Czechoslovakia Resources at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Jeannette Anderson

Anson Conger Goodyear (1877 – 1964) - Coal Commission for Central Europe, President - 1919

Susan Groag Bell (1926 – 2015) - A Czech-American historian and a pioneer in Women's Studies.

Edvard Beneš (1884-1948) Czechoslovak statesman; foreign minister, 1918-1935; president, 1935-1938 and 1939-1948.

Relates to activities of anti-Bolshevik forces in Siberia during the period from October 1917 to November 1918.

Fictionalized account, relating to activities of the Czechoslovak Legion during the Russian Civil War. Published in Adventure Magazine.

Stanislav Budin (1903-1979)
Czechoslovak journalist and author

Digital copies of selected documents from Bulgarian governmental archives, relating to Bulgarian participation in the Warsaw Pact military intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Ján Čarnogurský (1944-) Czechoslovak politician; Prime Minister of Slovakia, 1991-1992.

Broadcast transcripts

Emanuel Chalupny (1879-1958)

Chang Hsin-hai [張歆海] (1898 – 1972) - Chinese Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal, Poland, and Czechoslovakia

Serial issues, broadsides, handbills, and pamphlets, mainly issued by resistance groups in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, and other German-occupied countries during World War II. Includes some issuances of anti-German groups in exile, some issuances of American occupation forces in Germany at the end of World War II, and a few World War I items. Some items are photographic reproductions. Collected by the War Library of the Cleveland Public Library.

Sound recordings and video tape of proceedings, transcripts of conference papers, photographs of conference participants, and printed matter relating to Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Conference sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Use copies of sound and video recordings available.

Relates to Czechoslovak émigré politics. Agreement between the Czech National Committee in London and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Wahrung Sudetendeutscher Interessen in Munich.

Correspondence, telegrams, orders, diaries, proclamations, newspapers, periodicals, clippings, and photographs, relating to the organization, training, and activities of the First Czechoslovakian Army under General Ludvik Svoboda on the Eastern front, 1941-1945.

Serial issues, books, and pamphlets, published by underground and uncensored presses in Czechoslovakia, relating to political and cultural conditions in Czechoslovakia.

This collection contains a typescript about Czechoslovak land reform

32 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 microfilm reel, 1 motion picture film reel, 1 phonorecord

Rehabilitation center of organization of veterans of the Czechoslovak World War II resistance movement.

Sound recordings of proceedings, and printed copies of preparatory briefing materials for conference participants, relating to political events in Czechoslovakia from 1987 to 1989, culminating in the fall of the communist regime.

Petr Den (1898-1970) - Pseudonym of Ladislav Radimský: Czechoslovak diplomat, émigré writer in the United States, editor, Perspektivy, 1961 to 1963, and Proměny, 1964 to 1970.

Relates to demographic characteristics, and social, cultural and other organizations, of the Jewish community in Prague and surrounding areas. Includes charts.

Relates to political developments in Czechoslovakia, and especially in Brno. 1989-1992

Ivo D. Duchacek

American clergyman; Young Men's Christian Association chaplain with the Czechoslovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1920.

Edvardas Turauskas (1896-1966) Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of Lithuania to Prague, Belgrade, and Bucharest (Relevant for the topic)

The European Technical Advisers was a private American advisory organization created in the spring and summer of 1919 by Herbert Hoover, head of the American Relief Administration, in response to concerns that post-peace treaty demobilization of the Central European network of military advisers would leave a serious vacuum in the coordination of highly-complicated economic and technical functions. Technological novelty, governmental disorganization and international antagonisms, as well as wartime disruption of industrial infrastructures, were major problems threatening the rapid re-establishment of economic stability in the area.

Karl L. Falk (1911–1988)

British social worker.

Ladislav Feierabend (1891-1969) Czechoslovak agricultural economist; minister of agriculture, 1938-1940; minister of finance, Czechoslovak government-in-exile (London), 1941-1945.

In the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, numerous psychological warfare leaflets were prepared by the Free Europe Press (FEP) of the Free Europe Committee. The group worked in cooperation with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funding much of the operations.

Radola Gajda - Major general, Russian army; commander, Czechoslovak Legion, 1918, and White Russian forces, 1918-1919.

Tomáš Glanc, born 1969 in Prague, is a professor at Zurich University, Switzerland. Topics of his research include modern slavic literature, Russian culture, samizdat and unofficial media, performance in Eastern Europe, Russian and Czech modernism, Slavic ideology, and contemporary Russian art and literature.

Bulletins, press releases, reports, and correspondence relating to Allied military governmental structure in Germany after World War II, governmental structure in Switzerland, the Common Market, Sudeten Germans, the views of Senator William E. Jenner on American foreign policy, and drafts of a book on the impact and aftermath of the Commission for Relief in Belgium.

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022)

Czechoslovak émigré in Great Britain.

Secretary to Hubert Ripka, minister of state and deputy minister of foreign affairs, Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile.

Published by the Czechoslovak Ministry of National Defense. Translated by R. Halhous and K. Dolezal.

Ernest Lloyd Harris (1870- ) US Consul General, Irkutsk, Siberia

Arnošt Heidrich, Czechoslovak diplomat; secretary general, Czechoslovak foreign office, 1945-1948.

Jiří Horák (1924–2003) Czechoslovak social democratic leader; emigre and political scientist in the United States; secretary-general, Council of Free Czechoslovakia, 1974-1994; chairman, Ceskoslovenská Strana Sociálne Demokratická, 1990-1992.

Peter Rudolph Hruby (1921-2017) - Czech historian; émigré in Australia.

Lincoln Hutchinson (1866–1940) was born in San Francisco, California. He graduated from the University of California-Berkeley in 1889 and received an M.A. in economics from Harvard University. He held many positions during his career: professor of economics and commerce at Berkeley; dean of the College of Letters and Science at Berkeley; professor of economics and sociology at Stanford University; consular attaché in South America and Europe; director of relief in the American Relief Administration in Russia, Germany, and Czechoslovakia after World War I; and technical advisor in Czechoslovakia under Jan Masaryk.

Italian ministry of foreign affairs.

Miroslav Ivanov (1929-1999) Czechoslovak writer.

Joseph Earle Jacobs (born 1893, Johnston, South Carolina, died January 5, 1971, Washington, DC) was a US diplomat.
He was a recess appointment as Ambassador in Czechoslovakia from late 1948 until he was replaced in June 1949. Later he was the US Ambassador to Poland (from 1955 to 1957) at the time of the Poznań upheaval of workers in 1956.[1][2] From 1949 to 1955, Jacobs was Special Assistant for the Mutual Defense Assistance Program in Rome.

Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin (1862-1946) General, French army; commander of Czechoslovak and other Allied forces in Siberia, 1918-1920.

Chinese diplomat; ambassador to the Netherlands, 1933-1944; ambassador to Norway, 1945-1950. Referred to as both Jin Wensi and Wensi Jin.

Luděk Jirousek - Czech-American endocrinologist.

Dr. Karel Kaplan (1928 – 2023) - CSc. is a Czech historian specializing in the history of post-war Czechoslovakia.

White Russian Army officer

Otto Karmin (1882-1920) - Austrian historian.

Kerno, Ivan S. (1891-1961) Czechoslovak lawyer and diplomat and a United Nations legal official.

Central committee of the Czechoslovak communist party.

Hana Konečná (1943- ) Czech dissident.

Valdimir Joseph Krajina
(1905-1993) - Czechoslovak politician; and resistance leader during World War II.

Jaroslav Krejčí (1929 – 2006) - Depicts scenes relating to political dissent in Czechoslovakia and to the fall of the communist régime.

Kryštůfek, Zdeněk, 1920-2011 - American political scientist.

Vlastimil Kybal (1880-1958) Czech historian, professor at Charles University and diplomat. He mainly dealt with the spiritual figures of the Middle Ages and the politics of the early modern period.

Czechoslovak Legion in Russia

Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart (1887–1970) - KCMG was a British diplomat, journalist, author, and secret agent. His 1932 book Memoirs of a British Agent became an international bestseller by telling of his experiences in Russia in 1918 following the Bolshevik Revolution

Radomír Luža (1922-2009) - Czech-American historian and poet, as well as a member of the anti-Nazi resistance in Czechoslovakia.

Hungarian Communist Party Central Committee

American Amnesty International worker.

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937) was a Czechoslovak statesman, progressive political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia.

McLean Katherine S. - Young Women's Christian Association worker, Camp Fremont and Camp Kearny, California, 1918-1919.

Sudeten German fascist.

Leon Mitkiewicz-Żółłtek, (1896-1972). Chief of Second Intelligence Bureau, General Staff member, Deputy Commander, 1st Army Division, Polish Military Mission, Combined Chiefs of Staff, Washington

Michael Mudry (1909-1978) - Editor-In-Chief, RFE, Czechoslovak Desk, New York

Obshchestudencheskii russkii khor imeni A. A. Arkhangel'skogo -Russian student choir in Prague

Štefan Osuský (1890-1973) was a Slovak lawyer, diplomat, politician and university professor.

Heinz Pannwitz (1911-1975) German secret police official; head of the commission for investigation of the assassination of R. Heydrich.

Parshina Elizaveta Aleksandrovna (1913-2002) - Soviet intelligence agent

Ferdinand Peroutka (1895-1978) Czech journalist and writer. A prominent political thinker and journalist during the First Czechoslovak Republic, Peroutka was persecuted by the Nazi regime for his democratic convictions and imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp

Carrie Pickett - American Red Cross nurse in Siberia and Poland, 1919-1921.

Jaroslav George Polach (1914-1993), American international economist and lawyer, government official. Recipient Achievement Certified award, Internal Revenue Service, 1973.

Polish legation with the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London during World War II.

Poslední léto presidenta Osvoboditele -1 videotape cassette (digital copy available in the reading room )

Vilém Prečan (1933-) Czech historian and political dissident.

Procházka Fedor (Theodor) (1914-1995) - Czechoslovak journalist; correspondent in Berlin, 1938-1944.

American radio broadcasting organization operating Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. The Czechoslovak Broadcasting Department records include scripts, special programs, and thumbnail sketches (with schedules), and sound recordings. Target regions include Czech Republic.

American radio broadcasting organization operating Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. The Czech Service Records include scripts, special programs, and thumbnail sketches (with schedules), and sound recordings. Target regions include Czech Republic.

Ernst Rosenthal - Chief, Detective Division, Theresienstadt concentration camp, Bohemia.

Joseph Slabey Rouček (1902-1984) Joseph S. Roucek was a political theorist and author. He wrote and coauthored several books on education and politics.

Ginetta Sagan (1925-2000) - American human rights advocate; West Coast coordinator, Amnesty International; vice president, Humanitas; executive director, Aurora Foundation.

Richard Schidlof - Czechoslovak lawyer

Miroslav G. Schubert - Czechoslovak diplomat; chargéd'affaires in Brazil, 1921-1925; chargéd'affaires in Iran, 1927-1932; counselor and deputy envoy to Germany, 1934-1938; consul general in Munich, 1945-1948.

Jiří Šetina (1932-2018) - a lawyer and former Prosecutor General of the Czech Republic

Karol Sidor (1901-1953) - Slovak nationalist politician and journalist. Slovak ambassador to the Vatican, 1939-1945; subsequently émigré in Canada

Jānis Sīkstulis - Latvian visitor to Czechoslovakia, 1968.

Karel Šiktanc (1928-2021) - was a Czech poet and children's writer, from Hrebeč

Klement Simončič (1912-2010) - Simoncic served on the Czech desk of Radio Free Europe from its beginning

Josef Škvorecký (1924-2012) - Josef Škvorecký, CM was a Czech writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada.

Jan Slavík (1885-1978)

Juraj Slávik (1890-1969) Slovak politician, diplomat, writer and translator

Slovak League of America - an organization that was established to unite Slovak Americans and promote their cultural, social, and political interests.

Serial issues, pamphlets, election campaign literature, other printed matter, and memorabilia, relating to various aspects of twentieth-century Slovak history and politics, including the Soviet invasion of 1968 and the end of the communist regime in 1989; and to post-1989 political, social and economic conditions, and elections, in Slovakia.

Jiří Šolc (1932-2010) -Czechoslovak (Czech) military historian and parachutist during World War II. He wrote a number of books relating to the Czechoslovak resistance during the Second World War.

Jiří Starek collector.

Eric Steinfeldt Collector

Stransky, Jaroslav (1884-1973) was a Czech and Czechoslovakian First Republic and post-war politician , journalist and lawyer . During the Second World War and after 1948, he worked in Czechoslovak exile.

Rose Burgunder Styron - Amnesty International worker.

Petruška Šustrová (1947-2023) was a Czech columnist, translator from English and Polish, and dissident.

Zuzana Swansea - American photographer, born in 1946 in the Czech Republic

Eduard Taborsky (1910-1996) Czechoslovak diplomat; personal aide to President Edvard Beneš, 1939-1945; minister to Sweden, 1945-1948.

Dorothy Louise Thompson - American historian

Štefan Tiso (1897-1959) Slovak lawyer, Premier of Slovakia from 1944 to 1945, also served as president of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, Foreign Minister, and Minister of Justice. He was a distant cousin of Reverend Josef Tiso, President of the Slovak Republic.

Written by Czechoslovak intellectuals to protest the partition of Czechoslovakia authorized by the Munich Conference.

Tschechoslovakische Nachrichten - Series of bulletins relating to Czechoslovakia during and immediately after World War II. Includes transcripts of wartime radio broadcasts from London. Later issues stated to be issuances of the Czechoslovak Legation in Switzerland.

Nikolay Alexandrovich Tsurikov [Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Цу́риков] (1886-1957) - Russian political writer; émigré in Czechoslovakia.

Political scientist

Ústřední vedení odboje domácího (ÚVOD) - Czechoslovak resistance movement during World War II.

Radio Free Europe editorial analyst, 1950-1957; United States Department of State interpreter.

Ana Wardlaw

White, Charles H., 1865-1952, American consulting geologist for mining companies.

Jiří Wolf (1952-) - Czechoslovak dissident; political prisoner in Czechoslovakia, 1978-1981 and 1983-1989.

Woody, Thomas (1891- 1960) -

Pavel Žáček (1969-) Czech academic and politician who served as the first Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the Czech government agency and research institute tasked with investigation of the crimes of the Communist regime of Czechoslovakia that was declared to be criminal in 1993

Relates to the career of General Heliodor Píka, Czechoslovak army officer, and chief of the Czechoslovak military mission in the Soviet Union during World War II, who was executed in Czechoslovakia in 1949. Includes two separate drafts, one of them a photocopy, prepared by supporters of Píka. The text includes copies of the indictment, portions of the trial transcript, and letters by Píka.