General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:6/57

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Archival photo box #6 / No. 57

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_006-057

Legacy ID

rfe_conference_meeting-050

Date

1987

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

Russian writer and scientist Vladimir Bukovsky, author and diplomat Robert Conquest, U.S ambassador Leonard Marks, political scientist Peter Reddaway, journalist Michel Tatu and Director of the West German Federal Institute for East European and International Studies Heinrich Vogel are sitting at a conference table. They are listening and taking notes. They are formally dressed. On the table, which is covered with a white cloth, there are glasses, jugs of water and microphones and name plates. Behind them, there are plants on the window sills. Heads of two of the audience is seen, the right hand one is President of RFE/RL Gene Pell. Same event as in HU OSA 300-1-8:6/55, HU OSA 300-1-8:6/56, HU OSA 300-1-8:6/58, HU OSA 300-1-8:6/59, HU OSA 300-1-8:6/60, HU OSA 300-1-8:2/4.

ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Munich - Five of the world's leading experts on communism met at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 19 as members of a panel discussing "The USSR Under Gorbachev: Glasnost and its Implications" before and audience of international media, diplomats and the Radio staff. From left to right are: Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian writer and scientist now at King's College, Cambridge, prominent Soviet dissident, author, lecturer and winner of the Konrad Adenauer Freedom and Literature Prize; Robert Conquest, distinguished author, editor, educator and diplomat, whose books and articles on the Soviet Union have earned wide acclaim; U.S. Ambassador Leonard Marks, who moderated the Seminar; Peter Reddaway, Secretary of the Kennen Institute in Washington, D.D., former Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics, political scientist and author of numerous books and studies on the USSR; Michel Tatu, journalist, author and specialist on the Communist world, former Le Monde Correspondent in Moscow and Eastern Europe; and Dr. Heinrich Vogel, Director of the West German Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne and recognized authority on Communist developments. In the foreground, right, is Gene Pell, President of FRE/RL.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

Cold War, conference, Glasnost, man, microphone, politician, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, scholar