Eastern European and Soviet Department: Soviet Attitude towards Peace Movements

A file of correspondence and reports concerning the attitude of the Soviet Union towards peace movements. The documents cover the activities of an unofficial Soviet peace movement, the "Group for Establishing Trust between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A."; the activities of the European peace group European Nuclear Disarmament; and the progress of peace marches that travelled through the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Other documents in the file cover Soviet interests in the South Pacific, including diplomatic representation and the activities of communist-front organisations; and an Australian movement, which has received a letter from the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev.