Documenting Communism - Charles G. Palm

Documenting Communism

The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives
Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2024
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-8179-2555-0 (ISBN)
28,60 inkl. MwSt
In late 1991, the Soviet Union was officially dissolved. Over the next 12 years, the Hoover Institution microfilmed and published the newly opened records of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet State. Among the 10 million pages were records of the central organs of the Communist Party; the NKVD, which regulated the ordinary lives of the Russian people; the GULAG, the secret police department that ran the forced labor camps; and the 1992 trial of the Communist Party.

Charles Palm, who led this mission, details how he and his colleagues secured a historic agreement with the Russian Federation, then launched and successfully carried out the joint project with the Russian State Archives and their partner, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd. The success of the project hinged on managing logistics among the three partners across three continents, facing down critics in Russia and elsewhere, and navigating the unstable political terrain that prevailed in Russia during the 1990s. The Hoover Institution’s decisive action during a brief window of opportunity preserved on microfilm and provided worldwide access to the records of Soviet Communism and helped bring to account one of the most consequential ideologies of the 20th century.

Stephen Kotkin (introduction) is the Kleinheinz Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. His books include Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 and Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. Charles Chadwyck-Healey (appendix) is founder of the Chadwyck-Healey Group of academic publishing companies, now part of ProQuest. Charles G. Palm is the deputy director emeritus of the Hoover Institution, where he was an archivist and librarian for thirty-one years, the last eighteen directing the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. His published works include Milton Friedman on Freedom and Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives. Condoleezza Rice (foreword) was the sixty-sixth US secretary of state under George W. Bush. She is currently the director of the Hoover Institution.

Foreword by Condoleezza Rice
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Stephen Kotkin
Chapter 1: A Window on History Opens
Chapter 2: Building the Project
Chapter 3: The Window Closes and Opens Again
Chapter 4: The Critics
Chapter 5: Mission Accomplished
Appendix A: Red Archives by Charles Chadwyck-Healey
Appendix B: Project Participants, 1991–2002
Appendix C: Checklist of Microfilmed Records
Notes
About the Author
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort Condoleezza Rice
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Stanford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-8179-2555-4 / 0817925554
ISBN-13 978-0-8179-2555-0 / 9780817925550
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