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	HU OSA 205-3-1
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 3:	Publications Department
Series 1:	Transition

Date(s) 1994-1997

Extent and medium 1 Archival boxes, 0.13 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

• HU OSA 205-3C Publications Department

Scope and content

The series contains issues of OMRI's biweekly printed magazine Transition: Events and Issues in the Former Soviet Union and East-Central and Southeastern Europe. The publication was launched in 1994 by the Open Media Research Institute as continuation of the RFE/RL Research Report. The first pilot issue under the title Society in Transition: News and Analysis of Developments in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern and Southeastern Europe was published in November 1994.

Besides the articles by OMRI analysts, the magazines contain short items on developments throughouot the region; excerpts from editorials, speeches, and important documents; essay book and films reviews; articles on cultural affairs; an opinion pieces by and interviews with leading government officails, political figures, opinion makers, etc.
Transition also carried periodic special issues on important topics such as the media, foreign affairs, and the social costs of transition.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged chronologically

Language/scripts of material English

Finding aids

• 1 container

Existence and location of originals

• Transitions Online, Chlumova 22, 130 000 Prague 3, Czech Republic http://www.tol.cz

Related materials

• OSA Library, http://www.osa.ceu.hu/library/index.htm

Related units of description

• HU OSA 205-3-2 Transitions, 1997-1998
• HU OSA 205-3-7 OMRI Daily Digest in English, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-9 OMRI Economic Digest, 1995-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-10 OMRI Analytical Brief, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-11 Pursuing Balkan Peace, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-12 OMRI Russian Regional Report, 1996-1997

Date(s) of descriptions

Described by Olga Zaslavskaya, 25 August 2003
Online version updated 19 April 2012