Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project To Microfilm And Publish The Soviet Archives

Author Charles Palm talks, in conversation with Stephen Kotkin, about his book “Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives.” The book documents the Hoover Institution’s 12 year project to microfilmed and published the then newly opened records of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet State in 1991. Charles Palm, who led this mission, details how he and his colleagues secured a historic agreement with the Russian Federation, and then launched and successfully carried out the joint project with the Russian State Archives and their partner, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd.
Thursday, November 7, 2024
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The Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State Microfilm Collection are housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University. Learn more about the collection: www.hoover.org...
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Speakers
Charles G. Palm is deputy director emeritus of the Hoover Institution, whose career at Hoover spanned more than thirty years from 1971 to his retirement in 2001. www.hoover.org...
Stephen Kotkin is Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Birkelund Professor in History and International Affairs emeritus at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs www.hoover.org...
Event Moderator
Eric Wakin is the deputy director of the Hoover Institution, a research fellow, and the Everett & Jane Hauck director of the Hoover Library & Archives. www.hoover.org...
Event MC
Lauren Covetta is the strategic communications manager for the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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