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Title: Joan Beecher Eichrodt collection
Dates: 1872-2002
Collection Number: 2006C62
Collector: Eichrodt, Joan Beecher
Collection Size:
33 manuscript boxes, 7 cassette boxes, 1 card file box and 4 oversize boxes
(24.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: The collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and summaries of interviews, notes, reports, conference proceedings,
newspapers, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to nationalism and separatism in Chechnia and elsewhere in the
Caucasus.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English,
Russian, and
Chechen
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
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Joan Beecher Eichrodt collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2006.
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.
Chechen subject collection, Hoover Institution Archives
Kara-kys Dongikovna Arakchaa papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Paul B. Henze papers, Hoover Institution Archives
| 1933 October 31 | Born, Birmingham, Alabama |
| 1959-1961 | Senior Translator, Radio Liberty |
| 1961-1966 | Policy and Planning Coordinator, U.S. Division, Radio Liberty |
| 1965 | BA, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT |
| 1968 | MA, History, Columbia University. Thesis: Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality and Joseph de Maistre |
| 1975 | PhD, History, Columbia University. Dissertation: Anarchy and Culture: Dmitry Merezhkovsky and the Kairos |
| 1976-1983 | Adjunct Professor, Western Connecticut State College |
| 1977-1983 | Columnist, Citizen News, New Fairfield, CT |
| 1983-1984 | Program Officer, Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union, Columbia University |
| 1985-1990s | Senior Correspondent and Soviet Affairs Analyst, Voice of America |
| 1994-1995 | MacArthur Foundation Grant for Research and Writing |
| 1994-1997 | Conducted research and interviews in the Caucasus, primarily in Chechnia |
| 2008 January 31 | Died, New York |
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of sound recordings, transcripts and summaries of interviews, notes, reports, conference proceedings,
newspapers, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to nationalism and separatism in Chechnia and elsewhere in the
Caucasus.
As a Voice of America correspondent, Eichrodt made frequent trips to the Soviet Union to cover the Congress of People's Deputies
(S"ezd narodnykh deputatov), a democratically elected assembly created by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989. Through a series of interviews
with Congress members, Eichrodt documented the attitudes of Russian officials toward Gorbachev's union treaty and the rights
of autonomous republics, audiotapes of which can be found in the Russia subseries of the
Sound recordings.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Eichrodt was interested primarily in nationalist and separatist groups within the
Russian Federation, particularly the North Caucasus. In 1994, she received a MacArthur grant to write a book on the history
and contemporary politics of the North Caucasus, the proposal for which can be found in the
Personal file.
From 1994 to 1996, Eichrodt used her grant to travel extensively in the Caucasus, interviewing hundreds of local government
officials, citizens and refugees on separatist movements and territorial conflicts. These taped interviews are in the
Sound recordings and grouped by Caucasian republic. Included among Eichrodt's interviewees are Chechen presidents Dzhokhar Dudaev and Aslan
Maskhadov, Ingushetian president Ruslan Aushev, opposition leader Zelimkhan Iandarbiev and public figure Ruslan Labazanov.
Most of the interviews conducted in Chechnia are on domestic affairs from 1990 to 1997, although some relate to Stalin's 1944
deportations of Chechens and Ingush. The collection includes
Interview transcripts of selected tapes as well as
Notebooks maintained by Eichrodt during her interviews and research trips.
In addition to the hundreds of recorded interviews, the bulk of the collection consists of
Research materials,
Clippings and
Newspapers related to Eichrodt's Voice of America reports as well as her planned book on the Caucasus. Topics include history of the
North Caucasian republics, the 1994-1996 war between Russia and Chechnia, ethnic relations, and cross-border conflicts in
the Caucasus, particularly between Ingushetia and Ossetia.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Chechnia (Russia)--History.
Caucasus, South--Politics and government--1991-
Nationalism--Chechnia (Russia)
Nationalism--Transcaucasia.
Phonotapes.