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	HU OSA 205-2-40
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 2:	Research and Analysis Department
Series 40:	Subject Files of Ustina Markus Relating to the Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Date(s) 1977-1995

Extent and medium 2 Archival boxes, 0.25 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

• HU OSA 205C Open Media Research Institute
• HU OSA 205-2C Research and Analysis Department

Scope and content

Dr. Ustina Markus received a BA in History from Loyola University (Chicago) in 1984, an MA in the Modern History of the Soviet Union and Middle East from the University of Illinois in 1986, and a Ph.D. in History from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1991. Her doctoral dissertation (Soviet Counterinsurgency Doctrine: A Case Study of the Guerilla Wars in Lithuania and Western Ukraine, 1944-1953) was accepted for publication by the Texas A&M University Press.

In 1993-1995 she worked as Research Analyst for Belorussian/Ukrainian Affairs at the Research Institute of RFE/RL in Munich. When OMRI was created, she became a Research Analyst there.
At that time, the field of her responsibility was Belarus and Ukraine. She published several articles in Transition, for example, Belarus: Still Coming to Terms with Independence (vol.1, no.2, 15 February 1995), Ukraine: Stability Amid Political Turnover (vol.1, no.2, 15 February 1995), and others.
Her collection consists of three series that reflect her research areas over the years. Thus this particular series provides information on different aspects of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in the period from 1977 to 1991. She collected and filed materials on economy, politics, social issues, and culture. Of particular interest can be files on dissidents, relations with Poland, and files on different cities of the country.
Most of the files contain new agency releases, press clippings, analytical materials, including some of the RFE/RL staff members.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged by subjects according to the Latin alphabet

Language/scripts of material

Belarusian, English, Russian, Ukrainian (Mostly Russian)

Finding aids

• 2 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-80-1 Old Code Subject Files, 1953-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-2 New Code Subject Files, 1954-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-3 All-Union General Files, 1956-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-4 Commonwealth of Independent States Files, 1990-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-6 New Code Republics Files, 1989-1993
• HU OSA 300-80-7 USSR Biographical Files, 1953-1994
• HU OSA 300-81-1 Subject Files Related to the USSR and the Russian Federation, 1982-1994
• HU OSA 300-81-4 Soviet Media Digest Files, 1985-1991
• HU OSA 205-3-2 Transitions, 1997-1998
• HU OSA 205-3-1 Transition, 1994-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-4 RFE/RL Research Reports, 1992-1993
• HU OSA 205-3-7 OMRI Daily Digest in English, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-10 OMRI Analytical Brief, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-2-80 Draft Research Papers (electronic)

Date(s) of descriptions

Described by Natasha Zanegina, processed by Olga Zaslavskaya; revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, 1October 2003
Online version updated 6 January 2012