Soviet Union
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 693 Collections and/or Records:
File
Diary, 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/10
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships within the Foreign Office, in particular with Anthony Eden; Cadogan's insight into the Axis campaigns in the Balkans; diplomatic concerns regarding Britain's activities in North Africa and Persia [now Iran]; reception of intelligence in advance of Hitler’s planned attack on Russia; Cadogan's opinions and influence upon Churchill's communications with Roosevelt, the voyage to the USA aboard the H.M.S. Prince of Wales and the drafting of the Joint...
Dates:
1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1942
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/11
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the Foreign Office, War Cabinet, and Special Operations Executive; Cadogan's role and interventions in ongoing strategic discussions between Churchill and Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Stalin, and De Gaulle; Cadogan's opinions on the Allied negotiations over future Soviet frontiers and the second front; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits, and the hosting of Soviet diplomats in Edinburgh and London; plans for an Allied...
Dates:
1942
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1943
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/12
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's role as an intermediary between Churchill and statesmen including Anthony Eden and Charles De Gaulle; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits; Turkey's relationship with the Allied powers and strained relations with the Soviet Union, including discussions with Ismet Inönü at the Adana Conference; the increasingly hostile relations between the Soviet Union and Poland...
Dates:
1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1944
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/13
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits; ongoing disputes between the Soviet Union and Poland relating to borders and the Curzon Line; meetings and preparations for Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings; notes on the progress of the Italian Campaign and Allied progress in France, Belgium, and Greece; discussions on 'World Organisation' and post-war planning; concerns...
Dates:
1944
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1945
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/15
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits, including meetings at Alupka, Athens, Cairo, Washington, and San Francisco; Cadogan's role in the Malta Conference, Yalta Conference, and the United Nations Conference on International Organisation; the Allied invasion of Germany; negotiations over the Polish question and Soviet actions in Eastern Europe; reactions to the death of...
Dates:
1945
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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Diary, 1-21 January 1946
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/16
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Ernest Bevin and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's role in the first meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation, and his pessimistic account of the progress made at delegation meetings; and comments on books read while travelling, including disparaging remarks on Douglas Goldring's "The Nineteen Twenties".
Dates:
1-21 January 1946
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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Draft texts by Martin Meredith, with some annotations, and transcripts of CS's official despatches and telegrams, 1984-08 - 1985-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOAM 10/14
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: CS's visit to the Soviet Union, May 1964, as Minister of Agriculture; negotiations with Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou, Presidents of France, over Britain's entry into Europe, 1969-71; the Soames Affair, 1969; the decline and fall of de Gaulle and the 1969 referendum.
Dates:
1984-08 - 1985-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Item
"Dubbing Mrs Churchill", 1945-05-09
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL 12/24/8
Scope and Contents
VE Day message from WSC to Stalin, broadcast to the Russian people by CSC [while in Moscow, Soviet Union], with the simultaneous Russian interpretation in the background.
Dates:
1945-05-09
Conditions Governing Access:
Access copy available.
Unknown
"European Unity", 28 Mar 1950
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/33C/578-622
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on subjects including: relations between Britain, France, West Germany [later part of Germany] and the Soviet Union; the presence of West Germany in the European Assembly, in Western defence and a united Europe; reconciliation between France and West Germany and the lead being taken by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer, Federal Chancellor of Germany; mutual assistance between Britain, France and West Germany for the good of Europe; reasons...
Dates:
28 Mar 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
Extracts from the Times and other sources relating to the Churchill family: visit to Russia, April-May 1945, 1945-03 - 1974-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/8/121
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Clementine Churchill's visit to the Soviet Union on behalf of the Aid to Russia Fund, including a copy of Clementine's booklet "My visit to Russia", a diary of the visit, kept by Grace Hamblin, Clementine's private secretary, and later notes and correspondence with the British Red Cross Society on the visit.
Dates:
1945-03 - 1974-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Unknown
"Foreign Affairs", 11 May 1953
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/51C/260-320
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on subjects including: WSC taking over at the Foreign Office; aims to conclude a truce in Korea and the repatriation of prisoners-of-war; the situation in Indo-China [later Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam]; the evacuation of Abadan, Egypt, the new Egyptian ruling junta and negotiations on the reduction of British forces in the Canal Zone; the Soviet occupation of East Germany [later part of Germany]; relations with West Germany [later part of...
Dates:
11 May 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Person
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich, 1931-2022 (President of the Soviet Union)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1931 - 2022
Person
Gorbacheva, Raisa Maximovna, 1929-1999 (Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1929 - 1999
File
Great Britain–USSR Association , 1971 - 1990
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ROBT 12/7
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on the Association, of which FR was Vice-President, with correspondents including: Arkady Vaksberg on FR's opinion of Andrei Vyshinsky; General Sir Michael Gow, Commandant, Royal College of Defence Studies.Also includes: newsletter article on Clementine Churchill's visit to the Soviet Union in 1945; article on FR's personal impressions of the Soviet Union under Stalin and Khrushchev; transcript of a lecture by FR on his memories of the Soviet Union;...
Dates:
1971 - 1990
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Person
Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich, 1909-1989 (Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union)
Person
Dates:
Existence: 1909 - 1989
Fonds
Herbert Clinch : material relating to a 1935 trip to the Soviet Union
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9996
Scope and Contents
The archive contains photographs, postcards, and notes from the Soviet Union, Herbert Clinch's own articles on the trip, with additional ephemeral material such as money, cigarettes, and posters advertising Clinch's talk on his trip and his candidature for local elections.
Dates:
1934-1995 (circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Human rights cases, 1984-05 - 1986-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/11
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on human rights cases, particularly involving the Soviet Union.
Dates:
1984-05 - 1986-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Human rights cases: correspondence on cases involving the Soviet Union, 1984-01 - 1987-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/10
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:
1984-01 - 1987-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Illustrated folder presented to Clementine in memory of her visit to the Leningrad Pioneer Palace, 1945
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/53
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Subjects covered by the material in this section include: Chartwell; Russia and CSC's visit in 1945; work in WSC's Essex constituency, Wanstead and Woodford; and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
Dates:
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.
File
Iron Curtain and Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] , 1953-12 - 1954-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/1/51
Scope and Contents
General correspondence and papers on Eastern European affairs, with correspondents including: [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon]; [Arthur] Christopher Soames; [John] Selwyn Lloyd [Minister of State, Foreign Office] (2); Ronald Russell.
Also includes: note on a meeting between JA and an official from the Soviet embassy on the Berlin Conference, 1954 and Soviet policies towards the West.
Dates:
1953-12 - 1954-08
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.
Fonds
John Holroyd-Doveton: notes and correspondence relating to Maxim Litvinov
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10406
Scope and Contents
Notes and correspondence of John Holroyd-Doveton relating to research for his book 'Maxim Litvinov: a biography' (Newton Abbot: Woodlands, [2013?]), including correspondence with and recollections by Litvinov's daughter Tanya Litvinov.
Dates:
2002-2004 and undated
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Unknown
"Korea", 05 Jul 1950
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/36A/114-133
Scope and Contents
Speech notes for WSC's speech (House of Commons) on debating the Korean crisis, the lack of information given to Parliament, Communist propaganda, British and Commonwealth support for the United States's intervention, Conservative support for the Government's position on the crisis, accusations of Conservative war-mongering, the protection of Western Europe by the nuclear deterrent, the increasing production of atom bombs by the Soviet Union, and the need for settlement with the Soviet Union...
Dates:
05 Jul 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
File
"Lady C Aid to Russia", 1941-08 - 1943-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 6/2/36
Scope and Contents
Photograph album relating to Clementine Churchill’s work on behalf of the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund. Subjects include: Clementine and Agnes Maisky [the Soviet Ambassador's wife], inspecting clothes bound for the Soviet Union in Knightsbridge [London]; Ivan Maisky [Soviet Ambassador to Britain] inspecting medical equipment; crates and X-ray apparatus in the Red Cross stores department; Clementine admiring a doll at the Aid to Russia stall in Belgrave Square market; ambulances bound for...
Dates:
1941-08 - 1943-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston including telegrams from Russia, 1945-02 - 1945-07
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/29
Scope and Contents
Subjects include: the journey to the Yalta Conference; the death of Admiral Sir William Goodenough; public concern at conditions in France and Clementine's suggestion that Churchill could influence the Americans to release transport for food and coal distribution; Churchill's success at Yalta [Soviet Union]; a V-2 rocket attack on part of the Fulmer Chase Maternity Home for officers' wives [of which Clementine was Chairman]; Clementine's journey to the Soviet Union for the Red Cross Aid to...
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.
File
Letters from Max Born to Gustav Born, 1944 - 1946
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BORN 3/3/6
Scope and Contents
On subjects including: a visit from three Indian scientists, including Meghnad Saha; Max's visit to Oxford to give a lecture at the invitation of Lord Cherwell; his recommendations for the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physics; family and friends; the war and international affairs; politics and philosophy, including his opinion of dialectic materialism, of communism, and of religion; his lecture to the Institute of Physics; his professional disagreement with Raman; news from Max's cousin Helen...
Dates:
1944 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.