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Collections are from US secretaries of state, individual activists and propagandists, and many émigré groups involved in the ideological struggle. Important subsets are collections relating to “citizen diplomacy,” in which individuals and organizations acted to defuse international tensions, particularly the danger of nuclear conflict; records of organizations on the front lines, such as the Free Europe Committee (later RFE/RL), involved in broadcasting and other activities aiming to penetrate the Iron Curtain; and papers relating to the role of the Third World in the confrontation.
Radio Free Europe broadcasts information despite Communists efforts to jam its signals
US radio broadcasting organization targeting the Soviet bloc
US radio broadcasting organization targeting the Soviet bloc
Conference on the impact of Western broadcasting during the Cold War
Recordings of radio broadcasts to Vietnam, 1963–2002
President of RFE/RL, 1975–78
Chief, Czechoslovak Desk, RFE
Wrote Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
Served in the Comitetul National Roman, the Romanian government in exile
Editor in chief of the Voice of America Czechoslovak service
Chairman of the Cold War Council
Hearst newspaper foreign correspondent, 1917–61
US diplomat in the Soviet Union, 1946–48
Chairman of the American Friends of the Captive Nations
Involved in nongovernmental exchange programs for US and Soviet citizens
Organized Friends Assisting Friends, a US/Russian cooperative program
Private US organization promoting contact with voluntary organizations abroad
Private US organization promoting a strong national security policy
Private US organization promoting US/Soviet cultural relations
Private US organization promoting educational exchanges with Soviet citizens
Voice of the Silenced Peoples in the Global Cold War (2021), Under the Radar (2022), Cold War Radio (2022)
Jamie Fly, president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) visited Hoover to discuss new initiatives to increase public awareness and stimulate research based on Hoover’s holdings of the RFE/RL Broadcast and Corporate Records and related papers.
The Blinken Open Society Archives of Central European University (Budapest), Hungary, has announced a fall workshop for scholars of Cold War of the Cold War and users of Radio Free Europe archival materials.
The document provides information about publicly available collections materials (sound recordings, archival papers, photographs, publications) created by broadcasters during the years 1947-1991.
The Cold War Communication Project (CWCP), an outgrowth of the Library of Congress Radio Preservation Task Force and the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, organized and sponsored two panels at the Woodrow Wilson Center and another at the Library of Congress November 2-3, 2017.
Georgetown University undergraduate Jackson Dalman describes working on the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty collection as a summer intern at Hoover Archives.
Hoover is partnering with the Library of Congress, the U.S. National Archives and the Wilson Center to create a network of core institutions about which a Cold War Communication Project will be based.
Research by Silas Palmer fellow Samuel Clowes Huneke charts the path that gay identity took in Germany, and Berlin specifically, from 1945 to the present. His project aims to expose the vital role of the gay community in shaping postwar German society and its continuing relevance to German culture and identity.
Timothy Nunan, a Freigeist Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and recent Hoover Library & Archives research fellow describes his work on the encounter of the Soviet Union and socialists with Sunni and Shi’a Islamist movements during the Cold War.
