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The Diaries of Ludwik Kowalski, Former Stalinist, Donated to the Hoover Institution Archives

Monday, January 3, 2011

The Ludwik Kowalski Papers available in the Hoover Institution Archives include the original notebook diaries (in Polish), hundreds of letters, and personal documents and photographs.

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Piñera (right) is seen here with Raisian

Two of the many world leaders who visited Hoover in 2010

Saturday, September 25, 2010

The president of the Republic of Chile, Sebastián Piñera and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev visited in 2010.

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Archival History and Family Roots

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Hoover fellow Paul Gregory, who grew up on his father’s stories of his youth in Chita, Siberia, says, “I am using the Hoover Archives to follow the high-level decisions that set off the Great Terror and then largely unpublished family memoirs to tell the stories of the victims.”

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Kozelsk–a Glimpse into a Soviet Death Camp

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the Katyn Forest Massacre, the murder of thousands of Polish prisoners ordered by Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party Politburo in March 1940.

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The Cold War Pope

by Mary Eberstadtvia Policy Review
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Mary Eberstadt on The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II —
The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy by George Weigel.

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Katyn: Politics, massacre, morality

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The touring exhibition, which will be at the Hoover Institution from November 30, 2010, through January 29, 2011, and was produced by Poland's Council for the Protection of the Memory of Struggle and Martyrdom, chronicles the genocide of Poland's elites carried out by the Soviet security service and attempts by communist leaders to bury, for half a century, the truth about this crime against humanity.

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Patenaude discusses Trotsky on C-SPAN's Book TV

via C-Span2 Book TV
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Bertrand M. Patenaude, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and lecturer in history and international relations at Stanford University, discusses his book Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, which recounts the life of Red Army chief Leon Trotsky. Patenaude examines Trotsky's political career from his ascendancy as a young Marxist to Bolshevik leader to his feud with Joseph Stalin.

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Hoover Fellow Robert Conquest Receives Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

STANFORD—Robert Conquest, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a noted expert on the history of the former Soviet Union, has received the 2010 Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom.

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Hoover Archives acquires the papers of Klement Simoncic

Friday, November 5, 2010

The papers of Klement Simoncic comprise six manuscript boxes of correspondence, minutes of meetings, notes, photographs, reports, reviews, and other matter relating to Radio Free Europe (RFE) in the 1950s-70s and the creation and functions of the Society of International Broadcasters.

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Review of Norman Naimark’s recent book Stalin’s Genocides

Friday, November 5, 2010

Norman Naimark, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford, and senior fellow of Stanford's Institute for International Studies, looks at Stalin's mass killings and the tragic dimension of Soviet history in his recent book Stalin’s genocides.

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The Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict examines how knowledge of past military operations can influence contemporary public policy decisions concerning current conflicts.