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Constan (1888- ) was a diplomat. His papers include memoranda, writings, transcripts, leaflets, pamphlets, and other material relating principally to affairs in Yugoslavia (1941-1947), especially the communist show trials of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac and General Draža Mihailovich. Also documented are conditions in the schools, and anticommunism.

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Gajauskas was a Lithuanian political activist, legislator, and a Soviet political prisoner. His papers contain a 1982 miniature letter from Gajauskas as a political prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Kuchino, to Max M. Kampelman, US ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Madrid, Spain, concerning human rights in Lithuania. A typewritten translation in English is included. The collection also contains a 2000 letter from Gajauskas to Kampelman regarding the open letter of 1982 and the intervening years in Lithuania.

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A collection of correspondence, minutes, financial accounts, and other records and papers of Guatemalan government agencies, political parties, labor unions, and private individuals, nationally and internationally, compiled by the Guatemalan Comité Nacional de Defensa contra El Comunismo. The material pertains to the period of Guatemalan history dating from the overthrow and exile from power of General Jorge Ubico in 1944 to the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán by Carlos Castillo Armas in 1954. The documents reflect the emergence and growth of political parties and labor unions during a decade of change, the sweep of social reform attempted by Arbenz and his predecessor, Juan José Arévalo, the struggle of Arbenz's government for survival, and the influence on it domestically and internationally of socialists and communists. Included is correspondence between Guatemalans and individuals and organizations abroad, generally of communist origin; along with minutes and records of leading political parties and labor unions.

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Papánek (1896-1991) was a Czech diplomat. His papers contain correspondence, memoranda, diary, speeches, reports, transcripts of radio broadcasts, biographical material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a map relating to Papánek's years in the US as representative of the Czechoslovak government in exile during World War II and to his service in the United Nations (1945-1948). The papers also include material pertaining to the democratic movement and government of Czechoslovakia and to communist activities and takeover of Czechoslovakia. Includes papers of Edvard Beneš, Jan Masaryk, T. G. Masaryk, and Gregory Ignatius Zatkovich.

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Souvanna Phouma (1901-1984) was prince and prime minister of Laos. The collection consists of copies of ten volumes of diaries with inserted material such as letters, cables, memoranda, communiques, clippings, and other printed material. It reflects Souvanna's role as nationalist and conciliator of the political factions within Laos including the Neo Lao Haksat (political arm of the Pathet Lao) led by Prince Souphanouvong, the rightist faction led by Prince Boun Oum Na Champassak, and the neutralists led by Souvanna; and the role played by the Soviets, Americans, and Vietnamese. The papers chronicle the International Conference on the Settlement of the Laotian Question held in Geneva, Switzerland (1961-62) and the resulting formation of a tripartite government; Laos's gradual polarization and descent into civil war; the country's increasing dependence on the West; the growing influence of the communist bloc and the Pathet Lao; and the creation of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos).

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The collection consists of transcripts of the investigation by the Russian Supreme Soviet Commission for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August Putsch of the 1991 coup attempt against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that led to the election of Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Federation. The material documents the investigation of the structure, activity, and financial dealings of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the role of the KGB in the activities of the Communist Party; and the participation of the armed forces in the coup attempt. The collection material is in Russian, with English translations.

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Volkogonov (1928-1995) was a military historian, member of the Russian parliament, and advisor to the president of the Russian Federation. His papers consist of copies of correspondence, memoranda, articles, texts of speeches, interviews, personal testimonies, investigative and other reports, official protocols, directives, resolutions, schedules, logs, inventories of archival material, printed material, film scenarios, and photographs reproduced from records in thirteen Russian archives as well as the originals of some of Volkogonov's personal papers. The collection reflects Volkogonov's study of significant events and individuals of modern Russian history beginning in the 1870s and 1880s with the births of those participating in events leading to the Russian Revolution and continuing through World War II, the Cold War, and perestroĭka into the mid-1990s. Documented are major internal historical events in the development of the Soviet Union and its empire as well as foreign relations and external events of the period. Subjects include communism; the psychology and effects of absolute power; and the Communist Party and the armed forces in modern Russia. Other topics include the arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the work of a joint American and Soviet commission on prisoners of wars and missing in action, and modern Russian archival policies.