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PDF 90 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ('Time' Magazine interview with President Gorbachev) [CDP: "Some fascinating bits"; MT: "Some contradictory theses!"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Privy Council Office record of conversation ("Lord President's Visit to St Gallen Conference") [Howe, Professor Vassilenko: integration of the Soviet Republics into "new" Europe] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO telegram 1016 to UKE Moscow (1930Z) ("Defection of Bolshoi Star") [Hurd: "very unfortunate timing just before the Prime Minister's visit"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (Bolshoi principal male dancer defects to UK) [CDP: "this weekend (of all weekends)", "he just turned up"; eve of MT visit to Moscow] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1045 to FCO (1513Z) ("Yeltsin's Programme") [details & analysis] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1033 to FCO (0553Z) ("Views of Shakhnazarov") [Lithuania] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Project Marathon") [cover note referring to President Bush message to MT (not attached) regarding US/UK refusals of export licences for international consortium to instal transcontinental fibre optics system across Soviet Union; draft MT follow-up messages to relative Governments] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram U/N to FCO (1248Z) ("Military Reform") [details from Soviet newspaper report] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Keith Joseph (Cable & Wireless/GEC applications for export licenses for equipment to lay fibre optic cables across Soviet Union) ['Project Marathon': reason for refusal] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Support for Mr Gorbachev") [proposed change in foreign policy, to accommodate Gorbachev's declining influence] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 723 to FCO (1755Z) ("Possible Economic Help for the Soviet Union") [details of Soviet request for FRG credits & Western aid package to stimulate economic reform] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1091 to FCO (0922Z) ("Soviet Internal: Violence in Kirghizia") [situation report] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1098 to FCO (1333Z) ("Lithuania") [Lithuanian Supreme Council talks with Gorbachev at Council of Federation in Moscow] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1109 to FCO (1309Z) ("Soviet Internal: Yeltsin and the RSFSR Sovereignty Declaration") [details & speculation on Gorbachev's reaction] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Chairman Yeltsin message to MT (election as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation) [response to MT congratulations] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Cabinet Office ("Telephone Communication with Moscow") [extension of UK Embassy private line to the Kremlin & to No.10] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1119 to FCO ("Soviet Union: The State of Economic Reform") [Supreme Soviet refuses to endorse Government reform proposals: report] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Luxembourg telegram 189 to FCO (1941Z) ("Foreign Affairs Council, 18 June MIPT: EPC: Assistance to Soviet Union") [report on proceedings] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hurd) ["Financial Assistance for the Soviet Union"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Paris telegram 712 to FCO (1840Z) ("Economic Help for the Soviet Union") [report on Mitterrand's likely stance at Dublin & Houston summits] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to UKE Moscow (requests from UK journalists to interview Gorbachev) [Dimbleby, BBC; Bruce Anderson, Sunday Telegraph] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("More Soviet Military Complaints") ["We can no longer assume that Gorbachev will automatically secure re-election"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Soviet Union") [Kossov, Charles Powell: Gorbachev's personal assessment of his meeting with MT; oral message from MT to Gorbachev via Soviet ambassador; NATO summit; arms control: non-circumvention] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE East Berlin record of conversation (1255Z) (Hurd, Shevardnadze) ["Secretary of State's Bilateral with Shevardnadze": 2+4 negotiations/Germany; NATO/Warsaw Pact Declaration; START/non-circumvention] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE East Berlin record of conversation (1800Z) (Hurd, James Baker) ["Economic Help for the Soviet Union"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1152 to FCO (1800Z) ("Russian Party Conference: Speech by General Makashov") ["A bitter attack on the effects of perestroika... by one of the younger serving Generals"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Prime Minister Prunskiene (Lithuanian independence) ["I did indeed raise the question of the Baltic States with President Gorbachev... I hope that it will be possible now for talks to begin with the Soviet leadership"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1164 to FCO (1234Z) ("Soviet Internal: Ukrainian Party Congress") [report: new leadership; approval to proceed with plan for sovereignty declaration] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1174 to FCO (1330Z) ("USSR: Possible Postponement of the CPSU Congress") ["Reports that [Gorbachev] is trying to... avoid an attempt to unseat him as Party leader"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to President Gorbachev (Europe and the future of the Soviet Union) [MT's recent visit to USSR; NATO summit/German reunification; financial aid for USSR] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1182 to FCO (0925Z) ("Possible Postponement of the CPSU Congress") [Russian media coverage; Yeltsin's reaction] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 1535 to FCO (2300Z) ("Aid to the Soviet Union") ["Americans greatly appreciated... [MT's role] in stopping what had seemed to be an unstoppable move towards an unconditional... aid package"; IMF membership for USSR] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1193 to FCO (1152Z) ("Soviet Internal: Party Congress: New Draft Party Programme") ["claimed as a compromise... a considerable achievement if Gorbachev can get this endorsed"; details & analysis] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1190 to FCO (0852Z) ("Lithuania: Gorbachev meetings with Landsbergis") [report & analysis] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 1554 to FCO (2330Z) ("Assistance to the Soviet Union") [James Baker press conference: US conditions for concerted Western approach] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Washington telegram 1557 to FCO (0005Z) ("Aid to the Soviet Union") [US conditions for concerted Western approach] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jun 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1205 to FCO (0734Z) ("Lithuania agrees to suspend independence declaration") [report] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1211 to FCO (1114Z) ("28th CPSU Congress") [report & analysis] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1222 to FCO (1324Z) ("Lithuania") ["Ryzhkov confirms end of economic blockade... [and] readiness to begin negotiations"; details & analysis] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1221 to FCO (1226Z) ("USSR: Party Congress: Comment on Proceedings So Far") [report & analysis] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1227 to FCO (0628Z) ("Soviet Union: Summary of Latest Developments") [2nd day of CPSU Congress - report & analysis; Lithuania; miners' strike; Western aid] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Amery letter to Hurd (Soviet Union: current situation) [views of Soviet junior officers; rise of a 'Soviet Hitler' predicted] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("The British-Soviet Lecture") [theme; nomination of speaker] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("The 28th CPSU Congress") [report] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Kapitza Foundation") ["a sensible and worthwhile project. The Russians have approached... [MT] in order to gain political support to help to get the project off the ground"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1276 to FCO (0446Z) ("Soviet Economy: Reform Programme "500 Days"") ["Alternative reform programme... closely linked with Eltsin"; details] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Christopher MacRae minute to Charles Powell ("The Split in the Soviet Communist Party") [Yeltsin's resignation & departure of Democratic Platform: details & analysis] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to Ivashko (1445Z) (election as Deputy Secretary General of the Communist Party) ["wish you success in furthering the all important cause of reform"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Keith Joseph ('Marathon' project) [defends Government decision not to grant export license; suggest meeting of officials with representatives of the Marathon partners] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 90 Jul 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 1305 to FCO (1150Z) ("Visit of Kohl to USSR: Financial Aid") ["Gorbachev rejects financial aid with strings attached": Pravda report on Kohl/Gorbachev press conference] [released Jul 2018]

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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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