Charles Palm, Deputy Director Emeritus of the Hoover Institution, recalls the ambitious effort he spearheaded to microfilm the newly opened Soviet archives after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The landmark project made available a “massive trove of Soviet government and Communist Party records” to researchers everywhere.
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