General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:6/55

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. 55

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_006-055

Legacy ID

rfe_conference_meeting-048

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

Close-up of Russian writer and scientist Vladimir Bukovsky and author and diplomat Robert Conquest sitting at a table. They are turned towards one another and are in cordial conversation. Both are formally dressed. Bukovsky smokes. There is a microphone in front of Bukovsky. There is a plant on the window sill behind the two men. Same event as in HU OSA 300-1-8:6/56, HU OSA 300-1-8:6/57, 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 - Glasnost and Gorbachev were the topics as two of the world's leading experts on communism met at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty headquarters here. Left is Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian writer and scientist now at King's College, Cambridge, prominent Soviet dissident, author, lecturer, winner of the Konrad Adenauer Freedom and Literature Prize; and Robert Conquest, distinguished author, editor, educator and diplomat, whose books and articles on the Soviet Union have earned wide acclaim. The two were members of a panel of international authorities on communism who conducted a seminar discussion on "The USSR Under Gorbachev: Glasnost and its Implications" at RFE/RL on May 19, 1987.

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, politician, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, scholar