On September 25th, acclaimed Russian-American filmmaker Marianna Yarovskaya, Hoover fellow Paul Gregory, and  Hoover archivist Natalia Reshetova, screened a rough cut of their documentary film Women of the Gulag before a packed auditorium of participants in the international conference “Stalinism: Ideology and Practice,” organized by Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University in Perm, Russia.

On September 23, senior curator Maciej Siekierski introduced Helena Paderewska: Memoirs, 1910-20 at Julin, a country estate in eastern Poland. This manor home was meaningful to Paderewska: she purchased it in 1920 to establish a school for “country girls, victims of the war,” who would learn agriculture as well as French and English. The estate survived World War II and remains intact today. Several of the individuals attending the book launch were descendants of the graduates of Paderewska’s school.

As California copes with its four-year drought, a new Hoover Institution survey shows that the Golden State’s electorate is amenable—across ideological and regional divides--to continued water conservation and sharing groundwater resources with neighboring communities.

The Hoover Institution held its fall media roundtable on September 14 and 15, 2015 with a focus on the White House 2017 agenda.