Word: rosarkhiv
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...Hoover Institution was not simply the financial backer of the project that produced this collection. With the Russian State Archives (Rosarkhiv), Hoover initiated and directed the project. Since 1992, when I signed an agreement with the Russian State Archives, Hoover and Rosarkhiv have microfilmed over 12 million pages of documentation from the Communist Party and State archives, and are now filming documents on the Soviet Gulag. Hoover provided all the necessary resources for the project. An advisory board composed of scholars representing the Hoover Institution and Rosarkhiv selected the documents filmed for the collection...
...project's goals is to make the microfilm collection as widely available to scholars as possible. Accordingly, Hoover and Rosarkhiv agreed to publish the collection by offering it for sale. Hoover's $3 million investment to create the collection has thus made it possible for libraries around the world, including the Lamont Library at Harvard, to gain access to an valuable scholarly resource at a very reasonable cost. As a result of its purchase, Harvard has acquired an archival collection that will serve its students and scholars well for many years to come...
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