Saturday, March 08, 2025

The Soviet Microfilm Project at Hoover Institution. Really!

What a joke in the year 2025! This seems to be a very valuable, probably extraordinary repository of historical documents about the history of the former Soviet Union and the communist party.

However, no mention whether these microfilms [???] have been transferred to modern storage mediums. So if someone wants to look up Putin the Terrible, you have to sit at a microfilm reader?

The Soviet Microfilm Project | Hoover Institution The Soviet Microfilm Project "Charles Palm recalls the ambitious effort he spearheaded to microfilm the newly opened Soviet archives after the collapse of the USSR in 1991."

Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State Microfilm Collection "Documents relating to political conditions in the Soviet Union from 1903 to 1992 are available on 11,676 microfilm reels at the Hoover Archives. Each reel contains approximately 850 pages of documents."

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