Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet state microfilm collection: State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat͡sii - GARF): Relates to political conditions in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. Filmed from finding aids and holdings dating from 1903 to 1991 of the Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat͡sii.
Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet state microfilm collection: Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii - RGANI): Relates to political conditions in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. Filmed from finding aids and holdings dating from 1903 to 1991 of the Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv noveisheĭ istorii.
Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet State microfilm collection: Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsialno-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI): Relates to political conditions in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. Filmed from finding aids and holdings dating from 1903 to 1991 of the Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv sot͡sial'no-politicheskoi istorii.
Committee on the Present Danger records: Private US organization promoting a strong national security policy. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, reports, studies, memoranda, press releases, financial records, clippings, and other printed matter relating to American politics and foreign policy, Soviet-American relations, and American and Soviet defenses and military policy.
Conference on Cold War Broadcasting Impact proceedings: Conference on the impact of Western broadcasting during the Cold War. Collection consists of 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.
DeKovner-Mayer (Barbara) papers: American writer; founder and president, Friends Assisting Friends. Author of Shattered Silence: Feelings from Former Soviets Struggling With Freedom at Home. Collection consists of correspondence, printed matter, and photographs relating to an American-Russian person-to-person correspondence and assistance program organized in the United States in 1990 as Friends Assisting Friends.
Deva (Xhafer) papers: Albanian politician during World War II and in political exile. Collection consists of materials related to Albanian anti-communism and Albanian political exiles during the Cold War.
Emmet (Christopher Temple) papers: Chairman of the American Friends of the Captive Nations. Collection contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, press releases, writings, recordings of radio broadcasts, and photographs, relating to anti-Nazi and anti-communist movements in the U.S., U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War, and U.S.-German relations.
Mayers (Henry) papers: American advertising executive; member, Committee for Freedom for All Peoples; chairman, Cold War Council. Collection consists of correspondence, speeches and writings, and printed matter, relating primarily to the Cold War Council.
Mickelson (Sig) papers: President of RFE/RL, 1975-1978. Collection contains minutes of meetings, reports, memoranda, financial records, speeches and writings, correspondence, notes, interviews, conference papers, press releases, printed matter, and phonotapes, relating to broadcasting activities of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and to financing of American presidential election campaigns and media coverage of presidential nominating conventions.
Peroutka (Ferdinand) papers: Chief, Czechoslovak Desk, RFE. Contains correspondence with prominent Czechoslovak cultural and political figures in Czechoslovakia and in exile, and with American intellectual elites, as well as Peroutka's writings in exile. Also included are correspondence and internal documents of Radio Free Europe and the Council of Free Czechoslovakia (Rada svobodného Československa). Transcripts of Peroutka's radio addresses and sound recordings of Radio Free Europe programs form the final and most extensive part of the collection.
Puddington (Arch) collection: Assistant director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, New York office from 1985-1993, and author of Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed matter, and sound recordings relating to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast records: American radio broadcasting organization operating Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Includes sound recordings of broadcasts, as well as documents used for creating broadcasts including scripts, correspondence, and memoranda relating to broadcasts by Radio Free Europe to audiences in Eastern Europe and to broadcasts by Radio Liberty to audiences in the Soviet Union.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty corporate records: American radio broadcasting organization operating Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) include correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial and legal records, technical specifications, opinion survey data, serial issues, other publications, and microfilm relating to operations of Radio Free Europe in broadcasting to audiences in Eastern Europe and of Radio Liberty in broadcasting to audiences in the Soviet Union, as well as non-broadcast operations of RFE/RL's predecessor, the Free Europe Committee, Inc.
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