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Title: Susan Weissman Radio Broadcast Interviews
Dates: 1986-2000
Collection Number: 88042
Creator: Weissman, Susan, interviewer.
Collection Size:
11 cassette boxes
(4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
The collection is open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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[Identification of item], Susan Weissman Radio Broadcast Interviews, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1988 with additional increments through the year 2000.
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.
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
World politics--20th century.
Former Soviet republics.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1985-1991.
Russia--(Federation)--Politics and government--1991-
Phonotapes.
KPFK (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif)