Archival Documentation and Oral History on the Warsaw Pact (Research Brief)

In September-October 2002, I traveled to Eastern Europe with the main goal of attending in Bucharest the conference on “Romania and the Warsaw Pact” and pursue the further opening of the still largely inaccessible Romanian archives from the Cold War period. At variance with my original proposal, I did not find it necessary to travel to Poland and Hungary, where the intended goals of my travel had been accomplished without necessitating special trips. Instead, on my way to Bucharest, I went to Prague for meetings at the Institute on Contemporary history to make provisions for research in the newly opened files of the Czechoslovak communist party from the 1970-80s and for the online pub lication of new documents.

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Vojtech Mastny, of the National Security Archive, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants fellow.