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T ?8. 1<&¥ (o <36606865040018 A <36606865040018 Bayer. Staatsbibliothek ^ ((o British Foreign Office: Russia Correspondence 1946-1948 GUIDE to The Scholarly Resources microfilm edition of the Public Record Office Collection Text- F.O. 371 Scholarly Resources Inc. SR: Wilmington, Ddawart 7 British Foreign Office: Russia Correspondence 1946-1948 GUIDE to The Scholarly Resources microfilm edition of the Public Record Office Collection Text: F.O. 371 Scholarly Resources Inc. SR: Wilmington, Delaware M^%, je/S5L(-£ ©1982 by Scholarly Resources Inc. All rights reserved First published 1982 Printed in the United States of America SCHOLARLY RESOURCES INC. 104 Greenhill Avenue Wilmington, Delaware 19805 ( 8«yerl»oh* J j ftttattblblloth** I l^ MQnohM *J j^ !i/i<rot<i TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Content and Organization of the Foreign Office Records v Format of the Scholarly Resources Guide to the Records vii DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL ix SAMPLE DOCKET (1920-1945) x SUBJECT GUIDE 1 INTRODUCTION Content and Organization of the Foreign Office Records The British Foreign Office Records of General Political Correspondence for Russia, 1946-1948, in F.O. 371 is the collection of documents describing British foreign affairs concerning the Soviet Union. The microfilm edition of this collection, published by Scholarly Resources Inc., contains all of the volumes of the Russia Correspondence bound by the Public Record Office. These documents in the Russia Correspondence provide a wealth of information describing governmental, political, military, and economic affairs in the Soviet Union as well as policies and events in Anglo-Soviet relations. The correspondence concerning the Soviet Union consists primarily of com munications between the Foreign Office and various British embassies and consu lates in Europe, usually in the Soviet Union. These records are the London files, containing material received from abroad or from London departments, and drafts of material originating in and sent out of London. In addition, the collection includes public proclamations by various national leaders, governments and organ izations, communications with foreign governments, pertinent publications, personal requests made of the Foreign Office by private citizens and groups, and records of questions asked by Members of Parliament, directed to the Foreign Office. Many miscellaneous dispatches and papers round out the body of annual correspondence. In 1920, the Foreign Office adopted a new system for registering documents, which was adopted by different departments at different times. After the change, a new section of the Foreign Office, the Opening Branch, identified the country to which an incoming paper pertained and then sent the paper to the appropriate division of another new section, the Archives Branch. Each division of the Archives Branch assigned a registry number from its own annual series. The Northern Depart ment, in whose series the Russia Correspondence is included, is identified by the prefix letter "N." The 1920 system of registration reference numbers appears on the documents in this collection. N 1669 / 309 / 38 Departmental Designation, I Registry Number File Number — Index Number — This number above is called the full registry number. Confusion arises, however, because the full registry number is labeled on the docket as the "Registry Number." (See Sample Docket.) The term "registry number" accurately applies v only to the number in the registry stamp in the upper right hand corner of the docket. The full registry number (labeled "Registry Number") is im portant because the file number contained in it appears only there and nowhere else on docket sheets after the change of 1920. The Sample Dockets below illustrate the position and use of these numbers. Scholarly Resources has published the bound volumes of the Russia Corre spondence on reels of microfilm. Reels are numbered consecutively for each year, with numbering beginning at Reel 1 for each year. VI Format of the Scholarly Resources Guide to the Records The guide to the Scholarly Resources edition of the British Foreign Office: Russia Correspondence F.O. 371 lists each file in the order in which it appears in the volumes, followed by a condensed description of its contents. Within larger files, the descriptions are broken into separate entries for successive groups of documents. The registry number of only the first document in each subject group is listed in the left column, labeled "DOCUMENT." The use of the term "DOCUMENT" is necessary to avoid confusion in the use of the terms "registry number" and "full registry number." Only the first registry (DOCUMENT) number of each subject group is listed. (Listing the registry number for every document would prove cumbersome and would hamper document retrieval.) The condensed subject descriptions facilitate retrieval as many documents in one area of a file often have identical subject titles. Semicolons separate different subjects within each subject group. The guide has a new heading for every change in year, reel, or volume. The second heading identifies the columns for the reference registry number of the first document in each condensed subject de scription group (DOCUMENT), the number of each "kept with" or file (FILE), the condensed subject descriptions (SUBJECT), and the page number of the first document in each condensed subject group (PAGE). vii DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL The most rapid document retrieval method, using the Subject Guide, avoids any confusion of document, registry, or file numbers. Once the desired subject is located, the researcher checks the page number of the first document in that subject description group. He now knows that the desired subject follows that page number and precedes the next page number in the list, and the heading supplies the proper year, reel and volume. In the illustration below, if the researcher would like information on the British attitude toward the Soviets due to the outcome of the Danube Conference, he can go to page 62 of Volume 71630 in reel 1 of 1948. YEAR: 1948 ROLL: 1 VOLUME: 71629 DOCUMENT FILE SUBJECT PAGE 1935 1 Policy towards the U.S.S.R.—Mr. Churchill's views; Soviet article attacking 'British Ally' article on British schools 1A 2009 " Soviet impressions of England; "The Second Front Controversy"; Mr. Wells' speech on the Soviet Union 13 33 " Soviet allegations against D. Buzzard, of the British Embassy in Moscow; Anglo-Soviet Treaty; Soviet attack on Major-General Maclean 66 560 " Soviet attitude to grant of independence to Burma; Major-General Hilton 61 YEAR: 1948 ROLL: | 1 | VOLUME: 17163(1 DOCUMENT FILE ^*V^. SUBJECT PAGE 2303 1 Major-General Hilton; conversation between Lord Duncannon and Mr. Starikov; First (cont.) Secretary at Embassy in Pafc^s ^ 3 3535 " Anglo-Soviet relations; SovieS^ssistant Service Attache"; British contact with the "Pravda" Childrens' Home -JV^- ^ 11 4066 " Soviet press attack on Lord Halifax^N^oviet anti-British propaganda; American Inde pendence Day Party in Moscow ^^C \ 27 8421 Report on "New Times"; Britain's Medical Sfe^yice\ and the National Health Service; Sir Roberts personal views on Stalin