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	HU OSA 300-30-7
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL RI)
Subfonds 30:	Czechoslovak Unit
Series 7:	Old Code Subject Files VI

Date(s) 1976-1991

Extent and medium 653 Archival boxes, 82 linear meters

Name of creator(s)

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

Scope and content

The series includes daily press releases, newspaper clippings from Czechoslovak, German, and British periodicals, transcripts of the monitoring of the Czechoslovak Radio and Television broadcasts, Background Reports Situation Reports and RFE Research Reports.

Includes extensive information related to agriculture, armed forces (Warsaw Pact, NATO, Soviet occupation in 1968), political parties (large section on the Communist Party, the files on the Central Committee are from1946), opposition, economy, culture, industry and state apparatus..

Of particular value ares some copies of newspapers from 1927, 1928, 1935, 1938 relating to the presidential elections, the transcript of the Slánsky show trial, files on the congresses and statutes of the Czechoslovak Communist Party as well as on February 1948.

The files regarding the criticism of and reaction to the regime, dissent and persecution as well as the files relating to 1968 events are useful cross-references to Collection of documents on 1968 and Collection of records relating to the Czechoslovak Opposition and Protest Movement

System of arrangement

• Arranged by numerical subject code and thereunder chronologically

Language/scripts of material

Czech, English, French, German, Slovak (principally Czech, Slovak, and English)

Finding aids

• 653 containers
• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (The Roma (Gypsies), The Prague Spring, 1968, Church and State)

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-30-2 Old Code Subject Files I, 1951-1961
• HU OSA 300-30-3 Old Code Subject Files II, 1962-1966
• HU OSA 300-30-4 Old Code Subject Files III, 1967-1971
• HU OSA 300-30-5 Old Code Subject Files IV, 1967-1971
• HU OSA 300-30-6 Old Code Subject Files V, 1946-1975
• HU OSA 300-30-8 Old Code Subject Card Files, 1951-1993
• HU OSA 205-4-40 Czech Subject Files, 1993-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-50 Slovak Subject Files, 1993-1997

Date(s) of descriptions

Arranged by Erika Molnar; described by Pavol Salamon, 18 May 2000; revised by Pavol Salamon, 11 April 2002
Online version updated 21 January 2010