Cold War

Collections are from US secretaries of state, individual activists and propagandists, and many émigré groups involved in the ideological struggle. Important subsets are collections relating to “citizen diplomacy,” in which individuals and organizations acted to defuse international tensions, particularly the danger of nuclear conflict; records of organizations on the front lines, such as the Free Europe Committee (later RFE/RL), involved in broadcasting and other activities aiming to penetrate the Iron Curtain; and papers relating to the role of the Third World in the confrontation. Other collections include the Archives of Soviet communist party and Soviet state microfilm collection. In these collections you will find government documents, records, letters, and transcriptions and topics such as Soviet Union-United States relations, policy, communism and anti-communism.