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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2541
Soviet Union (UK/Soviet relations; internal situation) (Part 9)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 241
Any docs withheld? 2
Themes: British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Defence (general), Defence (arms control), Trade, Science & technology

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Date Value Title
87 Nov 2 Mo Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (recent developments in the Soviet Union) [background briefing, on day of Gorbachev speech to mark 70th anniversary of October Revolution] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 3 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Visit of Academician Marchuk and Dr. Tolstykh") [meeting with MT] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 4 We Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Anglo-Soviet Lecture"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 9 Mo Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1613 to FCO (0830Z) ("Prime Minister's Oral Message to Gorbachev") [Gorbachev's response] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 9 Mo Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (request from 'The Times' to review Gorbachev's forthcoming book 'Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World') [case for agreeing to request] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 12 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Academician Marchuk and Dr. Tolstykh") [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 13 Fr Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1638 to FCO (1440Z) ("Fall of Eltsin") ['Pravda' report: "the most revealing insight into Soviet politics and the frankest and most damning indictment of a living Soviet leader... [since] Krushchev"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 17 Tu Major Soviet Union: Ambassador Cartledge despatch to Howe ("The 70th Anniversary of October 1917 and Perestroika: Does the Revolution Continue?") ["In this despatch I seek to draw lessons from probably the most testing fortnight of Mr Gorbachev's two and a half years as the Soviet leader"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 18 We Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1657 to FCO (1545Z) ("The Eltsin Affair: A Further Assessment") [Yeltsin's speech at the 21 October plenum "gave Gorbachev no choice but to throw him to the wolves"] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 19 Th Major Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Academician Aganbegyan") [economic reform in the Soviet Union] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 20 Fr Major Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev economic adviser Aganbegyan, Terence Burns) [economic reform in the Soviet Union] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 23 Mo Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Soviet Annual Lecture, 27 November") [draft message of support & proposed titles for the lecture series] [released Jul 2017]
87 Nov 24 Tu Major Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Soviet Protest About the Observer Article on Raisa Gorbacheva") [advice on follow-up action] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 10 Th Major Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1755 to FCO (0900Z) ("Prime Minister's Interview with Soviet Television, 9 December 1987") [report on Soviet coverage] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 11 Fr Major Soviet Union: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Professor Bialer") [MT agrees to proposed meeting] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 30 We Minor Soviet Union: No.10 note to Howe PS (Gorbachev's New Year Message to the Prime Minister) [cover note only] [released Jul 2017]
87 Dec 30 We Major Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 2850 to FCO (2215Z) ("US/Soviet Relations") [upcoming meetings] [released Jul 2017]