State Social-Political Library
Current attempts to bring the State Social-Political Library (Gosudarstvennaia Obshchestvenno-Politicheskaia Biblioteka, GOPB) in Moscow under control of the Moscow State Social University elicited the following letter from the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Karin Englund, IALHI's General Secretary, wrote a note in support of it.
To the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation,
Mikhail Efimovich Shvydkoj
Dear Mikhail Efimovich: