Details

Subject(s)

• Politics and government [Browse]
• Foreign exchange [Browse]
• Communism [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]
• Soviet Union [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-86751. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-86751

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1953-1960: Module 1
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of reports, correspondence and memoranda concerning the evolution of worldwide Communism. The documents discuss a wide-ranging survey of forty-six countries regarding questions including the international legality of Communism, the development of Communism within each country, and its subversive threat -- anti-Stalinist Communism and how Britain could potentially work with it to undermine the Soviet Union -- a speech by Dean Acheson, the United States Secretary of State -- a report on the World Federation of Trade Unions -- and Communism in Latin America. Other documents include a report on the trends found within Communist propaganda from early 1950 -- a draft summary of indications regarding Soviet foreign policy, featuring an in-depth study of Soviet relations with China -- notes to Clement Attlee, the British Prime Minister, on the development of anti-Stalinist Communism -- and a letter from the British ambassador in Caracas regarding the development of Communism in Venezuela.

Notes

• File date: 1950.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1980.

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