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	HU OSA 300-80-7
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 80:	Soviet Red Archives
Series 7:	USSR Biographical Files

Date(s) 1953-1994

Extent and medium 407 Archival boxes, 51 linear meters

Archival history

Scanned images of the documents on Anatolii Shcharanskii can be downloaded upon request. Please contact Archives@ceu.hu

Scope and content

The records contain clippings, news agency releases, excerpts from the Moscow Radio and TV monitoring materials, and copies of articles and books writtem by the people mentioned.

Persons included were prominent Soviet government and communist party officcials, famous dissidents, intellectuals, public figures.

Particularly extensive are files relating to Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonid Brezhnev, Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged alphabetically and thereunder chronologically.
  While prominent figures have separate files, documents regarding people of lesser note are joined together in collective files, either by a common name or by the first letters of their family names.

Language/scripts of material

English, French, German, Russian (Principally Russian)

Finding aids

• 407 containers
• Scanned documents on Anatolii Shcharanskii

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-80-9 Kraus Biographical Files, 1958-1994
• HU OSA 300-120-7 Biographical Files [Abel - Yeltsin], 1952-1994

Publication note

Portraits of prominent USSR personalities / Compiled by the Institute for the Study of the USSR; ed. by A.I. Lebed, H.E. Schultz. Metuchen, NJ : The Scarecrow Press, 1968-1971. - All together 16 issues.

"Biographical dictionary of 100 leading Soviet officials" (compiled by A.G. Rahr) was published by the Radio in 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989 (in 1984, also in microfiche format). In 1990, the biographical dictionary (under the same title) was published by Westview Press (in cooperation with RFE/RL).

A biographical dictionary of Soviet party regional leaders. Parts 1-2 / Compiled by Gavin Helt. Munich : Radio Liberty Research, RFE/RL, 1987. (Next edition came in 1988.)

A dictionary of prominent Soviet economists, sociologists, and demographers by institutional affiliation / Compiled by Sergei Voronitsyn. Munich : Radio Liberty, [1987].

All these publications are available at the Open Society Archives.

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Jennie Levine, Irida Tase and Olga Zaslavskaya, 1996 and 1997, described by Jennie Levine, 1997; revised by Natasha Zanegina, 2001; revised by Pavol Šalamon, 18 December 2002
Online version updated 6 January 2012