Russia & Eurasia

Correspondence between the Russian Royal Family and American Aid Worker Donated to the Hoover Institution Archives

Historians and archivists are accustomed to saving historical records—and the memories they document—from oblivion. Seldom, however, do they find themselves in the position of saving actual historical personalities from an almost certain death. One such historian—who was later the state archivist of Delaware—found himself in precisely such a position while serving as head of the American Red Cross mission in South Russia in 1920.

Stalin killed millions. A Hoover historian answers the question, was it genocide?

When it comes to use of the word genocide, public opinion has been kinder to Stalin than Hitler. But Norman M. Naimark, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University, 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 urges that the definition of genocide be widened.

Hoover Institution: New Biography on Stalin by Hoover Fellow Robert Service

Guns and Rubles: The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State, edited by Mark Harrison

In Guns and Rubles: The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State (Yale University Press, 2008) a distinguished team of economists and historians...

Hoover Institution News Release: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Open Exhibit Highlighting the Role of Soviet Dissidents and Their Supporters in the West

The Hoover Institution Library and Archives exhibition To Choose Freedom: Soviet Dissidents and Their Supporters offers a glimpse into the era of repression against Soviet human rights activists, focusing on the years that followed Khrushchev’s “thaw” in the late 1950s up through the era of perestroika and glasnost in the 1980s.

Digital Images of Hoover's China Posters Are Online; Russian and Soviet Posters to Follow

Several hundred images of posters from China are available in a searchable catalog of the Hoover Archives poster collection. About three thousand posters from Russia and the Soviet Union are being scanned and added to the database in July. More than one thousand poster images are already online.

Hoover Institution Hosts Symposium on Soviet Dissident Movement

The symposium “Building on Success: The Soviet Dissident Movement and American Foreign Policy during the 1980s” brought together former Soviet dissidents, scholars, and policy makers to discuss the methods employed by Soviet dissidents and their Western supporters that contributed to the end of the communist rule of the former USSR. The Hoover Institution hosted the event on April 14.