Eduard Shevardnadze and foreign leaders. The notes were taken on the spot, thus preserving lively conversations and jokes made by participants. Sometimes they include poems by Stepanov-Mamaladze, anecdotes, and quotations from books by famous authors.
The notes laid a foundation for the Diaries, which were written without haste, and present the same events in a more detailed and comprehensive way.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into two series: Notebooks, 1985-1998, and Diaries, 1985-1990.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1985-1991
Georgia (Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Georgia (Republic) -- Foreign relations -- 1991-

 

Notebooks 1985-1998

Scope and Contents note

Includes 121 notebooks of notes taken during meetings of Eduard Shevardnadze with foreign leaders, along with some personal notes. Arranged chronologically.
reel 1

circa 1985

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 1
reel 1

1985 October 2 - 26

Biographical / Historical

Box/Folder: 1 : 2
reel 1

1985 November

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 3
reel 1

1986 January 15 - 21

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 4
reel 1

1986 February 7 - March 15

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 5
reel 1

1986 March 17 - April 25, July 13

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 6
reel 1

1986 April 30, May 27, September 12, October 2

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 7
reel 1

1986 June 6 - July 2

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 8
reel 1

1986 September 18 - October 2

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 9
reel 1

1986 October 18 - December 16

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 10
reel 1

1986 November 3-5

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 11
reel 1

1986 December 19, 1987 January 3-4, February 2-5

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 12
reel 1

1987 January 5

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 13
reel 1

1987 January 5 - February 2

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 14
reel 1

1987 February 7 - March 3

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 15
reel 1

1987 March 2-7

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 16
reel 1

1987 March 10-13

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 17
reel 2

1987 March 16 - April 6

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 18
reel 2

1987 April 28 - May 11

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 19
reel 2

1987 May 11-20

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 20
reel 2

1987 May 20 - June 9

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 21
reel 2

1987 June 13-18

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 22
reel 2

1987 June 18-21

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 23
reel 2

1987 July 1 - August 4

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 24
reel 2

1987 July 13 - 16

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 25
reel 2

1987 August 5 - September 10

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 26
reel 2

1987 September 13-27

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 27
reel 2

1987 September 30

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 28
reel 2

1987 October 1-16

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 29
reel 2

1987 October 16-26

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 1 : 30
reel 2

1987 October 30 - November 24

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 1
reel 2

1987 November 27 - December 31

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 2
reel 3

1988 January 2-17

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 3
reel 3

1988 January 19 - March 9

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 4
reel 3

1988 March 11 - April 3

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 5
reel 3

1988 March 28 - April 13

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 6
reel 3

1988 April 14 - May 25

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 7
reel 3

1988 June 1 - July 22

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 8
reel 3

1988 July 25 - August 6

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 9
reel 3

1988 August 8 - September 25

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 10
reel 3

1988 October 3-7

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 11
reel 3

1988 October 10 - November 14

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 12
reel 3

1988 November 15 - December 3

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 13
reel 4

1988 December 3-18

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 14
reel 4

1988 December 20-23, 1989 January 3-7

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 15
reel 4

1989 January 7 - 18

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 16
reel 4

1989 January 19 - February 3

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 17
reel 4

1989 February 3-17

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 18
reel 4

1989 February 17-18

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 19
reel 4

1989 February 20-22

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 20
reel 4

1989 February 24 - March 7

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 21
reel 4

1989 April 9-13

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 22
reel 4

1989 April 13-19

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 23
reel 4

1989 May 12-17

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 24
reel 4

1989 May 18 - June 13

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 25
reel 4

1989 June 14 - July 18

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 26
reel 4

1989 July 28 - August

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 27
reel 4

1989 August 5 - September 16

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 28
reel 4

1989 September 21 - October 2, November 2

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 29
reel 4

1989 October 4 - November 28

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 2 : 30
reel 4

1989 November 29 - December 8

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 1
reel 5

1989 December 17-28

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 2
reel 5

1990 January 3-11

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 3
reel 5

1990 January 12 - February 4

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 4
reel 5

1990 February 5 - 13

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 5
reel 5

1990 February 13 - March 17

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 6
reel 5

1990 March 18-21

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 7
reel 5

1990 March 22-26

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 8
reel 5

1990 March 28

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 9
reel 5

1990 April 5

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 10
reel 5

1990 April 6

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 11
reel 5

1990 April 10 - May 5

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 12
reel 5

1990 May 5-23

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 13
reel 5

1990 May 8 - June 11

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 14
reel 5

1990 July 11-14

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 15
reel 5

1990 July 16-30

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 16
reel 5

1990 October 18 - November 17

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 17
reel 5

1990 November 19-28

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 18
reel 5

1990 November 29 - December 14

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 19
reel 6

1990 December 14-30, 1991 January 2

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 20
reel 6

1991 January 4 - February 22

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 21
reel 6

1991 February 22 - March 18

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 22
reel 6

1991 March 18 - April 11

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 23
reel 6

1991 April 12 - May 6

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 24
reel 6

1991 May 6-17

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 25
reel 6

1991 May 18-30

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 26
reel 6

1991 June 8 - August 15

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 27
reel 6

1991 August 18 - September 6

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 28
reel 6

1991 September 10-23

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 29
reel 6

1991 September 23 - November 25

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 30
reel 6

1991 November 25 - December 11

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 31
reel 6

1991 December 13-31, 1992 January 2-30

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 32
reel 7

1992 February 2-20

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 33
reel 7

1992 February 21 - March 18

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 3 : 34
reel 7

1992 March 20 - April 21

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 1
reel 7

1992 April 23 - May 25

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 2
reel 7

1992 May 25 - June 4

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 3
reel 7

1992 June 5-14

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 4
reel 7

1992 June 15 - July 5

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 5
reel 7

1992 July 16-28

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 6
reel 7

1992 July 29 - August 29

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 7
reel 7

1992 August 31 - September 22

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 8
reel 7

1992 September 25 - November 3

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 9
reel 7

1992 November 4-17

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 10
reel 7

1992 November 24-31, 1993 January 6-30

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 11
reel 7

1993 February 11 - March 12

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4:12
reel 7

1993 March 12 - May 6

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4:13
reel 7

1993 May 6 - June 4

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4:14
reel 8

1993 June 7 - July 16

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder: 4 : 15
reel 8

1993 July 16 - August 6

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 16
reel 8

1993 August 9 - September 16

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 17
reel 8

1993 September 17 - October 3

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 18
reel 8

1993 October 4 - November 21

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 19
reel 8

1993 November 21 - December 29, 1994 January 5 - February 8

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 20
reel 8

1994 February 8 - April 16

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 21
reel 8

1994 April 18 - June 20

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 22
reel 8

1994 September 16 - October 2

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 23
reel 8

1994 December 3-31, 1995 January 4 - February 18

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 24
reel 8

1995 March 8 - April 19

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 25
reel 8

1997 January 26 - February 6

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 26
reel 8

1998 March 11 - May 13

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 4 : 27
 

Diaries 1985-1990

Scope and Contents note

Includes 9 books based on the notebooks. Arranged chronologically.
reel 9

1985 August 30 - December 31

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 5 : 1
reel 9

1986 January 1 - September 23

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 5 : 2
reel 9

1986 September 24 - December 31, 1987 January 1 - June 21

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 5 : 3
reel 9

1987 July 23 - December 27, 1988 January 1 - 19

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 5 : 4
reel 9

1988 January 19 - August 7

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 5 : 5
reel 10

1988 August 9 - December 31, 1989 January 3 - April 9

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 5 : 6
reel 10

1989 April 9 - August 5

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 5 : 7
reel 10

1989 August 13 - December 31, 1990 January 2 - April 6

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 5 : 8
reel 10

1990 April 6 - October 19

Scope and Contents

Box/Folder 5 : 9