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	HU OSA 300-10
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL RI)
Subfonds 10:	Balkan Section: Albanian and Yugoslav Files

Date(s) 1943-1994

Extent and medium 712 Archival boxes, 89 linear meters

Name of creator(s)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: Information Resources Department: Balkan Section

Administrative/Biographical history

• HU OSA 300-10C Balkan Section

Scope and content

The subfonds contains clippings from Albanian, Yugoslav and foreign press, RFE/RL research papers, and excerpts from RFE/RL and Balkan countries radio broadcasting.

The issues most frequently monitored were those on politics, economics and social matters. Particularly extensive are files on the Albanian and Yugoslav economy and agriculture, communist parties and their relations with those of other countries, foreign relations and dissidents, and on Kosova.

Of special interest can be biographical files on Yugoslav government and communist party officials, prominent intellectuals and dissidents.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 300-10-1 Albanian Subject Files, 1962-1990
• HU OSA 300-10-2 Yugoslav Subject Files I, 1943-1994
• HU OSA 300-10-3 Yugoslav Subject Files II, 1951-1985
• HU OSA 300-10-4 Yugoslav Biographical Files I, 1948-1991
• HU OSA 300-10-5 Yugoslav Biographical Files II, 1964-1985

Language/scripts of material

Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, English, German, Macedonian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian

Finding aids

• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (The Environment Church and Religion The Prague Spring, 1968 Forced Labor Camps Under Communism)

Related units of description

• HU OSA 205 Records of the Open Media Research Institute (OMRI), 1952-1997 (Some of the materials created at the Research Institute (Munich) has been taken to OMRI (Prague) in order to support broadcasting. The collection was actively used by analysts and special staff members was working on archiving current materials.)

Date(s) of descriptions

Prepared by Bosko Spasojevic, 1997; described and revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, 16 May 2001
Online version updated 21 January 2010