Political: Northern (N): Soviet Union (38). Russia Committee: Minutes of Meetings

A file of memoranda and correspondence concerning British reactions to the developing internationalist presence of Communism. The documents contain the Russia Committee's reaction to a number of events across 1948, including the actions of the Cominform and the position of Stalin; the evolution of various foreign policy concerns in China, Czechoslovakia and Italy; the question of what terminology to use in British attacks on Communism; a reference to the anxieties of the Foreign Secretary regarding the surveillance of communist activity outside of the Soviet Union; and the development of anti-communist propaganda in Britain in response to global communist expansion. Other documents discuss potential British responses to the Soviet blockade of Berlin; the development of communism in China in the aftermath of the Chinese revolution; communist activities in Malaya; and whether potential economic sanctions upon the Soviet Union would be worthwhile.