Details

Subject(s)

• Politics and government [Browse]
• Commercial policy [Browse]
• Law and justice [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) ; FO371-152018. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-152018

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 reports concerning legal matters in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include a critical Izvestiya report on the establishment of a "Comrades' Court" at a Latvian school, where cases involved stolen hair ribbons, tennis balls, and sandwiches. Further correspondence discusses a review of a United Nations seminar held in Vienna on the "protection of the rights of the individual in criminal procedure". The review was published in the periodical Socialist Legality, and is said to offer an unusually objective account of proceedings.

Notes

• File date: 1960.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1990.

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