Northern (N): Soviet Union (NS). Crime in the Soviet Union; Britons and Americans in Soviet Prison Camps

A file of correspondence concerning the British perspective on crime in the Soviet Union. The documents discuss the arrests of several citizens in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic for alleged theft, and the "political overtones" of these arrests; the continued imprisonment of a number of American citizens in Soviet prison camps; two court cases in the Soviet Union, in which, though the defendants in one case were convicted of robbery and those in the second with murder, very similar sentences were handed down; and how crime is generally reported in the Soviet press.