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	HU OSA 314-0-2
Fonds 314:	Interviews by Miklós Kun Relating to the Soviet Union
Series 2:	Oral history interviews with communist party officials, their relatives and dissidents

Date(s) 1996-1997

Extent and medium

12 Audio cassette, 0.18 linear meters
36 VHS, 1 linear meters

Scope and content

Approximately 50 hours of oral history interviews with 51 former Soviet dissidents and Communist Party functionaries, or with their relatives. The interviews were conducted in Russia by a prominent Hungarian historian and "sovietologist", professor Miklos Kun.
Some notable individuals include: Stepan Chervonenko, Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia in 1968; Alexandr Selepin and Vladimir Semichastnii, former heads of the KGB; Ekaterina Tukhachevskaia, the youngest sister of the Marshall; Iurii Zhdanov, son of Andrei Zhdanov, the Soviet “pope of culture" and Vladimir Bukovskii, the world-famous opponent of the Soviet system

Accruals Not expected

Conditions governing access

Some interviews are restricted till July 2003. Restrictions are marked in the container list.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyrights are held by the interviewer, Mr. Miklos Kun.

Language/scripts of material Russian

Finding aids

• Container list [23-3-3-8] {"re-labeling needed for 12 audio cassettes" - is it still the case? lift restrictions; Csaba}

Existence and location of copies

• Masters are held in the private collection of Mr. Miklos Kun.

Date(s) of descriptions

Described by Zsuzsanna Zadori 1998
Online version updated 18 December 2008