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	HU OSA 300-5-150
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL RI)
Subfonds 5:	Analytic Research Department
Series 150:	Subject Files of Elizabeth Teague

Date(s) 1947-1993 (1980-1993)

Extent and medium 78 Archival boxes, 10 linear meters

Scope and content

The series contains Elizabeth Teague's correspondence with leading experts on the USSR and Russian dissidents living abroad, which is connected to scholarly publications, organisation of conferences and participation in seminars. It contains also Teague's hand-written notes from lectures on the Soviet Union, her drafts and own articles on a particular subject or reference request, copies of articles and books relating to the topics researched, news agency releases and newspaper clippings, photographs and cartoons. Reflecting Ms Teague's professional interests, the series comprises extensive information on the Communist Party in the USSR, discipline, property, reform, unofficial groups, unemployment, etc. Of particular value are her reflections on a given topic and their discussion in numerous letters with renown Kremlinologists.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged by a subject code according to the English alphabet. The majority of the files, due to their size, are arranged chronologically within the subject code.

Language/scripts of material English, Russian

Finding aids

• 78 containers

Archivist's Note

Elizabeth Teague (1945 - ) worked as analyst in the Radio Liberty Research Department since the early 1980s. In November 1990, she was appointed Acting Co-Director of this structure, which was renamed Analytic Research Department of RFE/RL Research Institute. Ms Teague participated in the production of the topical and timely analytical reports, Report on the USSR and, later, RFE/RL Research Report. Besides analysing current events, she also contributed to preparing book-length reference works and analytic studies relating to post - W.W.II Soviet society. Her interests include the place Soviet leaders, especially Andropov and Gorbachev, hold in policy and decision making, as well as labour problems and the formation of independent trade unions in the 1980s and 1990s.
Elizabeth Teague maintained close relations to the world leading Kremlinologists and to institutions concentrated on research on Soviet Union, such as the Harvard Russian Centre, the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Federal Institute for East European and Soviet Studies, Köln, etc. She has been invited to present papers at conferences and write articles for newspapers and journals. Besides the lively intellectual interaction with the international scholarly community, Ms Teague has provided media research information to newspaper, Radio-, and TV journalists covering the Soviet Union.

Date(s) of descriptions

Online version updated 21 January 2010