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Cold War

  • Overview

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    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.

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    Jamming Signals

    Radio Free Europe broadcasts information despite Communists efforts to jam its signals

    RFE/RL Corporate Records

    US radio broadcasting organization targeting the Soviet bloc

    RFE/RL Broadcast Records

    US radio broadcasting organization targeting the Soviet bloc

    Conference On Cold War Broadcasting Impact Proceedings

    Conference on the impact of Western broadcasting during the Cold War

    BBC World Service Radio Broadcast Recordings

    Recordings of radio broadcasts to Vietnam, 1963–2002

    Sig Mickelson Papers

    President of RFE/RL, 1975–78

    Ferdinand Peroutka Papers

    Chief, Czechoslovak Desk, RFE

    Arch Puddington Collection

    Wrote Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty

    Grigore Constantinescu Papers

    Served in the Comitetul National Roman, the Romanian government in exile

    Ivo D. Duchacek Papers

    Editor in chief of the Voice of America Czechoslovak service

    Henry Mayers Papers

    Chairman of the Cold War Council

    Karl H. Von Wiegand Papers

    Hearst newspaper foreign correspondent, 1917–61

    Elbridge Durbrow Papers

    US diplomat in the Soviet Union, 1946–48

    Christopher Temple Emmet Papers

    Chairman of the American Friends of the Captive Nations

    Francis Underhill Macy Papers

    Involved in nongovernmental exchange programs for US and Soviet citizens

    Barbara Dekovner-mayer Papers

    Organized Friends Assisting Friends, a US/Russian cooperative program

    Center For Civil Society International Records

    Private US organization promoting contact with voluntary organizations abroad

    Committee On The Present Danger Records

    Private US organization promoting a strong national security policy

    Institute For Soviet American Relations Records

    Private US organization promoting US/Soviet cultural relations

    Forum For U.S.-Soviet Dialogue Records

    Private US organization promoting educational exchanges with Soviet citizens

    Cold War Archival Collections

    Cold War Library Materials

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    Hoover Research Fellow Maps the Paths of Cold War Czechoslovak Émigrés

    Hoover research fellow Martin Nekola describes his work on documenting the experience of Czechoslovak exiles during the Cold War.

    June 22, 2016
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    Hoover’s New Japanese Materials Explore The Cold War’s Intricate Landscape In Northeast Asia

    The Hoover Archives recently acquired Japanese archival materials relating to a Tokyo-based, allegedly private-funded think tank called the Continental Affairs Research Institute (Tairiku Mondai Kenkyujo). Hoover’s Continental Affairs Research Institute Collection includes correspondence between the Japanese government and the institute and analysis of and intelligence reports on Soviet Russia, China, and Mongolia from the early 1950s to the 1960s.  

    May 04, 2016
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    Silas Palmer Fellow Sarah Mellors Situates International Population Planning Within Cold War History

    Silas Palmer fellow Sarah Mellors, a doctoral student in history at the University of California, Irvine, explores population planning efforts in the 1960s in China and India through the lenses of international humanitarian aid and Cold War politics.

    April 28, 2016
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    Robert Service
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    Robert Service Calls Hoover Archives "Critical" to Understanding the Cold War

    On July 29 Robert Service, keynote speaker for the 2015 Hoover Institution Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes, delivered a lecture entitled “Looking at Both Sides: Why Did the Cold War End as It Did?” Service is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow of Saint Anthony’s College, Oxford.

    August 05, 2015
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    New Soviet Navy Collection Revives a Cold War Mystery

    The Hoover Institution Archives has acquired from a private source in Warsaw a collection of several hundred photographs of the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. The photographs, mostly black and white, cover all the Soviet fleets: Northern, Pacific, Baltic, Black Sea, and the Caspian Flotilla, with the earliest photo from 1955 and the final series from 1988.

    August 04, 2015
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    Dorothy Kilian in Moscow, 1986
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    Dorothy Kilian Papers Document Citizen Diplomacy in the Cold War

    This important addition to the archives’ collections on peace and citizen diplomacy reflects Dorothy Kilian’s work on US-Soviet relations and peacekeeping activities from 1977 to 1988. During this time, Ms Kilian was based in Pasadena, California, where she participated in peacekeeping efforts through her church and several local and national peace organizations. The scope of her work included youth peacekeeping education, women in peacekeeping, US-Soviet relations and citizen exchanges, Soviet religion and the relationship between faith and peace, SALT and nuclear arms proliferation, and national security, as well as human rights.

    April 21, 2015
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    Cover of a booklet produced by Radion Free Europe and showing large RFE letters in blue with a white radio tower over the left side of the R, and broadcasting to eastern europe
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    Conference on Impact of Cold War Broadcasting, October 2004

    International researchers and former officials met at the Hoover Institution to address the impact of Western broadcasting—especially Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)—during the cold war.

    October 13, 2004 Hoover Institution
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    Featured Find: Cold War Science Fiction

    Paul M.A. Linebarger had the international pedigree and double life of a John le Carré character. Born to Sun Yat-sen’s American adviser, Linebarger grew up in China, Germany, and the United States, spoke six languages, and received his doctorate at twenty-three. After teaching at Duke, he was hired by the US War Department to serve as the Far East Asian specialist of the Psychological Warfare branch.

    April 19, 2013
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    Cold War Broadcasting Impact

    Co-organizers: Hoover Institution and Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, with support from the Center for East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University, and the Open Society Archives, Central European University

    October 13, 2004
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