Soviet Union: Great Britain-USSR Association

A file containing documents relating to the Great Britain-U.S.S.R. Association. Subjects covered in the file include the city of Sheffield's relationship with the Soviet Union; the activities of the British-Soviet Friendship Society, regarded as a communist-front organisation; and the case of a British academic, Michael Scammell, who had worked on Soviet dissident literature and who was refused a visa to visit the Soviet Union. Other subjects discussed in the file include the possibility of government funding to the association being withdrawn; a proposed visit to the United Kingdom by a group of Soviet documentary film makers; and plans by the director of the association, John Roberts, to take a leave of absence, and efforts to find someone to cover his work. Documents in the file include minutes of the executive committee meetings in March and June 1982; and the Anglo-Soviet scientific, educational, and cultural agreement for 1981–1983.