Preliminary Inventory of the Andrew Nagorski interview recordings
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Title: Andrew Nagorski interview recordings
Date (inclusive): 1976-2008
Collection Number: 2017C54
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Polish
Physical Description:
4 oversize boxes (130 sound cassettes)
(1.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Interviews of political leaders, dissidents and others, mainly relating to political and social conditions in Poland, other
countries of Eastern Europe, and post-Soviet Russia.
Creator:
Nagorski, Andrew
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2017.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Andrew Nagorski interview recordings, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Name Index
Adamkus, Valdas, 122
Ahtisaari, Martti, 114
Antall, József, 89
Bagsik, Bogusław, 51
Balcerowicz, Leszek, 38
Békesi, László, 91
Biedenkopf, Kurt, 103
Bielecki, Jan Krzysztof, 23
Bielecki, Jerzy, 55
Boguta, Grzegorz, 47
Boross, Péter, 91
Bujak, Zbigniew, 16-21, 44
Burns, Arthur, 107
Busek, Erhard, 123
Bush, George H. W., 119
Čarnogurský, Jan, 84
Celiński, Andrzej, 53
Ciosek, Stanisław, 39
Dienstbier, Jiří, 80, 81, 82
Djilas, Milovan, 108
Dubček, Alexander, 73
Gaidar, Yegor, 58
Gauck, Joachim, 93
Geremek, Bronisław, 44, 45, 46, 81
Göncz, Árpád, 88
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 56, 57
Grigoryants, Sergei, 59
Górnicki, Wiesław, 49
Grynberg, Henryk, 48
Havel, Václav, 69-72
Hegedüs, Ándrás, 87
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 120
Hentosz, Mirosław, 52
Herbst, Lothar, 95
Heym, Stefan, 94
Horn, Gyula, 91
Jeszensky, Gábor, 91
Kaczyński, Jarosław, 23
Kaczyński, Lech, 23
Kapuściński, Ryszard, 24-27
Kaunda, Kenneth, 117
Kavan, Jan, 83
Kelly, Petra, 100
Kertz, Yevgenia, 68
Klaus, Václav, 76
Klein, Klaus and Eva, 102
Knabe, Wilhelm, 101
Kohl, Helmut, 92
Kovács, László, 90
Kozłowski, Krzysztof, 41
Kukliński, Ryszard, 42, 43
Kwaśniewski, Aleksander, 33, 34, 53
Laar, Mart, 110 Lebed, Aleksandr, 60
Lepper, Andrzej, 40 Mály, Václav, 75, 84
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz, 2, 11-15
Mécs, Imre, 85
Medvedev, Roy, 62, 63, 66
Michnik, Adam, 35
Moldan, Bedřich, 79
Nachama, Andreas, 96
Nagorski, Andrew, 124-130
Olechowski, Andrzej, 54
Orbán, Viktor, 86
Özdemir, Cem, 106
Palouš, Martin, 82
Paton, Alan, 118
Prokhanov, Aleksandr, 61
Rácz, Sándor, 85
Rakowski, Mieczysław, 36
Rau, Johannes, 104
Reykowski, Janusz, 37
Saakashvili, Mikheil, 121
Samsonov, Viktor, 68
Sekuła, Ireneusz, 50
Schlögel, Karl, 116
Schröder, Gerhard, 97
Shushkevich, Stanislav, 113
Štěpán, Miroslav, 77, 78
Spielberg, Steven, 31, 32
Stoyanov, Peter, 112
Szymborska, Wisława, 28
Tikhonova, Valentina, 67
Todenhöfer, Jurgen, 105
Uhl, Petr, 74
Voigt, Karsten, 98, 99
Voinovich, Vladimir, 65
Voslensky, Mikhael, 64
Wajda, Andrzej, 29, 30, 44
Wałęsa, Lech, 1-10
Wiesenthal, Simon, 109
Železný, Vladimír, 82
Zhelev, Zhelyu, 111
Zimmermann, Warren, 115
Biographical Note
American journalist;
Newsweek foreign correspondent and editor.
Scope and Content of Collection
Interviews of political leaders, dissidents and others, mainly relating to political and social conditions in Poland, other
countries of Eastern Europe, and post-Soviet Russia. Many of the interviews from the late 1980s and early 1990s were used
not only for
Newsweek stories but also for Nagorski's book,
The Birth of Freedom (1993).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-
Audiotapes
Poland -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989-
online digital
Gdańsk Lenin Shipyard, Wałęsa and Mazowiecki
1988 May 04
online digital
On campaign trail in Mielec and Rzeszów
1990 November 02
online digital
Visiting U.S., Blair House
circa 2005 August
online digital
Mazowiecki campaigning in Szczecin
1990 November 04
Zbigniew Bujak
1985 August 19
Scope and Contents note
Extended interview with Bujak while he was still leading the Solidarity underground movement and in hiding. Circumstances
of the interview are described in Nagorski's book,
The Birth of Freedom.
online digital
Visit to UN in New York
2008 September 23
online digital
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki and Jarosław Kaczyński
1992 January 27
online digital
Wisława Szymborska
1997 January 20
Scope and Contents note
In her apartment in Kraków.
online digital, online digital
online digital, online digital
online digital
1994 March 02
Scope and Contents note
A press conference following the premiere of
Schindler's List.
Assorted Polish interviews, batch 1
online digital
Editor-in-Chief of Polish publishing house SuperNowa
circa 1976-2008
Scope and Contents note
Interviewee is not formally identified, but is possibly Mirosław Kowalski.
online digital
Mieczysław Rakowski
1988 April 29
online digital
Janusz Reykowski
1988 April 29
online digital
Leszek Balcerowicz
1991 October 30
online digital
Stanisław Ciosek
1991 September 10
online digital
Andrzej Lepper
1999 November 03
online digital
Krzysztof Kozłowski
1990 September 06
online digital
Ryszard Kukliński
1997 October 13
Scope and Contents note
Parts 1 and 2 of interview. Each part has two tracks.
Assorted Polish interviews, batch 2
online digital
Andrzej Wajda, Bronisław Geremek, Zbigniew Bujak
1989 November 03
online digital
Grzegorz Boguta
1990 November 09
Scope and Contents note
On publishing in the underground.
online digital
Henryk Grynberg
1992 February 26
online digital
Wiesław Górnicki
1990 November 21
online digital
Ireneusz Sekuła
1990 December 13
online digital
Bogusław Bagsik
1991 August 07
online digital
Mirosław Hentosz
1995 October 24
online digital
Andrzej Celiński (side A and part of B)
1991 October 29
online digital
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
1991 October 29
online digital
Andrzej Olechowski
1991 January 21
online digital
Jerzy Bielecki
1994 October 07
online digital
Interview with foreign journalists
1995 February 24
online digital
Interview in Novosibirsk
1995 February 24
online digital
Yegor Gaidar
1994 January 05
online digital
Sergei Grigoryants
circa 1995 July 02 - 1996 July 02
online digital
General Aleksandr Lebed
circa 1995 October 18
Scope and Contents note
Interview conducted in Moldova while he was still in charge of Russian forces there.
online digital
Aleksandr Prokhanov
1996 May 15
online digital
Michael Voslensky
1988 January 19
online digital
Vladimir Voinovich
1995 August 25
Former Gulag prisoners
Scope and Contents note
Interview for article that ran in
Newsweek International, September 25, 1995.
online digital
Historian Roy Medvedev (not former prisoner)
1995 September 5
online digital
Valentina Tikhonova
1995 August 15
online digital
Viktor Samsonov
1995 September 26
online digital
Yevgenia Kertz
1995 September 26
Czech and Slovak Interviews
online digital
1986 March 28
Scope and Contents note
In his Prague apartment during dissident days.
online digital
As President
1991 July 01
online digital
As President
1993 January 21
online digital
As President
1999 February 10
online digital
Alexander Dubček
1990 May 14
Assorted Czech interviews
online digital
Václav Mály
1991 January 09
online digital
Václav Klaus
1990 October 16
online digital
Miroslav Štěpán
1991 October 07
online digital
Bedřich Moldan
1991 September 23
online digital
Jiří Dienstbier
1992 June 10
online digital
Jiří Dienstbier
1994 November 11
online digital
Bronisław Geremek
1994 November 15
online digital
Jiří Dienstbier, Martin Palouš, Vladimir Železný
1990 October 15
online digital
Jan Kavan
1991 September 24
online digital
Jan Čarnogurský (Slovakia)
1991 January 07
online digital
Imre Mécs and Sándor Rácz
1986 October 07
Scope and Contents note
Veterans of 1956 revolution on 30th anniversary.
online digital
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
1998 September 10
online digital
András Hegedüs
circa 1976-2008
online digital
President Árpád Göncz
1990 May 18
online digital
Prime Minister József Antall
1991 October 21
online digital
Foreign Minister László Kovács
1997 July 08
Scope and Contents note
Interview in Madrid.
online digital
Gyula Horn, László Békesi, Gábor Jeszensky, Péter Boross
1994 April 21
online digital
Helmut Kohl
1986 October 16
Scope and Contents note
Joint interview with
Newsweek editor Maynard Parker. Interview caused an uproar because of Kohl's comparison of Gorbachev's PR technique to Joseph Goebbels.
online digital
Joachim Gauck
1999 October 12
online digital
Stefan Heym (East German writer)
1987 September 11
online digital
Lothar Herbst
1987 October 19
Scope and Contents note
During his stay in Germany.
online digital
Andreas Nachama
1998 May 11
online digital
Gerhard Schröder
1999 April 13
online digital
Social Democrats
1997 May 07
Scope and Contents note
Should include the story of his wife who had informed on him for the Stasi. Nagorski wrote an article about this that appeared
in the June 23, 1997 issue of
Newsweek.
online digital
Petra Kelly, Greens
1985 April 26
online digital
Wilhelm Knabe, Greens
1987 August 28
online digital
Klaus and Eva Klein (Berlin Wall escapees)
1999 January 26
online digital
Kurt Biedenkopf
1996 October 21
online digital
Johannes Rau
1986 November 13
online digital
Jurgen Todenhöfer
1984 April 23
online digital
Cem Özdemir
1999 August 19
online digital
Arthur Burns (U.S. ambassador)
1985 March 13
online digital
Milovan Djilas
1987 October 06
online digital
Simon Wiesenthal
1994 February
online digital
Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar
1994 March 17
online digital
Bulgarian President Zhelyu Zhelev
circa 1990s
online digital
Bulgarian President Peter Stoyanov
1996 November 23
online digital
Stanislav Shushkevich (Minsk)
1994 February 01
online digital
Martti Ahtisaari
1999 June 11
online digital
Warren Zimmermann (head of US delegation to OSCE)
1986 October 28
online digital
Karl Schlögel (German writer on concept of Mitteleuropa)
1987 March 09
online digital
Kenneth Kaunda (President of Zambia, Lusaka)
1976 October 13
online digital
Alan Paton (anti-apartheid activist, Durban, South Africa)
1976 October 16
online digital
Ex-President George H.W. Bush
circa 1994-2000
Scope and Contents note
Brief testimonial for Polish edition of
Newsweek.
online digital
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (Afghan rebel leader)
1985 November 13
online digital
Mikheil Saakashvili
2004 September 23
online digital
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus
1999 March 08
online digital
Erhard Busek (Austrian politician, on Mittleeuropa)
1987 February 10
Radio Interviews about Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
online digital
Pat McCann Show, WOR NY
1982 August 27
online digital
1988 August 24
Scope and Contents note
Labor unrest in Poland.
online digital
1989 June 6
Scope and Contents note
Poland elections.
online digital
Fiske Show, WAMU
1985 October 30
Scope and Contents note
Soviet Union. Two parts.
online digital
Cuthbert Show, WAMU
1989 August 25
Scope and Contents note
Eastern Europe.
online digital
"Newsweek" on Air
1985 March 31
online digital
Radio show, Nagorski's expulsion from Soviet Union
circa 1980s