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- 1995 Nov 30 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Prof Robert C Tucker, US civilian attaché, Moscow, 1945-46, academic and author, relating to the Victory Day celebrations, Moscow, USSR, following the German surrender, 9 May 1945 and US Soviet relations at that time; working in the US Embassy in Moscow with George F Kennan, US diplomat and author of the 'long telegram', an analysis of Soviet policies in the light of Russian history, Feb 1946; post-war atmosphere in the Soviet Union and the reaction of the Soviet people to the reintroduction of five year plans by Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1946; response of the Soviet Union to the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, 1948, and Soviet pressure on eastern European countries to reject the plan; the influence of the Stalin cult and its impact on Stalin's seventieth birthday celebrations, Dec 1949; Stalin's anti-foreign policies including the Anti-marriage act 1947, preventing Soviet women citizens married to non-Soviet citizens from leaving the country; and Tucker's views on the legacy of the Cold War in the US and in Russia. 51pp
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