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Soviet Union: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Soviet Economy: Recent Developments and Prospects to 1990") [Powell annotation: "An interesting & snappy paper, which shows the scale of the economic problems facing Gorbachev"] [released Jul 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/2529 f596
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 7pp
Themes: British relations with the Soviet Union, Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Defence (arms control), Security services & intelligence