Details

Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Politics and government [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). ; FCO28-005151. [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). ; FCO28-005151

Data source

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

Summary note

A file containing documents relating to the "divided families group" of Soviet citizens who had been separated from their foreign spouses and were unable to emigrate. Aspects of this subject discussed include their situation's violation of the Helsinki Final Act -- the decision by four of the group to go on hunger strike -- and the case of Vladimir Volobuyev, who wished to marry his French fiancée. Other subjects discussed in the file include the British government's lack of a direct connection to the situation, as no British citizens were involved -- pressure on the hunger strikers from the Soviet Committee for State Security (K.G.B.) -- and the Soviet decision to allow three of the group of four to emigrate.

Notes

• File date: 1982.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 2015.
• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module IV.

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