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	HU OSA 300-20
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL RI)
Subfonds 20:	Bulgarian Unit

Date(s) 1949-1994

Extent and medium 416 Archival boxes, 52 linear meters

Name of creator(s)

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: Information Resources Department: East European Archives: Bulgarian Unit

Administrative/Biographical history

• HU OSA 300-20C Bulgarian Unit

Scope and content

The records contain news agency releases and excerpts from foreign and Bulgarian press, newspaper clippings, transcripts of the Bulgarian National Radio, abstracts of media reports about Bulgaria, excerpts of RFE Research Reports, copies of articles from scientific publications, transcripts of telephone interviews by a journalist at the Bulgarian Section of RFE.

The records of the Bulgarian Unit provide resources for the study of history of Bulgarian political and cultural life, economics, religions, media and social issues during the Cold War period. Records regarding the problems of ethnic minorities, exile, foreign relations and the communist party of Bulgaria are of particular interest.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• HU OSA 300-20-1 Subject Files, 1949-1994
• HU OSA 300-20-2 Subject Card Files, 1951-1992
• HU OSA 300-20-3 Biographical Files, 1969-1971
• HU OSA 300-20-4 Monitoring, 1982-1994
• HU OSA 300-20-5 Foreign and Bulgarian Monitoring, 1988-1990
• HU OSA 300-20-6 Press Survey in English, 1957-1971
• HU OSA 300-20-7 Press Survey, 1989-1993
• HU OSA 300-20-8 Telephone Interviews, 1989-1990

Language/scripts of material

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

Finding aids

• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available.

Related units of description

• HU OSA 205 Records of the Open Media Research Institute (OMRI), 1952-1997 (Contains part of the materials)

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Rossitsa Guentcheva, Lajos Ludman, Tibor Szigeti, Anton Nakov, revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, September 2000
Online version updated 21 January 2010