Eastern European and Soviet Department : Dissidents in Eastern Europe : reports on dissident activities : Conference on Dissidence in Eastern Europe, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, June 1982 (FCO28-004689).

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, England : Taylor and Francis, 2020.
  • London : Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1982.
Description
1 online resource : colour text file, PDF

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Subject(s)
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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