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PREM19/3177
Soviet Union (Policy towards the Soviet Union: calls on Prime Minister by Robert Conquest; Soviet and East European studies) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 165
Themes: Labour Party & socialism, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Asia), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), Defence (general), Defence (arms control), Science & technology

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87 Oct 9 Fr Major Soviet Union: Professor Chris Donnelly, Soviet Studies Research Centre letter to No.10 (Papers on Arms Control Negotiations and New Technologies in Defence) ["the first is a short abstract... for the Swiss MOD... The second is by an American with whom we work frequently"] [released Dec 2016]
87 Nov 12 Th Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Soviet Political Urgencies) ["a note on the political position... very volatile indeed"; Muscovite reactions to MT television interiews; US political scene] [released Dec 2016]
87 Nov 13 Fr Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell letter to Professor Chris Donnelly, Soviet Research Centre (Warsaw Pact Proposal to Discuss Military Doctrine with NATO) ["I very much agree that there is a risk of any dialogue... becoming an unprofitable exercise in propaganda... We are therefore taking very great care in considering our response"] [released Dec 2016]
88 Jan 25 Mo Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Soviet leadership) ["no Soviet government foreseeable in the near future seems likely to mount an immediate major threat to us"; Iran; US elections] [released Dec 2016]
88 Mar 9 We Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to Charles Powell (Gorbachev, Ligachev and perestroika) [analysis] [released Dec 2016]
88 Mar 20 Su Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Perestroika and Western Policy) [analysis] [released Dec 2016]
88 Apr 13 We Major Soviet Union: Howe minute to Kenneth Baker (Soviet and East European Studies) [FCO unwilling to fund, but Howe keen to progress issue: urges Baker to commission review that could form basis of Dept. of Education claim for additional funding] [released Dec 2016]
88 May 18 We Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Robert Conquest") [suggest MT meet with Conquest: "could be useful"] [released Dec 2016]
88 Jun 10 Fr Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Soviet leadership, perestroika, and foreign policy) [analysis] [released Dec 2016]
88 Jul 14 Th Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to Charles Powell (Pravda article on Soviet nuclear defence policy) [released Dec 2016]
88 Oct 6 Th Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Soviet foreign policy) [analysis of the roles of Ligachev & Yakovlev; Soviet perceptions of Western parliamentary system] [released Dec 2016]
88 Oct 17 Mo Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to Tessa Gaisman (Robert Conquest visit) [request for space in diary as "MT usually rather likes to see him"] [released Dec 2016]
88 Nov 2 We Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Perestroika and Western political/military strategies) [argues that provision of aid & arms reductions to foster perstroika will have opposite effect] [released Dec 2016]
89 Mar 17 Fr Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Changes in Soviet Conceptions of the World) [analysis; "we underestimated the profundity of the economic and other troubles"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Apr 5 We Major Soviet Union: Robert Conquest letter to MT (Soviet elections) [Gorbachev "in much the same condition as previous rulers wanting change - they have to break the resistance of their own apparatus"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Jul 4 Tu Major Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Robert Conquest") ["scale of the Soviet Union's economic difficulties... and of how Gorbachev may be at risk from the military"] [released Dec 2016]
89 Nov 4 Sa Major Soviet Union: Alan Clark letter to Charles Powell (invitation to participate in Royal United Services Institute discussion: 'Western Policy Towards the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe") [Charles Powell: "I think it is probably better NOT. I fear he will say something outrageous"] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 3 Tu Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (Robert Conquest) [meeting with MT for general discusson of Soviet matters] [released Dec 2016]
90 Apr 17 Tu Major Soviet Union: Hurd minute to MacGregor ("Soviet and Eastern European Studies") [disagreement over Deparmental funding source & responsibility for administration of funding] [released Dec 2016]
90 May 3 Th Major Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Soviet Union") [Robert Conquest report on his visit to Moscow] [released Dec 2016]