Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

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

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-129126. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-129126

Data source

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

Summary note

A file of correspondence and memoranda concerning cultural relations between Britain and the Soviet Union. The documents discuss a move by the British government to re-establish cultural links with the Soviet Union, after they were suspended in the aftermath of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution -- the resumption of the activities of the British Council's Soviet Relations Committee, which was similarly suspended -- and a visit to Britain by Nikolai Mikhailov, the Soviet Minister of Culture. Other documents cover the jamming of B.B.C. broadcasts in the Soviet Union -- proposed theatrical and educational exchanges between Britain and the Soviet Union -- and a request from the Soviet government for the Soviet Relations Committee to include "large-scale cultural manifestations" in its programme of future activities. The documents also comment on an article published in Kommunist by Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, calling for a "closer link of literature and art with the life of the people".

Notes

• File date: 1957.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1987.

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