Abstract: The article is devoted to the need to develop a new British-USSR policy faced by Winston Churchill after the conservatives won the parliamentary election of 1951. In her research Gorelova demonstrates differences in approaching the aforesaid task by the prime minister and foreign service officers at Foreign Office. By analyzing the correspondence between Winston Churchill and Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight David Eisenhower, Gorelova proves that the USA had a certain influence on the foreign policy of the Great Britain already in early 1950s. In her research Gorelova has applied special methods of historical research such as the narrative method that allows to successively reconstruct approaches of the Great Britain to their relations with the USSR in 1951 - 1953; histrorical genetic method that reveals the sources of the cold war; and comparative method that allows to demonstrate peculiarities of the Great Britain and USA policies towards the USSR. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that for the first time in the Russian historiography, based on the analysis of the British National Archives, Gorelova reconstructs the foreign policy of the Great Britain in relation to the USSR for the period since October 1951 till June 1953. The main conclusion is that Winston Churchill's initiative to establish relatinos with the USSR through top level negotiations did not have adequate consideration at Foreign Office whose officials had only the cold war in their mind. For them, positive changes in the British-Soviet relations would create a threat for the West military and political integration which would, in its turn, give advantages to the USSR. From their point of view, bilateral relations with Moscow would be even more threatful because could create difficulties in the British-American relations.