Documenting Communism

Documenting Communism

by Charles G. PalmCharles Chadwyck-Healey and Stephen Kotkin
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/06/2024

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In late 1991, the Soviet Union was officially dissolved. Over the next 12 years, the Hoover Institution microfilmed and published the newly opened records of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet State. Among the 10 million pages were records of the central organs of the Communist Party; the NKVD, which regulated the ordinary lives of the Russian people; the GULAG, the secret police department that ran the forced labor camps; and the 1992 trial of the Communist Party.


Charles Palm, who led this mission, details how he and his colleagues secured a historic agreement with the Russian Federation, then launched and successfully carried out the joint project with the Russian State Archives and their partner, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd. The success of the project hinged on managing logistics among the three partners across three continents, facing down critics in Russia and elsewhere, and navigating the unstable political terrain that prevailed in Russia during the 1990s. The Hoover Institution's decisive action during a brief window of opportunity preserved on microfilm and provided worldwide access to the records of Soviet Communism and helped bring to account one of the most consequential ideologies of the 20th century.

ISBN:
9780817925567
9780817925567
Category:
European history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-06-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hoover Institution Press
Stephen Kotkin

Stephen Kotkin is the John P. Birkelund Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is also a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

He directs Princeton's Institute for International and Regional Studies and co-directs its Program in the History and Practice of Diplomacy.

His books include Uncivil Society, Armageddon Averted, and Magnetic Mountain. Kotkin was a Pultizer Prize finalist for Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928.

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