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	HU OSA 300-8-47
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 8:	Publications Department
Series 47:	Situation Reports

Date(s) 1959-1989

Extent and medium

48 Archival boxes, 6 linear meters
3 SDLT I, 0.10 linear meters

Scope and content

Originally, SR were published daily; later their publication reverted to a twice weekly schedule in 1962, a weekly schedule in 1970, and a biweekly schedule in 1979. Except for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which have been combined in a Baltic Area SR (first introduced in December 1984), they were written separately for each of the eight countries to which RFE RL broadcast and covered the latest development in almost all areas of life in these respective states.

The Situation Reports (SR) are mostly descriptive but partly analytical, with the latter element becoming more pronounced over the years. In their last format, SR consisted of 3 to 10 items, with each item being 1 to 6 pages long. Although RFE/RL did not broadcast to Albania, SR were published irregularly on this country during the 1960s. Beginning in late 1984, Yugoslav Situation Reports were also introduced.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged chronologically.

Language/scripts of material English

Finding aids

• 48 containers | Scanned 3 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-20 Bulgarian Unit, 1949-1994
• HU OSA 300-30 Czechoslovak Unit, 1951-1994
• HU OSA 300-40 Hungarian Unit, 1949-1995
• HU OSA 300-60 Romanian Unit, 1946-1995
• HU OSA 300-80 Soviet Red Archives, 1953-1994
• HU OSA 300-81 Monitoring Unit, 1979-1995
• HU OSA 300-50 Polish Unit, 1951-1994
• HU OSA 300-10 Balkan Section: Albanian and Yugoslav Files, 1943-1994
• HU OSA 300-8-2 Indices to the Background and Situation Reports, Communist Area Analysis Research Reports and Press Survey, 1956-1989
• HU OSA 300-8-3 Background Reports, 1956-1989
• HU OSA 300-3 German Affairs, 1953-1973

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed by Tibor Szigeti, December 2002; described by Pavol Šalamon, 26 November 2002
Online version updated 19 April 2012