We've Got The County Covered

"Documenting Communism:" The Hoover Project to Microfilm and Publish the Soviet Archives (Part 2)

Used with permission from the Hoover Digest

Charles G. Palm

About half way through the project, we lost him. In December 1995, the parliamentary election threatened to end the Yeltsin administration. Government opposition parties won 53% of the vote, while Yeltsin's supporters won only 38%. In January, Pikhoia, speaking on behalf of his Rosarkhiv collegium, notified me that our agreement was terminated. The Hoover project exposed a conflict in Russian society. On the one hand, many Russians were open to western ideas and collaboration with the West. At the same time, other Russians held xenoph...

 
 
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