Details

Subject(s)

• Soviet foreign policy and international relations [Browse]
• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Bulgaria—Politics and government [Browse]
• Bulgaria—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) ; FCO28-2700. [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) ; FCO28-2700

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 political relations between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. The documents cover the reciprocal visits of Bulgarian and Soviet political and military representatives -- visits to Moscow by Stanko Todorov, the Bulgarian Chairman of the Council of Ministers, and Petar Mladenov, the Bulgarian foreign minister -- and details of agreements concluded between the two countries on shipping, the coordination of economic plans, cultural cooperation, and legal aid. Other documents in the file cover the opening of the Soviet House of Science and Culture in Sofia -- and a rumour that Bulgaria is to become an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union. The file also includes a British despatch examining Bulgarian-Soviet relations, covering Bulgaria's adherence to Soviet foreign policy, Soviet control over the Bulgarian military, Bulgaria's economic dependence on the Soviet Union, and the administrative, social, and cultural bonds between the two countries.

Notes

• File date: 1975.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2005.
• File was closed until December 29, 2005, under the Public Records Act 1958.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module III.

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