Inventory of the Eastern European Oral History Project Interviews
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Title: Eastern European Oral History Project interviews
Date (inclusive): 1999-2001
Collection Number: 2000C8
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Sound recordings of interviews of Polish, Romanian, and other Eastern European political leaders, writers and others, and
Western experts on Eastern Europe, relating to political conditions in Poland, Romania and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Includes
selected transcripts of interviews and related written matter. Project sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution
and Peace. Interviews conducted by Laura Cosovanu, staff member of the Hoover Institution and others.
Creator:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Creator:
Cosovanu, Laura
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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.
Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000 and 2001.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Eastern European Oral History Project interviews, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution
Library & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
Sound recordings of interviews of Polish, Romanian, and other Eastern European political leaders, writers and others, and
Western experts on Eastern Europe, relating to political conditions in Poland, Romania and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Includes
selected transcripts of interviews and related written matter. Project sponsored by the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution
and Peace. Interviews conducted by Laura Cosovanu, staff member of the Hoover Institution and others.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Poland -- Politics and government
Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government
Romania -- Politics and government
box 1, folder 1
Selected partial transcripts of interviews, clippings on interviewees, and related notes
Sound recordings on sound compact cassettes
1999-2001
Physical Description: 24.0 sound_cassettes
box 1
Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan interview
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Anatoli Gremalschi interview
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box 1
Andrei Plesu interview
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Use copy reference number: 2000c8_a_0010586
box 1
Cristian Ionescu interview
16 May 2000
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Use copy reference number: 2000c8_a_0010590
Scope and Contents note
Director General, Department for Parliamentary Information
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Herbert Kaiser interview
31 March 2000
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Use copy reference number: 2000c8_a_0010583
Scope and Contents note
Deputy Chief of Mission, Bucharest, early 80s.
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Hoover Institution luncheon honoring Michael I, King of Romania
19 October 2000
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Scope and Contents note
Speakers:
George Shultz, Elena Danielson, Michael I.
Includes the soundtrack of a film depicting the return of Michael I to Romania.
box 1
Ion Iliescu interview
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Scope and Contents note
Former Romanian president
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Ion Ratiu interview
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Lucia Hossu Longin interview
19 May 2000
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Use copy reference number: 2000c8_a_0010589
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Michael I, King of Romania, interview at the Hoover Institution
20 October 2000
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Use copy reference number: 2000c8_a_0006448
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Miroslav Kusy interview
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Scope and Contents note
Former chief of staff for the office of the president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel. A political philosopher from Slovakia,
a prominent personality of the 1968 Prague Spring. He was expelled from public and academic life, persecuted and imprisoned.
As one of the original signatories of Charter 77, he became an active participant in the dissident movement, which culminated
in the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The arrest and trial of Kusy and Carnogursky in the summer and autumn of 1989 was one of
the last major events in the old regime. Since '89, he has been elected to the Federal Parliament, and served as Rector of
Comenius University in Bratislava. Board member of the Czech Helsinki Committee for Human Rights; heads the UNESCO Chair on
Culture of Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights.
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Nicolae Ionescu interview
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Deputy General Manager, Romanian official bulletin monitor official
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Nicolae Ratiu interview
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Petre Andrei interview
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Use copy reference number: 2000c8_a_0010588
Scope and Contents note
former politician before the communist takeover, former political prisoner in the communist prisons
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Professor Janos Kis interview
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Use copy reference number: 2000c8_a_0006449
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Radu Filipescu interview
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Leader of the Group for Social Dialogue, former political dissident
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Roman Petre interview
30 April 2000
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Silviu Brucan interview
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Thomas W. Simons interview
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Ticu Dumitrescu interview
15 March 2001
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Scope and Contents note
President, Association of Former Political Prisoners, Romania (1990-); president, International Union of Former Political
Prisoners from Eastern Europe (1991-1998).
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Zofia Fedorowicz-Grzelak interview
27 January 2000-28 January 2000
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Scope and Contents note
Interview concerns the conception of federal solution for Central Europe supported by Polish Labor Party during World War
II and in exile. It contains the reminiscence of Wacaw Iwanowski.
