Series Description364 archival containers
The records of the Research Institute are deposited under a 1994 agreement between Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Open Media Research Institute and the Open Society Institute.
The biographical files were created at the Samizdat Archives (SA) of the RFL/RL Research Institute in order to support the research work of its staff.
The selection of personalities included into these biographical files reflects SA interest in special topics such as criticism and opposition to the Soviet regime, dissidents and persecution of dissidents, prison conditions and labor camps, ethnic minorities, religious movements, anti-Western and anti-RL propaganda.
The biographical files include clippings from Russian and Western press, news agency releases, RFE/RL research papers, transcripts of radio broadcasts, and other information that aided SA staff in ascertaining the authenticity of Samizdat documents and restoring the picture of dissident movement in the USSR. Copies of Samizdat documents were also placed in the biographical files.
There are substantial biographical files on personalities such as Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Elena Bonner, Boris Yeltsin.
The series is organized based on the original order. The documents are arranged alphabetically by surname according to the Cyrillic alphabet and thereunder chronologically.
Series Description364 archival containers
The records of the Research Institute are deposited under a 1994 agreement between Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Open Media Research Institute and the Open Society Institute.
The biographical files were created at the Samizdat Archives (SA) of the RFL/RL Research Institute in order to support the research work of its staff.
The selection of personalities included into these biographical files reflects SA interest in special topics such as criticism and opposition to the Soviet regime, dissidents and persecution of dissidents, prison conditions and labor camps, ethnic minorities, religious movements, anti-Western and anti-RL propaganda.
The biographical files include clippings from Russian and Western press, news agency releases, RFE/RL research papers, transcripts of radio broadcasts, and other information that aided SA staff in ascertaining the authenticity of Samizdat documents and restoring the picture of dissident movement in the USSR. Copies of Samizdat documents were also placed in the biographical files.
There are substantial biographical files on personalities such as Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Elena Bonner, Boris Yeltsin.
The series is organized based on the original order. The documents are arranged alphabetically by surname according to the Cyrillic alphabet and thereunder chronologically.