Soviet Union
Despite the Iron Curtain’s dampening effect on collecting and preserving materials from the USSR, the Hoover Archives holds a number of significant collections relating to Soviet dissidents and defectors, such as Andrei Siniavskii and Aleksandr Ginzburg and Yuri Yarim-Agaev; while the NTS Samizdat collection is one of the most extensive such collections in the world. A series of joint microfilming and digitization projects from the early 1990s until today have expanded Hoover’s holdings on the Soviet state and Communist Party apparatus and on the workings of the KGB in the USSR and its national republics to enable researchers to study both sides of the equation. In addition, a number of collections deal with US-Soviet relations, including citizen diplomacy and friendship organizations that tried to defuse international tensions during the Cold War. For the Cold War itself – as a battleground of ideologies – the RFE/RL Broadcast and Corporate Records are an unparalleled resource.
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Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State Microfilm
Copies of documents from three major Russian archives
NARODNO-TRUDOVOĬ SOIUZ SAMIZDAT COLLECTION
Russian émigré organization
Soviet and Post-Soviet Independent Press Collection
Serial issues, 1986–2006
Lietuvos SSR Valstybės Saugumo Komitetas Selected Records
Lithuanian KGB records
Eesti NSV Riikliku Julgeoleku Komitee Records
Estonian KGB records
Sak'art'velos SSR sakhelmtsipo ušišroebis komiteti Records
Georgian KGB records
Aleksandr Il'ich Ginzburg Papers
Soviet writer and dissident
RFE/RL Broadcast Records
US radio broadcasting organization
RFE/RL Corporate Records
US radio broadcasting organization
A. SINIAVSKIĬ PAPERS
Soviet literary critic and dissident
Boris Andreevich Grushin Papers
Soviet sociologist and pollster
VitaliĬ Leonidovich Kataev Papers
Soviet defense industry official
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