Charles Palm, Deputy Director Emeritus of the Hoover Institution, recalls the ambitious effort he spearheaded to microfilm the newly opened Soviet archives after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The landmark project made available a "massive trove of Soviet government and Communist Party records" to researchers everywhere.
"Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives" by Charles G. Palm (Hoover Institution Press: June 2024). Foreword by Condoleezza Rice. Introduction by Stephen Kotkin. www.hoover.org/research/documenting-communism-hoover-project-microfilm-and-publish-soviet-archives
The Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State Microfilm Collection are housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University. Explore the finding aids for the collection: www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/archives-soviet-communist-party-and-soviet-state-microfilm-collection
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Speaker: Charles Palm, Deputy Director Emeritus and former Director of the Library & Archives, Hoover Institution
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