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Title: Ferdinand Peroutka papers
Date (inclusive): 1935-1978
Collection Number: 84052
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Czech and English
Physical Description:
16 manuscript boxes, 41 sound tape reels
(10.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, writings, and printed matter, relating to postwar conditions in Czechoslovakia, the internal administration
of Radio Free Europe, and Czechoslovak émigré politics.
Creator:
Peroutka, Ferdinand
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1984.
[Identification of item], Ferdinand Peroutka papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1895 February 6 | Born, Prague, Austro-Hungary |
| 1919-1923 | Editor, the daily Tribuna |
| 1924-1939 | Editor, the daily Lidové noviny |
| Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, the weekly Přítomnost (founded with support from President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and with Karel Čapek and other prominent writers as regular contributors) | |
| 1925 | Author, Boje o dnešek |
| 1933-1938 | Author, Budování státu, a multiple-volume monograph |
| 1939-1945 | Imprisoned, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps |
| 1945-1946 | Member, Czechoslovak National Assembly |
| 1945-1948 | Editor, the daily Svobodné noviny |
| 1946-1948 | Editor-in-Chief, the weekly Dnešek |
| 1947 | Author, Tak nebo tak |
| 1948 | Immigrated to London, Great Britain; published in émigré periodicals throughout his career ( Hlas domova, Americké listy, České slovo, and others) |
| Author, Oblak a valčík: kolektivní drama o dvanácti obrazech | |
| 1949 | Author, Byl Edvard Beneš vinen? |
| 1950 | Moved to New York, USA |
| Circa 1950-1957 | Member, Rada svobodného Československa (The Council of Free Czechoslovakia) |
| 1950-1964 | Editor-in-Chief, Radio Free Europe Czechoslovak Desk |
| 1951-1977 | Author, weekly broadcast addresses in Radio Free Europe (published as a three-volume monograph Mluví k vám Ferdinand Peroutka: rozhlasové komentáře rádia Svobodná Evropa, 2003-2006) |
| 1955 | Married Slávka Fenclová |
| 1959 | Author, Democratic Manifesto |
| 1976 | Author, Oblak a valčík: román |
| 1978 April 20 | Died, New York |
Scope and Content of Collection
Contains correspondence with prominent Czechoslovak cultural and political figures in Czechoslovakia and in exile, and with
American intellectual elites, as well as Peroutka's writings in exile. Also included are correspondence and internal documents
of Radio Free Europe and the Council of Free Czechoslovakia (Rada svobodného Československa). Transcripts of Peroutka's radio
addresses and sound recordings of Radio Free Europe programs form the final and most extensive part of the collection.
Ladislav Feierabend papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Michal Múdry papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Radio Free Europe broadcast records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Radio Free Europe corporate records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Jaroslav Stránský papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Josef Škvorecký papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Journalists
Radio broadcasting -- Europe, Eastern
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1945-1992
Czechoslovakia -- Emigration and immigration
Radio Free Europe