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

Summary

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".

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poland united states of america arms control espionage historiography international relations interviews nuclear weapons peace movements publications soviet union speeches american foreign policy communist party of the soviet union soviet foreign policy Leonid Brezhnev American-Soviet relations Andrei Gromyko Soviet Committee for State Security (K.G.B.) friendship societies diplomatic expulsions Mikhail Suslov Georgi Dimitrov Japanese press Boris Ponomarev Curtis Keeble Christopher Mallaby Nikolai Tikhonov Dmitrii Ustinov Giles Bullard Alexander Haig Falklands War (1982)