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  • Title: Aleksander Pruszynski papers
    Date (inclusive): 1917-2019
    Collection Number: 2009C30
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: Multiple languages
    Physical Description: 20 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize folder (7.6 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Writings, correspondence, reports, personal documents, photocopies of government documents, election campaign literature, and other printed matter, relating to political conditions in Belarus and Poland. Includes photocopies of Polish secret police files.
    Creator: Pruszyński, Aleksander, 1934-
    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

    Materials originally received in 2009 with a large increment of materials received in August of 2014 and appearing under the Incremental Materials series.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Aleksander Pruszynski papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    Aleksander Pruszyński is a Polish, Canadian and Belarusian journalist and collector. He was born on May 4, 1934 in Rohoźnica, in what is now Western Belarus. Pruszyński is an ethnic Pole born of an aristocratic family and holds the title of a Count. Pruszyński's father was the famed Ksawery Pruszyński: journalist, writer and diplomat. Aleksander Pruszyński holds a triple citizenship: Polish, Belarusian and Canadian. Though his political campaigns were unsuccessful, he is well known as an electoral candidate both in Poland and Belarus. Pruszyński's primary career focus is writing and political journalism. In the 1980s he published a Polish émigré newspaper in Toronto, "The Polish Express," and still actively publishes articles and brochures primarily for the Toronto branch of the "Goniec," a weekly Polish magazine.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The collection is highly eclectic and primarily composed of materials documenting various elections, both in Poland and elsewhere. It also includes information on various campaigns and controversies, ephemera, posters, various monographs and writings by Pruszyński and others. The highlights of the collection are the documents housed in boxes 12 to 15 that speak to Pruszyński's involvement with the Służba Bezpieczeństwa (Polish security service). The period documented is 1950s to 1980s, from Pruszyński's work as an agent for the SB to his time as an anti-communist activist in Canada. The documents in this section are copies of the original internal documents housed at the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw.
    Due to the wide-ranging nature of the materials, especially those that were originally contained in envelopes, the collection has been kept as recevied, in its original order. The envelopes have been rehoused into folders and ordered by date the materials were received from the collector. To facilitate ease of access a detailed description of the envelope content is provided. This is a multilanguage collection in Polish, Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, and English.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Secret service -- Poland
    Poland -- Politics and government
    Elections -- Belarus
    Belarus -- Politics and government
    Elections -- Poland