Details

Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Europe, Eastern [Browse]
• Poland [Browse]
• Soviet Union [Browse]

Related name

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

Series

• Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series). ; FCO28-004341. [More in this 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). ; FCO28-004341

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1976-1982: Module 4
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing documents concerning the possibility of Soviet intervention in Poland. Subjects covered in the file include Soviet options for military intervention in Poland and their implications for the Warsaw Pact -- a growing Soviet propaganda offensive against the Solidarity movement and the Polish United Workers' Party (P.Z.P.R.) -- the selection of the Polish prime minister, Wojciech Jaruzelski, to be the leader of the P.Z.P.R. -- and the election of Poland as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Other subjects discussed in the file include possible sanctions against the Soviet Union in the event of an invasion -- the expulsion of a Polish journalist from the Soviet Union for promoting Solidarity -- the "disastrous" economic situation in Poland, with many workers on strike -- the breakdown of talks between the Polish government, Solidarity, and the Roman Catholic Church -- and Jaruzelski's declaration of martial law.

Notes

• File date: 1981.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2014.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module IV.

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