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Title: Ferdinand Peroutka papers, 1935-1978
Dates: 1935-1978
Collection Number: 84052
Creator: Peroutka, Ferdinand
Collection Size:
16 manuscript boxes and 41 audio reels
(15 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: 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.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Czech
English
Slovak
German
Collection is open for research.
Use copies of all sound recordings in this collection are available for immediate access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Ferdinand Peroutka papers, 1935-1978, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1984.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Ladislav Feierabend papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Michal Múdry papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Radio Free Europe broadcast records, Hoover Institution Archives
Radio Free Europe corporate records, Hoover Institution Archives
Jaroslav Stránský papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Josef Škvorecký papers, Hoover Institution Archives
| 6 February 1895 | Born, Prague, Austro-Hungary |
| 1919-1923 | Editor, the daily Tribuna |
| 1924-1939 | 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) |
| Editor, the daily Lidové noviny | |
| 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 | Author, Oblak a valčík: kolektivní drama o dvanácti obrazech |
| Emigrated to London, Great Britain; published in émigré periodicals throughout his career ( Hlas domova, Americké listy, České slovo, and others) | |
| 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 |
| 20 April 1978 | 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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Radio Free Europe.
Czechoslovakia--Emigration and immigration.
Czechoslovakia--History--1945-1992.
Radio broadcasting--Europe, Eastern.
Journalists.
Phonotapes.