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Title: Susan Weissman Radio Broadcast Interviews
Date (inclusive): 1986-2000
Collection Number: 88042
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
11 oversize boxes
(4.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Sound recordings on compact sound cassettes relating to contemporary political, social and economic conditions throughout
the world, and especially in the Soviet Union and its successor states, from a weekly radio program broadcast on radio station
KPFK, Los Angeles.
Creator:
Weissman, Susan
Creator:
KPFK (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
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.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1988 with additional increments through the year 2000.
[Identification of item], Susan Weissman Radio Broadcast Interviews, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Susan (Suzi) Weissman, a Professor and Chair of Politics at Saint Mary's College of California, sits on the editorial boards
of Critique and Against the Current. She is the author of Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope (Verso, 2001); and edited
Victor Serge: Russia Twenty Years After (Humanities, 1996), and The Ideas of Victor Serge (Critique Books, 1997), as well
as many articles on the Soviet Union and Russia. Her research emphasis is on working class and left wing dissent. Weissman
has hosted drive-time broadcast public affairs programs on KPFK radio of Los Angeles for more than two decades. During the
years of turmoil and disintegration of the Soviet Union, she hosted many special programs and live broadcasts from participants.
She began as host of "Portraits of USSR" and "Read All About It" later titled "The New World Disorder" before it morphed into
"Beneath the Surface."
Source: Suzi Weissman (about) page,
http://suziweissman.com/?q=about accessed 11 August 2010
Scope and Content of Collection
Sound recordings on compact sound cassettes relating to contemporary political, social, and economic conditions throughout
the world, and especially in the Soviet Union and its successor states, from a weekly radio program broadcast on radio station
KPFK, Los Angeles. The collection also includes program description lists for the years 1995-2000, and an article, which may
be found in the last box.
The cassettes are organized chronologically. Sound recording date, title, and additional information in parentheses were selected
from the cassette labels created by Weissman or her staff.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Audiotapes
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991
Former Soviet republics
World politics -- 20th century