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Summer Workshop Each summer the Hoover Soviet Archives Workshop brings together prominent scholars from around the world to study its unique archival holdings on world communism, most prominently its Soviet State and Party Archives. These scholars form a Hoover Soviet Archives Working Group that conducts research on the Soviet dictatorship and comparative dictatorships. Summer workshop participants: 2009 | 2008 | 2007. Participation is by invitation only. Directed by Hoover research fellow Paul R. Gregory, the workshop’s purpose is to gain a better understanding of how the Soviet economic, political, and social systems worked and to shed light on the fifteen countries that emerged from what was then the USSR. The workshop also focuses on comparisons between the USSR and other twentieth-century dictatorships, including Nazi Germany and China, in order to further our understanding of the effects of communism and totalitarianism on world politics. Workshop participants report that they collect at least ten times as many documents at Hoover as they do in Moscow for the same period of time. The collection contains some ten million pages of official documents, all of which were secret during the Soviet period. Some of the materials available at the Hoover Institution are no longer available in the Russian archives or are difficult to access. Participating scholars, who work in the holdings of the Hoover Archives, especially those of the "Archives of the Soviet Communist Party" and the Radio Free Europe Collection, present their research at a series of seminars held during the workshop. Topics of particular interest include:
In addition to the participants’ research and sharing of ideas, the workshops have yielded many publications that provide insight into the Soviet communist dictatorship. |
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