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You get the exact 1.6 inch stack of documents and business card shownin the photos.
Condition: Good vintage condition.
The heavily filled binder is marked “Request Nos. 10 + 11” and contains a wide-ranging collection of internal and reference material assembled for institutional use. The exact context of the request numbers has not been independently established, so no specific legal or investigative proceeding is being claimed.
Visible contents date primarily from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s and include:
- Radio Liberty and RFE/RL internal memoranda and correspondence
- Russian Service editorial and programming material
- Board for International Broadcasting authorization material
- Documents relating to Soviet-born Radio Liberty editor Oleg Tumanov, his 1986 return to the Soviet Union and his public allegations against Radio Liberty
- Reuters and other wire-service reports
- Material concerning Russian Service editorial oversight and the Program and Broadcast Analysis Section
- Discussions of alleged nationalism, antisemitism and editorial-policy violations
- Jewish and other specialized audience programming
- Samizdat and Soviet religious-movement research
- Radio Free Afghanistan authorization material
- Armenia/Azerbaijan broadcast controversy
- Russian, English and German-language documents and clippings
- Handwritten annotations and working notes
- Radio Liberty brochures and organizational publications
- Newspaper and periodical clippings
Names visible among the material include Oleg Tumanov, James L. Buckley, Nicholas Vasilev, Vladimir Matusevitch, Fatima Salkazanova, Savik Shuster, Serge Schmemann and others.
The binder served as a genuine working reference file for Mr. Petroff rather than a later collector’s compilation. Some pieces are period office originals or contemporary institutional printouts, while others are photocopies, translated texts or published clippings. No claim is made that every document is a unique original.
📚Provenance
This material comes from the personal archive of Nicholas Petroff, a journalist, Russian-affairs specialist and longtime figure associated with Radio Liberty/RFE-RL. The archive’s Petroff provenance provides important context for the material and helps explain its concentration on Russian Service editorial policy, Soviet affairs, broadcasting and institutional controversies.
An unusually substantial research lot offering primary-source and contemporary reference material connected with Cold War broadcasting, Soviet propaganda, émigré journalism, Radio Liberty’s Russian Service and the transition into the post-Soviet era.
The complete binder and all contents shown are included. Nothing has been removed or separated for this listing.
Please review all photographs for the range of contents and condition. Because of the volume of material, the lot has not been page-counted or fully inventoried.
Bonus:
As an added provenance piece, this lot includes one original Nicholas Petroff business card, shown in the final photograph.
Will ship safely as always.
