BBC World Service radio broadcast recordings: British broadcasting service. The collection contains sound recordings of radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia and to Vietnam.
Beichman (Arnold) papers: American political journalist and author. Consists of writings, correspondence, and research materials relating to Arnold Beichman's career as a political journalist and author. The collection contains numerous articles and columns published in The Washington Times, as well as drafts of several books written by Beichman. The research materials consist of articles, clippings, and other printed matter largely pertaining to communism, the Soviet Union, and politics in the United States and Great Britain.
Center for Civil Society International records: Private US organization promoting contact with voluntary organizations abroad. Consists of correspondence, reports, directories, lists, pamphlets, serial issues, and circulated material, relating to voluntary associations in the former Soviet Union, exchanges and person-to-person contacts, religion, peace movements, human rights, and promotion of democracy and citizenship.
Constantinescu (Grigore) papers: Romanian diplomat who served as the minister-counsellor to Great Britain, from 1946 to 1947, and served within the Comitetul National Roman (Romanian National Committee), the post-World War II Romanian democratic government-in-exile. The collection contains correspondence, diaries, minutes, radio broadcast transcripts, memoranda, and phonotapes, relating to communism in Romania, Romanian émigré politics, the Assembly of Captive European Nations, and Radio Free Europe.
Duchacek, Ivo D. papers: Editor in chief of Czechoslovak Service, Voice of America, New York, from 1949-1954, who broadcast weekly political commentaries, known as "Zapisnik," on Voice of America, under the name of Martin Cermak from 1949-1988. Collection consists of radio broadcast recordings and transcripts, writings, diaries, dispatches, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to Czechoslovakia during World War II, wartime diplomacy, Soviet annexation of Ruthenia in 1945, the communist coup of 1948, and American broadcasting to Czechoslovakia.
Durbrow (Elbridge) papers: US diplomat in the Soviet Union, 1946–48. Collection documents Elbridge's career in the U.S. Foreign Service and post-retirement relating to the spread of communism, U.S. foreign policy and world politics following World War II, represented in the form of correspondence, clippings, interview transcripts, speeches and writings, press summaries, other printed material, and memorabilia. Consisting largely of his writings, research materials, and correspondence, the collection reflects Durbrow's vast subject knowledge and expertise in foreign affairs.
Forum for U.S.-Soviet Dialogue records: Private US organization promoting educational exchange with Soviet citizens. Contains minutes, reports, conference proceedings, lists, brochures, newsletters, and photographs, relating to American-Soviet nongovernmental relations.
Institute for Soviet American Relations records: Private US organization promoting US/Soviet cultural relations. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, proposals, financial records, serial issues, and other printed matter relating to Soviet-American cultural relations, relations between the United States and the successor states to the Soviet Union, and environmental programs in those states.
Kaplan (Karel) collection: Czech historian. Contains copies of selected minutes, reports and memoranda of the Czechoslovak government and Czechoslovak communist party, relating to Czechoslovak foreign policy at the onset of the Cold War, the communist party purge trials in Czechoslovakia, reaction in Czechoslovakia to the Soviet de-Stalinization campaign, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Includes some published writings by K. Kaplan based on these documents.
Kataev (Vitalii Leonidovich) papers: Russian engineer, Soviet defense industry official, and adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev. Include reports, memoranda, correspondence, diaries, notes, meeting and conference materials, electronic documents, and sound recordings relating to Soviet military policy, the Soviet defense industry, Soviet nuclear weapons, and Soviet participation in arms limitation negotiations.
Kilian (Dorothy B.) papers: American Episcopalian Church lay activist and peace activist. Consists of correspondence, notes, newsletters, bulletins, pamphlets, serial issues, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to peace, disarmament, Soviet-American relations, person to person exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union, and religion in the Soviet Union.
Lessing (Erich) photographs: Austrian photographer. Contains images of post-World War II scenes in Austria reflecting Cold War themes, and scenes from the Hungarian Revolution.
Macy (Francis Underhill) papers: Environmentalist who organized exchange programs between the United States and the Soviet Union. Collection consists of correspondence, reports, meeting materials, notes, lists, memoranda, printed matter, and photographs, relating to nongovernmental exchange programs between Americans and citizens of the Soviet Union and its successor republics, and to promotion of Gestalt psychology, environmentalism, nuclear safety and alternative energy sources in the Soviet Union and its successor republics.
Von Wiegand (Karl H.) papers: Hearst newspaper foreign correspondent, 1917–61. Collection includes correspondence, dispatches, writings and manuscripts, diaries, photographs, clippings, and printed matter relating to European diplomacy and German politics between the world wars, the Sino-Japanese War, the European theater in World War II, the Cold War, post-war Middle East, the Italo-Ethiopian War, and U.S. foreign policy.
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