A file of correspondence and reports concerning political developments in the Soviet Union. The documents contain a report produced by the British embassy in Moscow discussing a "readjustment" in the relationship between the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Armed Forces in the year since the dismissal of Georgii Zhukov, the former Soviet Minister of Defence. The documents also cover an article in the Soviet press that included an "unusual" positive reference to Leon Trotsky; a lecture given in Moscow by a Soviet political theorist, commenting on recent developments in Soviet foreign policy; and how the Soviet All-Union Trade Union Council will not meet until after the upcoming congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has occurred. Other documents include a paper produced by the Foreign Office covering domestic and foreign policy developments within the Soviet Union between January and June 1958.
- Collection ID
- FO371
- Countries
- Afghanistan Albania Algeria Australia Austria Brazil Bulgaria Burma Cambodia Canada Chile China Colombia Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark East Germany Ecuador Egypt Ethiopia Finland France Ghana Greece Hungary India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Italy Japan Laos Lebanon Libya Luxembourg Malaya Mexico Mongolia Morocco Nepal Netherlands North Korea Norway Pakistan Panama Poland Portugal Romania Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Syria Thailand Tunisia Turkey United Arab Republic United Kingdom United States of America Uruguay Vatican Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic Of) Vietnam West Germany Yemen Yugoslavia
- Department Reference
- Code NS file 1015 (pp 63 to 73)
- Document Type
- Correspondence Reports
- File Reference
- FO 371/135233
- Identifier
- 10.1080/cwee.fo371.135233
- Pages
- 134
- Persons Discussed
- Anastas Mikoyan Andrei Gromyko Dwight D. Eisenhower Georgii Zhukov Josip Broz Tito Mikhail Pervukhin Nikita Khrushchev Nikolai Bulganin Władysław Gomułka
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Subject Countries
- Soviet Union
- Themes
- Domestic Politics International Relations