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	HU OSA 300-60-1
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 60:	Romanian Unit
Series 1:	Subject Files

Date(s) 1946-1992

Extent and medium 769 Archival boxes, 96 linear meters

Scope and content

In this series the materials include press clippings, news agency releases, RFE/RL research papers and background analyses, transcripts of radio broadcasts, émigré publications, letters, information items and, occasionally, photocopies of governmental documents from 1948.

The documents give a broad picture on Romanian political life, economic and social issues, culture and religion, security and military topics, minorities, and sports. The files relating to anti-Western and anti-RFE propaganda, ethnic minorities, prison conditions and forced labor camps are of outstanding interest. The files regarding the criticism of and resistance to the regime, dissidents and persecution of dissenters are useful cross-references to the Records Relating to the Romanian Opposition and Protest Movement.

A voluminous collection of speeches of communist leaders and files documenting the cult of personality of the Ceausescus are also important parts of this series.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged by numerical subject codes and thereunder chronologically

Conditions governing access Open for research

Language/scripts of material

English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, Russian

Finding aids

• 769 containers
• Related OSA Reference Information Paper available.

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-60-2 RFE Confidential Reports on Romania, 1971-1975
• HU OSA 300-60-3 Records Relating to Romanian Opposition and Protest Movement, 1977-1991

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Miklos Banyasz, Lajos Ludman, and Csaba Szilagyi; described by Csaba Szilagyi on October 15, 1998; revised by Csaba Szilagyi on April 10, 2002
Online version updated 6 January 2012