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	HU OSA 300-50-1
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 50:	Polish Unit
Series 1:	Old Code Subject Files

Date(s) 1951-1993

Extent and medium 2225 Archival boxes, 278 linear meters

Scope and content

The series includes press clippings, news agency releases, RFE/RL research papers and background analyses, transcripts of Polish, Soviet, Albanian and other radio broadcasts, letters, samizdat and émigré publications, and Information Items.
The records offer a broad insight into the postwar history of Poland. They focus on issues of topical interest: domestic and foreign politics, security, opposition to the regime and exile, economy and trade, culture, the environment, and the Churches. The most extensive files are on the Ccommunist Party, foreign relations and religion.
There is an extremely rich coverage of the Solidarity movement as well, including both the official press materials and samizdat documents of the opposition.

System of arrangement

• Arranged by numerical subject code and thereunder chronologically.

Language/scripts of material

English, French, German, Polish, Russian (Principally Polish)

Finding aids

• 2225 containers
• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available. (The Environment, The Roma (Gypsies), The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Church and Religion, Prague Spring 1968, Forced Labor Camps under Communism)

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Miklós Bányász and Miklós Tamási; described by Miklós Tamási, 16 november 2001; revised by Miklós Tamási, 30 September 2002.
Online version updated 6 January 2012