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	HU OSA 300-60-5
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 60:	Romanian Unit
Series 5:	Romanian Press Survey

Date(s) 1971-1994 (1971, 1974-1975, 1981-1994)

Extent and medium 41 Archival boxes, 5 linear meters

Scope and content

The materials in this series are newspaper clippings, press summaries and transcripts of articles selected from both the central (Bucharest) and regional press.

The Romanian press had long been considered the main source of information for the Research Unit. Accordingly, the Romanian Press Survey, averaging fifteen pages each, was usually prepared two to five times a week. (For example, in 1966, the Research Analysts monitored approximately 50 Romanian periodicals on a regular basis.)

The Press Surveys became especially interesting when the fall of the communist regime allowed new publications to mushroom on the media market: beginning with 1990, dailies and weeklies of all kinds of political affiliations, economic magazines, historical reviews, and tabloids have also been monitored.

System of arrangement

• Arranged chronologically; between 1981-1992 arranged thereunder also by subject

Language/scripts of material Romanian

Finding aids

• 41 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-60-6 Romanian Press Survey in English, 1957-1975
• HU OSA 300-60-7 Foreign Press Survey on Romania, 1974-1989

Date(s) of descriptions

Arranged by Viktor Labos; described by Csaba Szilagyi on October 19, 1998; revised by Csaba Szilagyi on April 10, 2002.
Online version updated 6 January 2012