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	HU OSA 300-120
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL RI)
Subfonds 120:	Western Press Archives

Date(s) 1949-1994

Extent and medium 2200 Archival boxes, 275 linear meters

Name of creator(s)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: Library: Current Affairs Unit: Western Press Biographical Archive

Scope and content

The subfonds contains clippings mainly from Western press sources on some 200 000 personalities world-wide and subjects relating to the five East European target countries relating to Agriculture, Economic Conditions and Policy, Human Rights and Minorities, Intellectual life, Population, Prisons and Youth, etc.
The subject files (series 16 - 25) relating to the East European countries contain mostly newspaper clippings from western press sources, news agency releases but also brochures on Agriculture, Economic Conditions and Policy, Intellectual life, Population, Prisons and Youth.
Of particular interest are files on Human Rights, Concentration Camps, Foreign Relations, Politics and Government.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 300-120-1 Biographical Files [Aalto - Zywulska], 1951-1994
• HU OSA 300-120-2 Biographical Files [Abalkin - Zwingli]
• HU OSA 300-120-3 Subject Files
• HU OSA 300-120-4 Addition to the Subject Files
• HU OSA 300-120-5 Country Files
• HU OSA 300-120-6 Biographical Files [Adenauer - Zhivkov]
• HU OSA 300-120-7 Biographical Files [Abel - Yeltsin], 1952-1994
• HU OSA 300-120-9 Subject Files Relating to the USA
• HU OSA 300-120-10 Miscellaneous
• HU OSA 300-120-13 Subject Files Relating to Eastern Europe, 1964-1993
• HU OSA 300-120-26 Subject Files Relating to the Vatican

Language/scripts of material French, English, German, Russian

Related materials

• HU OSA 300-20 Bulgarian Unit, 1949-1994
• HU OSA 300-30 Czechoslovak Unit, 1951-1994
• HU OSA 300-40 Hungarian Unit, 1949-1995
• HU OSA 300-60 Romanian Unit, 1946-1995
• HU OSA 300-80 Soviet Red Archives, 1953-1994
• HU OSA 300-50 Polish Unit, 1951-1994
• HU OSA 300-10 Balkan Section: Albanian and Yugoslav Files, 1943-1994

Date(s) of descriptions

Prepared by Pavol Šalamon, 25 June 2003
Online version updated 18 December 2008