Details

Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Politics and government [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Foreign relations [Browse]

Related name

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

Series

• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FCO28: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series) ; FCO28-440. [More in this series]
• FCO28 : Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series) ; FCO28-440

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1967-1975: Module 3
• History Commons

Summary note

A file of correspondence and reports concerning relations between British and Soviet trade unions. The documents cover visits to Britain by Soviet trade union leaders including Boris Averyanov, the head of the International Department, and Petr Pimenov, the secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. Documents in the file include personality reports on the visiting Soviet delegations -- and briefs on the Soviet trade unions, covering their structure, governing bodies, history, and role in Soviet politics. The file also covers invitations issued to members of the British Trades Union Congress (T.U.C.) to visit the Soviet Union -- a T.U.C. invitation extended to the Soviet politician Aleksandr Shelepin -- and a Soviet article on British-Soviet trade union relations. Further correspondence covers a visit to the Soviet Union by representatives of the National Association of Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives -- and a visit of Soviet trade unionists to the Welsh Office.

Notes

• File date: 1967 to 1968.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1999.
• File was closed until January 1, 1999, under the Public Records Act 1958.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module III.

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