Details

Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Europe, Eastern [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). ; FCO28-004689. [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). ; FCO28-004689

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 dissent in Eastern Europe. The principal subject covered in the file is a conference on dissidence held in England in June 1981. Documents in the file include a speech given at the conference by Roland Smith of the Eastern European and Soviet Department of the Foreign Office -- and summaries and chronologies of dissident activities in several Eastern European countries. Other subjects discussed in the file include a major crackdown on dissent in Poland following the imposition of martial law -- the growth of a peace movement in East Germany -- efforts to frustrate the emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union -- a hunger strike by the dissident Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov -- the activities of the Charter 77 movement in Czechoslovakia -- and a campaign of arrests and intimidation directed against members of Helsinki monitoring groups in the Soviet Union.

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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