Scholars, including perhaps most importantly scholars from Russia, will be using these materials for many decades. Its a fantastic story.Michael McFaul, director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and former US ambassador to Russia
An international collaboration that profoundly affected scholarship and helped render historys judgment on a dangerous, pathological ideology.Anne Applebaum, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning Gulag: A History
Of great interest. to anyone who wants a better understanding of Russian politics and archival affairs during the first decade after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.Mark Kramer, director of Cold War studies, Harvard University
The achievement was literally historic. This book tells the fascinating, at times gripping, story.Mark Harrison, emeritus professor of economics, University of Warwick
Against considerable odds, Palm pulled off one of the most complex and successful coups in modern national-archives history.Paul Gregory, research fellow, Hoover Institution, and Cullen Professor Emeritus, University of Houston
