Who Owns History? The Use and Abuse of the Hoover Archives

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Eric Wakin , a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and the director of Hoover's Library and Archives, discusses the applications of Hoover's archival material in a talk entitled "Who Owns History? The Use and Abuse of the Hoover Archives." Topics include a brief history of the Hoover Archives; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's research in the USSR using Hoover materials, Hoover maps, and documents on the Soviet Union gulags; microfilmed Soviet documents from Afghanistan; a Chinese exhibit using Hoover materials; and Hoover's materials on the Long March.

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