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Eesti NSV Riikliku Julgeoleku Komitee Records
This collection contains digitized copies of thousands of pages of Estonian KGB files relating to secret police and intelligence activities, dissident and anti-Soviet activities, and repatriation and nationalism issues in Estonia. The collection will grow over the next several years; the English-language overall guide will be updated as new materials arrive.
Marian Spychalski Papers Received by the Hoover Institution Archives
The private papers of Marian Spychalski, one of the “founding fathers” of communist Poland and a prominent Polish politician during the period from 1944 to 1968, are now available in the Hoover Institution Archives.
Lietuvos SSR Valstybės Saugumo Komitetas selected records, 1940–91
This collection consists of more than one thousand microfilm reels of Lithuanian KGB files related to intelligence and counterintelligence activities of the secret police against dissident and anti-Soviet movements and to problems with repatriation and nationalism in Lithuania. The collection will grow over the next several years; the English-language overall guide will be updated as the new materials arrive.
Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Imre Pozsgay Papers
The archival collection documents Pozsgay’s career and provides a wealth of information on political developments in Hungary dating from the 1956 revolution to the 1989 transition and beyond. Indeed, in January 1989, Pozsgay declared that the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a “people’s uprising against an oligarchic system of power which had humiliated the nation.”
Richard T. Davies Papers
Davies served as U.S. ambassador to Poland from 1973 to 1978. He joined the Foreign Service in 1947, and spent his first two years in Poland as a consular and political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. Other assignments included counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, director of the U.S. Information Agency for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs.