Original Name
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Institution Type
Archives
Country
United States
Address
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
USA
Email
archives@hoover.stanford.edu
Website
http://www-hoover.stanford.edu
Description
In 1919, the Hoover Library and Archives began collecting firsthand accounts of historical events and political transformations. Today the library contains more than 1.6 million volumes. The archives houses some 60 million documents and 100,000 political posters. These original sources fill twenty-five miles of shelving. Each year 3,500 researchers from all over the world visit the library and archives to use their materials on political, economic, and social change in modern times.
Documents of samizdat and dissident activists can be located in the East/Central European Collection. The collection is comprised by a number of sub-collections:
- "Vardy (Alexander) Papers" contains studies, newsletters, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Radio Liberty broadcasts to the Soviet Union, and to Soviet politics, culture and society (including samizdat).
- Czechoslovak and Polish Independent Publications Collections (1969-1990) accomodate serial issues, books, and pamphlets, published by underground and uncensored press in Czechoslovakia and Poland, relating to political and cultural conditions in the region.
- "Tymowski (Andrzej W.) [interviewer] Interview Transcripts": Interviews with activists of KOR, Solidarity, and other Polish dissident movements of the 1970s and 1980s, with activists in Czechoslovak and East German dissident movements of the same period, and with observers of these movements, relating to the history of the movements and participation patterns.
ISRA Affiliation Level
member
