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Soviet Union

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 669 Collections and/or Records:

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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, Moran - Nixon., Jul 1953 - Dec 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/530A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: various doctors on WSC's health, hearing aids and on gifts from WSC including Charles [1st Lord] Moran [earlier Sir Charles Wilson] (4), Dorothy, Lady Moran [earlier Dorothy, Lady Wilson], Herbert Seddon (5), Dr D Roberts (4), Jacques Vialle (3) and Philip Yeoman; [1st] Lord Morrison of Lambeth; Prince Hassan Ben El Mehdi, Moroccan Ambassador to Great Britain on a disaster in Agadir; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; John Colville on the...
Dates: Jul 1953 - Dec 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Q - Roo., 09 Dec 1940 - 18 Mar 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/196
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Quickswood [earlier Lord Hugh Cecil] on subjects including WSC's career, chances of war with the Soviet Union, and WSC's speeches (6); Admiral Arthur Radford; Prince Rainier of Monaco (2); Raja Sir Maharaj Singh; Habib Rahimtoola, Governor of Sind, Pakistan; J Arthur Rank, Chairman, Rank Organisation Limited, on a film about Douglas Bader; Helen Reid [Chairman], New York Herald Tribune, on the Herald Tribune Forum; 1st Lord Reith, former Chairman, Imperial...
Dates: 09 Dec 1940 - 18 Mar 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Sa., 28 Apr 1948 - 12 Oct 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/198
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Emir Zeid [Iraqi Ambassador to Britain]; [? Nourias Said, Prime Minister of Iraq]; 2nd Lord St Aldwyn [earlier Lord Quenington]; "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Leader of the House of Lords and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, on subjects including Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Salisbury himself being unable to continue at the Commonwealth Relations Office, the de-nationalization of steel, appointing a deputy Foreign...
Dates: 28 Apr 1948 - 12 Oct 1959
Conditions Governing Access: Open except folios 14-16 which are closed under S37(1), S40 and S41(1) of the Freedom of Information Act on advice from the Cabinet Office. Review 2027.
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Bernard Baruch., 06 Oct 1945 - 06 Jul 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/210A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondence between WSC and Baruch on subjects including: relations between the West and the Soviet Union; growing isolationism and deficit finance in the United States; the Soviet Union's resources; British nationalization; tributes to Baruch; the coronation; the need to complete NATO and a political settlement in Europe at the Bermuda Conference (1953); nuclear warfare; the export of gold by the Soviet Union; the West's attitude to Eastern Europe; the effect of Konrad Adenauer's...
Dates: 06 Oct 1945 - 06 Jul 1956
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with President Eisenhower., 04 Feb 1952 - 22 Aug 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/217
Scope and Contents Correspondence between WSC and Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States, on subjects including the 4-Power Summit at Geneva, American foreign policy, particularly on the Far East, former relations between Eisenhower and WSC, the declassification of war records, the defence of Formosa [later Taiwan], a medallion for WSC's 81st birthday, Western unity, Eisenhower's health, his relations with Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], atomic...
Dates: 04 Feb 1952 - 22 Aug 1959
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Public and Political: General: various papers. [most date from 1943]., Jan 1939 - Dec 1943

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/462
Scope and Contents Includes: cutting from the Daily Telegraph on a broadcast by President [Franklin] Roosevelt on ?13 February 1943 on matters including the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers and the situation in North Africa; list of members of the Other Club; copies of poem by [Arthur] Weber-Brown on WSC and Roosevelt; extract from a lecture given by WSC to the Royal United Services Institution on 17 April 1901 on the war in South Africa; cutting from the St Louis Post-Dispatch [United States] on the...
Dates: Jan 1939 - Dec 1943
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Reparations mission 1945, 1944 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBN 4
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Papers as a member of the British reparations Mission in Moscow and Berlin

Dates: 1944 - 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Report of front bench team visit to the Soviet Union, 1992-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/51
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Report from Calum Macdonald on a visit to Moscow, Feb 1992, by Ann Clwyd [overseas development and co-operation spokesman], Dale Campbell-Savours [overseas development spokesman] and Rhodri Morgan [energy spokesman], organised by the Future of Europe Trust.

Dates: 1992-03
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Report of the AEU's delegation to the Soviet Union, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CARN 1/10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers mainly comprising correspondence, diaries, articles, speeches, press cuttings and photographs.

Dates: 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Reports sent to the Foreign Office by Sandys relating to his tour of the Soviet Union in July and August 1931, 1931 - 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 1/2
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With paper by Sandys on "Notes on the workings of the Russian Air Service..", February 1932; and related correspondence

Dates: 1931 - 1932
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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Russia, 1943-02 - 1945-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/48
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Letters, cables and reports on Clementine's visit to the Soviet Union for the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund, which was chaired by Clementine, including a copy of her booklet "My Visit to Russia" [see CSCT 3/50 for ? versions in Russian].

Dates: 1943-02 - 1945-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Russia, 1945-02 - 1945-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/49
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Cables sent during Clementine's visit to the Soviet Union for the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund, which was chaired by Clementine (photostat copies, mostly faded), and personal exchanges between Churchill and Clementine.

Dates: 1945-02 - 1945-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Russia, The majority of the file dates from 1945.

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/50
Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on Clementine's visit to the Soviet Union for the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund, which was chaired by Clementine, including: versions in Russian of [?] Clementine's booklet "My Visit to Russia" [see CSCT 3/48 for the English version]; report of the British Military Mission to the USSR on the effect of the visit; papers on the problems faced by Polish, Russian and Czech wives of Britons in the Soviet Union; articles on Soviet work in ophthalmology; papers on the award...
Dates: The majority of the file dates from 1945.
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Russia, 1966-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 2/1/6
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Account of visit to Saint Petersburg [Leningrad] and Moscow, written in the form of letters to 2nd Lord Norwich. Also includes rough notes about Lady Diana’s mother, Violet, Duchess of Rutland.

Dates: 1966-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Russia, 1966-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 2/1/7
Scope and Contents

Typed transcript of DIAC 2/1/6, with cuttings and postcards.

Dates: 1966-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Russia, 1953-05 - 1955-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/109
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Includes: correspondence on a proposed Parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union in 1955, with correspondents including John Hall and John Tilney; memorandum on the Russian problem and the balance of power by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; memorandum by Charles Mott-Radclyffe on a visit to the Soviet Union by a British Parliamentary delegation in October 1954.

Dates: 1953-05 - 1955-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Russian diary, 1963-05 - 1963-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 4/1/14
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Typescript diary of the British aviation delegation's visit to the Soviet Union, May-Jun 1963, led by JA. Also includes a note on the resignation of [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] as Prime Minister following the Profumo Affair, and the race to succeed him.

Dates: 1963-05 - 1963-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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"Russian Money", 11 Jun 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/96/4-15
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Memorandum by the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later 1st Lord Brentford], on the influx of Soviet money and State companies into London. Subjects covered include: possible expulsion of the Russian embassy and state institutions because of actions during the General Strike and prevention of influx of money from the Soviet Union; political and financial connections between the Communist Party and Trade Unions in Great Britain. Typescript with pencil annotations.

Dates: 11 Jun 1926
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Sir Winston Churchill's letters to Lady Churchill, 1945-02 - 1945-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 2/34
Scope and Contents Subjects include: the Yalta Conference, February 1945; the value of Clementine's tour of the Soviet Union for Anglo-Russian relations; revelations about the Nazi concentration camps; Jack [John S Churchill]'s heart attack; the whereabouts of Clementine's nephew Giles Romilly, being kept as a hostage by the Germans; the collapse of the German forces; the Potsdam Conference, July 1945; worries about Churchill's health on his way to Yalta; his depression about the future of India; the hostile...
Dates: 1945-02 - 1945-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Small notebook containing details of AEU setup, with itinerary of visit to the Soviet Union, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CARN 1/9
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers mainly comprising correspondence, diaries, articles, speeches, press cuttings and photographs.

Dates: 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet family reunification cases, 1985-05 - 1987-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/16
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Correspondence on cases involving the Soviet Union.

Dates: 1985-05 - 1987-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet Family Reunification Cases and Soviet Jewry, 1987-02 - 1987-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/17
Scope and Contents

Correspondence on cases involving the Soviet Union.

Dates: 1987-02 - 1987-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet family reunification cases: Nikolai Baranov, 1983-11 - 1987-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/15
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subjects include: Central America; relations with the Soviet Union, including NK's involvement in various human rights cases; the Middle East; sanctions against South Africa; meetings with African leaders; Eastern Europe.

Dates: 1983-11 - 1987-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet family reunification cases: Sasha Blonsky, 1984-11 - 1987-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/14
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subjects include: Central America; relations with the Soviet Union, including NK's involvement in various human rights cases; the Middle East; sanctions against South Africa; meetings with African leaders; Eastern Europe.

Dates: 1984-11 - 1987-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Soviet family reunification cases: Soviet Jews, 1984-11 - 1987-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subjects include: Central America; relations with the Soviet Union, including NK's involvement in various human rights cases; the Middle East; sanctions against South Africa; meetings with African leaders; Eastern Europe.

Dates: 1984-11 - 1987-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.