Eastern European and Soviet Department: Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union

A file containing documents relating to Soviet foreign policy. Subjects covered in the file include the role of the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, in foreign-policy formulation; the view that the Soviet Union would take greater risks in confronting the United States; and the Soviet view on the peace movement in Western Europe. Other subjects discussed in the file include the history of expulsions of Soviet representatives from foreign countries; the Soviet view on the Falklands War; and a book on the history of Soviet foreign policy. Documents in the file include a report on Soviet foreign affairs organisations; an interview given by a leading Soviet politician, Nikolai Tikhonov, to a Japanese newspaper; a report on the foreign relations department of the Soviet communist party's Central Committee, with a list of key appointments; and a speech by the Soviet defence minister, Dmitrii Ustinov, entitled "To avert the threat of nuclear war".