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HU OSA 300-55-10
Fonds 300: Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 55: Polish Underground Publications Unit
Series 10: Subject Files

Date(s) 1972-1990 (Predominantly 1984-1989)

Extent and medium 38 Archival boxes, 5 linear meters

Archival history

Previously there were two separate series of subject files within the 300-55 fond. However, after having retrived the original holdings list, OSA archivists discovered that the two actually formed a single unit and the original form was restored.

Scope and content

The series contains subject files created for research purposes by the RFE Polish Unit. It is arranged alphabetically and based mostly on xerox copies of clippings from Polish independent publications, but also includes RFE-produced materials (A-wires, B-wires, situation reports, background reports) and clippings from the foreign press, as well as photos and leaflets. The series documents a variety of aspects of political, social and cultural life in Poland as well as other countries.
The topics covered include: state-opposition relations, political activities of the Solidarity movement and independent political groups; political trials and cases of state repression (with individual files on the persecuted); the independent press and cultural life, the Catholic Church, the Chernobyl disaster; economic reform; human rights and the Helsinki Committee in Poland; the youth movement; the situation in different countries of the Communist bloc; the 1989 Round Table and elections in Poland.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

Language/scripts of material

English, French, German, Polish (Mostly in Polish, but frequently also English, German and French.)

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Revised by Piotr Wcislik, January 2011
Online version updated 19 April 2012
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