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HU OSA 300-20-1
Fonds 300: Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 20: Bulgarian Unit
Series 1: Subject Files

Date(s) 1949-1994 (predominant 1951-1994)

Extent and medium 226 Archival boxes, 28 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

Scope and content

The series contains news agency releases, excerpts of RFE Research Reports, transcripts of monitoring of the Bulgarian National Radio and Television, newspaper clippings and copies of articles from scientific publications.

The series includes extensive information related to agriculture, armed forces, various parties and organizations, economy, culture, industry and state and party apparatus in Bulgaria. The files on ethnic minorities in the country, dissidents, persecution and purges of the opposition, resistance to and criticism of the regime, and anti-Western propaganda are of particular interest.

The records contain some later copies of newspaper clippings dated 1920, 1942, 1945, 1948 related to the above mentioned subjects.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

Language/scripts of material

Bulgarian, English, French, German, Macedonian (Principally Bulgarian and English)

Finding aids

Date(s) of descriptions

Arranged by Rossitsa Guentcheva; processed by Lajos Ludman; revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, March 2002
Online version updated 6 January 2012
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