Formation | 1946 |
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Dissolved | 1991 |
Legal status | Defunct |
Purpose | Diplomatic organisation |
The British-Soviet Friendship Society was a British membership organisation for the promotion of political and cultural links between the United Kingdom and the various ethnic groups of the Soviet Union. [1] The society was active from 1946 to 1991, and was a successor to the groups Friends of the Soviet Union, established in 1930, the Russia Today Society (1934), and the Anglo-Soviet Friendship Committee (1940). [1]
From 1956 to 1990, it published a monthly or bimonthly journal British-Soviet Friendship, retitled BSFS Journal in 1990. [2] In 1952 the society visited the Soviet Union. [3]
The society's papers are held at the Marx Memorial Library, [1] while the University of Hull's archives hold papers relating to the society's 1952 trip to the Soviet Union. [3]