History On-Line Presents:

Professor Mark Kramer 

Director of Cold War Studies at Harvard University, Senior Fellow of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Director of Harvard's Sakharov Program on Human Rights

• Russian State Archive of Recent History  (RGANI)
• State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF)
• Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI)
• The Russian Foreign Policy Archive (AVPRF)

Conducted in English for non-Russian and Russian language scholars

Moderator: Sławomir Łukasiewicz, Professor of European Studies, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin; Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Chair: Victoria Phillips, Visiting Fellow, Department of International History, London School of Economics

Friday, 22 October 2021, 12 noon Eastern Standard Time, via Zoom

RSVP: [email protected]

Please join us for this next presentation in a series of ad-hoc seminars to explore freely-accessible on-line digital collections with archivists internationally. With massive numbers of free-access collections globally going digital, how do we remain disciplined and targeted when searching, yet also let the information lead us to new findings? As with old-fashioned approaches, the archivists can guide us to new understandings via zoomed meetings.

The first seminars took us to the Rockefeller Archive Center in Tarrytown, NY, the Open Society Archives in Budapest, Hungary, the FRUS Collection with the US State Department Office of the Historian and the CIA Reading Room, and the Cold War collections at the British National Library, and sessions on Polish and Latin American sources. For recordings of these sessions, please visit https://www.victoria-phillips.global/history-online. Please address questions to Dr. Victoria Phillips, [email protected] or [email protected].