Overview of the Jirí Stárek collection

Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff

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Title: Jirí Stárek collection

Date (inclusive): 1956-1983

Collection Number: 83073

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: Mainly in Czech

Physical Description: 64 manuscript boxes (25.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Proclamations, statements, speeches, letters, and legal documents, including clandestine dissident literature, relating to political and social conditions in Czechoslovakia, political trials and the status of civil liberties, the Czech dissident movement, and international communism.

source: Stárek, Jiří

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

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1983.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jirí Stárek collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and Content of Collection

Proclamations, statements, speeches, letters, and legal documents, including clandestine dissident literature, relating to political and social conditions in Czechoslovakia, political trials and the status of civil liberties, the Czech dissident movement, and international communism.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Dissenters -- Czechoslovakia

Political crimes and offenses -- Czechoslovakia

Civil rights -- Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1968-1989

Czechoslovakia -- Social conditions

Stárek, Jiří