Hoover Archives has acquired internally distributed confidential lists of Latvian, German and Russian books to be confiscated in Soviet-occupied Latvia per orders of GLAVLIT, the Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs.  With printed notes on front wrappers translating to “For official use” and “Distributed by list.”  Among the titles to be removed are numerous publications of the Latvian avant-garde, but also books by Russian émigrés published in Riga.

John B. Taylor, the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University, won the 2015 Truman Award for Economic Policy.