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HU OSA 300-80-7 USSR Biographical Files
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Folders / Items in this series
Identity Statement
Title
USSR Biographical Files
Identity Statement
Date(s)
1953 - 1994
Identity Statement
Description Level
Series
Identity Statement
Extent and medium (estimated)

407 archival containers

Identity Statement
Extent and medium (processed)
407 Archival boxes, 50.88 linear meters
Context
Name of creator(s)
Soviet Red Archives
Context
Archival history

Scanned images of the documents on Anatolii Shcharanskii can be downloaded upon request. Please contact Archives@ceu.hu

Content and structure
Scope and content (abstract)

The records contain clippings, news agency releases, excerpts from the Moscow Radio and TV monitoring materials, and copies of articles and books written by the people mentioned.

Persons included were prominent Soviet government and communist party officials, famous dissidents, intellectuals, public figures.

Particularly extensive are files relating to Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Brezhnev, Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Content and structure
Accruals
Not Expected
Content and structure
System of arrangement

Arranged alphabetically and thereunder chronologically.

While prominent figures have separate files, documents regarding people of lesser note are joined together in collective files, either by a common name or by the first letters of their family names.

Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing access
Not Restricted
Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing reproduction
Third party rights are to be cleared.
Allied Materials
Publication note

"Portraits of prominent USSR personalities" / Compiled by the Institute for the Study of the USSR; ed. by A.I. Lebed, H.E. Schultz. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1968-1971. - Altogether 16 issues.

"Biographical dictionary of 100 leading Soviet officials" / compiled by A.G. Rahr was published by the Radio in 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989 (in 1984, also in microfiche format). In 1990, the biographical dictionary (under the same title) was published by Westview Press (in cooperation with RFE/RL).

A biographical dictionary of Soviet party regional leaders. Parts 1-2 / Compiled by Gavin Helt. Munich: Radio Liberty Research, RFE/RL, 1987. (Next edition came in 1988.)

A dictionary of prominent Soviet economists, sociologists, and demographers by institutional affiliation / Compiled by Sergei Voronitsyn. Munich: Radio Liberty, 1987.

All these publications are available at the Open Society Archives.

Description Control
Archivist's note
Revised by Anastasia Felcher, 2020, 2022.
HU OSA 300-80-7 USSR Biographical Files
BookIconSeries Description
Context
Hierarchy
Statistics
Folders / Items
Identity Statement
Title
USSR Biographical Files
Identity Statement
Date(s)
1953 - 1994
Identity Statement
Description Level
Series
Identity Statement
Extent and medium (estimated)

407 archival containers

Identity Statement
Extent and medium (processed)
407 Archival boxes, 50.88 linear meters
Context
Name of creator(s)
Soviet Red Archives
Context
Archival history

Scanned images of the documents on Anatolii Shcharanskii can be downloaded upon request. Please contact Archives@ceu.hu

Content and structure
Scope and content (abstract)

The records contain clippings, news agency releases, excerpts from the Moscow Radio and TV monitoring materials, and copies of articles and books written by the people mentioned.

Persons included were prominent Soviet government and communist party officials, famous dissidents, intellectuals, public figures.

Particularly extensive are files relating to Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Brezhnev, Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Content and structure
Accruals
Not Expected
Content and structure
System of arrangement

Arranged alphabetically and thereunder chronologically.

While prominent figures have separate files, documents regarding people of lesser note are joined together in collective files, either by a common name or by the first letters of their family names.

Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing access
Not Restricted
Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing reproduction
Third party rights are to be cleared.
Allied Materials
Publication note

"Portraits of prominent USSR personalities" / Compiled by the Institute for the Study of the USSR; ed. by A.I. Lebed, H.E. Schultz. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1968-1971. - Altogether 16 issues.

"Biographical dictionary of 100 leading Soviet officials" / compiled by A.G. Rahr was published by the Radio in 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989 (in 1984, also in microfiche format). In 1990, the biographical dictionary (under the same title) was published by Westview Press (in cooperation with RFE/RL).

A biographical dictionary of Soviet party regional leaders. Parts 1-2 / Compiled by Gavin Helt. Munich: Radio Liberty Research, RFE/RL, 1987. (Next edition came in 1988.)

A dictionary of prominent Soviet economists, sociologists, and demographers by institutional affiliation / Compiled by Sergei Voronitsyn. Munich: Radio Liberty, 1987.

All these publications are available at the Open Society Archives.

Description Control
Archivist's note
Revised by Anastasia Felcher, 2020, 2022.