Eastern Europe And Beyond: Photographic Albums Revealed
Discover the rich tapestry of Eastern Europe and beyond in a new photographic album exhibition from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Materials begin with mid-19th century Russian legations in the German states. Others cover major events in the Eurasian heartland: the Russo-Japanese War, First World War, revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War, anti-Communist emigration, development of the USSR, Second World War, emergence of the dissident movement, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and development of newly independent states since 1991.
Anatol Shmelev is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Robert Conquest Curator for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia at Hoover’s Library & Archives, and the project archivist for its Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Collection. Shmelev’s expertise is in twentieth-c...
The Hoover Institution continues to publish Russian materials from its own collections as more material from Russian archives has become available in the last few years, Hoover has also been participating in cooperative projects with different Russian publishers: Izdatel'stvo ROSSPEN and Mezhdunarodnyi fond "Demokratiia", both based in Moscow.