Eastern European and Soviet Department: Monthly Foreign and Commonwealth Office Reports on Communist Policy and Tactics

A file containing documents relating to the monthly report Communist policy and tactics, produced by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and distributed to government departments and embassies. Documents in the file include issues of the report for January–August 1974, covering subjects including Soviet policy towards the West, the internal situation in China, church-state relations in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, Warsaw Pact political consultations, leadership changes in Eastern Europe, Soviet economic reforms, the twenty-eighth session of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the tenth congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, President Richard Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union, the lessons of the military coup in Chile, and the Sino-Soviet border dispute. Each month's issue includes a chronology of key events. Also included in the file is correspondence concerning the content and distribution of the report.