The British-Soviet Friendship Society was a British organisation active from 1946 to 1991.
The society's papers are held at the
Marx Memorial Library
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Its collection comprises over ...
,
while the
University of Hull
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's archives hold papers relating to the society's 1952 trip to the Soviet Union.
The society was a successor to the Friends of the Soviet Union (established in 1930), the Russia Today Society (1934), and the Anglo-Soviet Friendship Committee (1940).
From 1956 to 1990, it published a monthly or bimonthly journal ''British-Soviet Friendship'', retitled ''BSFS Journal'' in 1990.
References
Defunct political organisations based in the United Kingdom
Soviet Union friendship associations
Soviet Union–United Kingdom relations
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