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	HU OSA 300-5-170
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL RI)
Subfonds 5:	Analytic Research Department
Series 170:	Subject Files of Dzintra Bungs

Date(s) 1958-1995

Extent and medium 163 Archival boxes, 20 linear meters

Scope and content

The files contain materials related to the Soviet and newly independent Baltic States but the majority of documents are dedicated to Latvia. The topics of the files are broad:
- dissident movement (biographic files of some dissidents, samizdat documents, dissident press as Auseklis, Batun, Neatkariba, foreign and Baltic press materials, documents concerning the activities of different organizations as Helsinki-86, Group to Defend the Believers’ Rights, immigration processes, Helsinki decisions materials);
- internal affairs of the Baltic Republics (States) including the activity of the Parliaments, Governments, economic development, environmental issues, cultural processes -ballet, music, theatre, movies, ethnography, religion, city of Riga etc. (most of these documents are miscellaneous and arranged chronologically); special attention is given to the press - mostly there are printed copies, but the original Baltic press is present as well;
- Soviet policy in the Baltic States including the official decisions, press materials about the Soviet leaders’ visits etc.; also there are daily reports on the Soviet issues that cover the broader territory than the Baltic Republics themselves;
- Baltic history concerning their incorporation into the USSR after the Soviet -German Treaty (articles in press and press releases about the demonstrations against this treaty);
- Independence movement - the proclamations and other documents of the Latvian People’s Front, Forum, press releases concerning the Baltic demonstrations, the electoral activities and their results;
- international affairs (the activity of the Baltic émigré organizations abroad as the World Federation of Free Latvians, international responses to the Communist rule in the Baltic states, materials of Conferences on Baltic Issues in Scandinavia in which Dzintra Bungs took part);
- Russian minority in the newly independent states (press).

In addition, the files contain 8 cassettes and a collection of books.

Accruals Not expected

Language/scripts of material

English, Estonian, French, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian

Finding aids

• 163 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-80-1 Old Code Subject Files, 1953-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-2 New Code Subject Files, 1954-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-3 All-Union General Files, 1956-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-5 Baltic Files, 1969-1994
• HU OSA 300-80-6 New Code Republics Files, 1989-1993
• HU OSA 300-81-4 Soviet Media Digest Files, 1985-1991
• HU OSA 300-81-5 The Former Soviet Union Countries Media Digest Files, 1992-1995
• HU OSA 300-81-6 Russian Media on East Europe Including Baltic States, 1992
• HU OSA 300-8-4 Baltic Notes, 1993-1994
• HU OSA 300-8-35 Report on the USSR: Baltic States, 1991
• HU OSA 300-8-51 This Week in the Baltic States
• HU OSA 205-4-209 The Former Soviet Union Media Digest Files from the RFE/RL Research Institute, 1994-1995
• HU OSA 205-4-210 The Former Soviet Union Press Survey, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 300-5-130 Subject Files of Riina Kionka, 1953-1993

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Valentyna Afanasyeva, revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, March 2005
Online version updated 21 January 2010