Introduction

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a private, federally-funded nonprofit corporation established in 1950. Originally administered by the Free Europe Committee (formed from the U.S. intelligence community and mass media executives), Radio Free Europe broadcast news and cultural programming to Soviet-occupied European countries, while Radio Liberty broadcast to the Soviet Union. The RFE/RL publications listed below primarily contain news accounts from Soviet Bloc countries acquired by monitoring in-country transmissions; analyses of the news ("situation reports") were then produced and formed the basis for the news coverage broadcast on RFE/RL. A notable feature of Radio Liberty was frequent reading from samizdat, the self-published critiques of the Soviet system smuggled out of the Soviet Union in great numbers in the 1970s. The reports and analyses contained in our collection vary greatly in years of coverage, with the 1970s best represented.

Radio Free Europe Research.
Radio Liberty Research Bulletin.
Report on Eastern Europe.
RFE/RL Research Report.

RFE/RL microfiche: Situation Reports, Background Reports, Press Survey, Opinion Surveys, News from Behind the Iron Curtain.

Location

Print. Government Publications DJK1 .R2, DJK1 .R4, DK1 .R24
Main Reference Microfiche: International microfiche cabinets

Years Covered

1952–1991, not inclusive

Finding Aids

Print volumes include annual indexes; individual microfiche sets contain their own indexes; no comprehensive indexing for all holdings.