Founded in the tense, early days of the Cold War, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) played the role of a surrogate free press for the nations behind the iron curtain. For more than five decades, RFE/RL has gathered, analyzed, and disseminated information in a unique way. The RFE/RL broadcast archives and corporate records housed at the Hoover Institution provide tremendous insight into the war of ideas waged between the United States and the Soviet Union. With 10.5 million pages of documents and some 80,000 audiotapes, the collection is a rich trove of information for scholars interested in the Cold War and the beginning of the post-Soviet period. [+]