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	HU OSA 300-85-12
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 85:	Samizdat Archives
Series 12:	Subject Files

Date(s) 1968-1992

Extent and medium 318 Archival boxes, 40 linear meters

Scope and content

Staff of the Samizdat Archives (SA) created the subject files to support their research efforts. The files are based on the subject list developed specifically for this project.

The subject list covers topic relating to Samizdat issues and contains 38 general subject categories (with sub-categories and sub-sub-categories) in Russian language.

VLAST’ I GOSUDARSTVO
VOINY
GEOGRAFIIA
GRUPPY
DELEGATSII
DIPLOMATY
ZAKONODATEL’STVO
IDEOLOGIIA
INAKOMYSLIE
INOSTRANTSY V SSSR
ISTORIIA
KARATEL’NYE ORGANY
KATASTROFY
KUL’TURA
MEZHDUNARODNAIA DEIATEL’NOST’
MESTA LISHENIIA SVOBODY
NAUKA
NATSIONAL’NOSTI
OBRAZOVANIE
PASPORTA I VIZY
PERESTROIKA
PRAVA CHELOVEKA
PREMII
PRESTUPLENIIA
PROTESTY
PSIKHIATRIIA I PSIKHIATRICHESKIE BOL’NITSY
RELIGIIA
SAMIZDAT
SVIAZI (POCHTA / TELEFON)
SOVETSKIE ZA RUBEZHOM
SOTSIAL’NYE GRUPPY I SOTSIAL’NYE IAVLENIIA
SPORT
SREDSTVA MASSOVOI INFORMATSII
TERROR
FILOSOFIIA I FILOSOFY
EKOLOGIIA
EKONOMIKA
EMIGRATSIIA

The subject files include clippings from Russian and Western press, news agency releases, RFE/RL research papers, transcripts of radio broadcasts, and other information that aided SA staff in ascertaining the authenticity of Samizdat documents, restoring the picture of dissident movement in the USSR, understanding the context in which it was taking place. Copies of Samizdat documents were also placed in the subject files , making it a natural “index" to the published Samizdat.

The files give extensive information to criticism and opposition to the Soviet regime, dissidents and persecution of dissidents, prison conditions and labor camps, ethnic minorities, religious movements, anti-Western and anti-RL propaganda.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged alphabetically.

Language/scripts of material

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

Finding aids

• 317 containers | In alphabetical order 1 container

Archivist's Note

Sub-headings and sub-sub-heading are not in a strict alphabetical order

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Jennie Levine, Irida Tase and Ol'ga Zaslavskaya, 1997; described by Jennie Levine, 1997; revised by Natasha Zanegina, 2001.
Online version updated 6 January 2012