Soviet Union

Overview

Despite the Iron Curtain’s dampening effect on collecting and preserving materials from the USSR, the Hoover Archives holds a number of significant collections relating to Soviet dissidents and defectors, such as Andrei Siniavskii and Aleksandr Ginzburg and Yuri Yarim-Agaev; while the NTS Samizdat collection is one of the most extensive such collections in the world. A series of joint microfilming and digitization projects from the early 1990s until today have expanded Hoover’s holdings on the Soviet state and Communist Party apparatus and on the workings of the KGB in the USSR and its national republics to enable researchers to study both sides of the equation. In addition, a number of collections deal with US-Soviet relations, including citizen diplomacy and friendship organizations that tried to defuse international tensions during the Cold War. For the Cold War itself – as a battleground of ideologies – the RFE/RL Broadcast and Corporate Records are an unparalleled resource.

Archives Of The Soviet Communist Party And Soviet State Microfilm

Copies of documents from three major Russian archives

Narodno-trudovoĭ Soiuz Samizdat Collection

Russian émigré organization

Aleksandr Il'ich Ginzburg Papers

Soviet writer and dissident

Rfe/rl Broadcast Records

US radio broadcasting organization

Rfe/rl Corporate Records

US radio broadcasting organization

A. Siniavskiĭ Papers

Soviet literary critic and dissident

Boris Andreevich Grushin Papers

Soviet sociologist and pollster

Vitaliĭ Leonidovich Kataev Papers

Soviet defense industry official

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Hoover Acquires Substantial Collection of Papers of the Late Yugoslav Dissident Mihajlo Mihajlov

Recently the Hoover Institution Library and Archives acquired more than seventy boxes of archival materials from the estate of the late Mihajlo Mihajlov (1934–2010), a Serbian writer, political activist, and dissident who was imprisoned for his critiques of Tito’s Yugoslavia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This collection, which augments an earlier donation made during Mihajlov’s lifetime, contains correspondence, publications, and audiovisual media that document the breadth of Mihajlov’s public career.

August 03, 2011
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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.

July 08, 2008
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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.

May 13, 2008
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Enhanced Guides to Soviet Archives Microfilm Collection

An enhanced set of guides to the Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State microfilm collection is online.

May 04, 2009
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