Details

Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• World politics [Browse]
• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Martial law [Browse]
• Poland [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). ; FCO28-004905. [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). ; FCO28-004905

Data source

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

Summary note

A file of documents concerning Poland's internal situation. Subjects discussed in the file include travel and communication restrictions introduced in Poland as a result of martial law -- the possibility of martial law in Poland being lifted -- the role of the Soviet Union in the implementation of martial law in Poland -- church-state relations in Poland -- relations between the Polish government and the Solidarity movement -- and the detention of strike organisers and Solidarity members in Poland. Other subjects discussed in the file include industrial action and protests in Poland -- coal productivity in Poland -- the level of Poland's international debt -- pricing controls in Poland -- internal ideological differences within the Polish United Workers' Party -- and the Western response to the introduction of martial law in Poland. Documents in the file include despatches produced by the British chargé d'affaires in Poland, Ramsay Melhuish, on martial law in Poland, and the rise and fall of Solidarity.

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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