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Used with permission from the Hoover Digest Charles G. Palm About half way through the project, we lost him. In December 1995, the parliamentary election threatened to end the Yeltsin administration. Government opposition parties won 53% of the vote, while Yeltsin's supporters won only 38%. In January, Pikhoia, speaking on behalf of his Rosarkhiv collegium, notified me that our agreement was terminated. The Hoover project exposed a conflict in Russian society. On the one hand, many Russians...
Charles (Chuck) Palm, a graduate of Chinook High School, class of 1962, is the Deputy Director Emeritus of the Hoover Institution located on the campus of Stanford University. His 2024 book, "Documenting Communism," is based on the agreement he negotiated in 1992 to microfilm the archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State. The project involved the microfilming of over 12 million documents. The narrative that follows, written by Palm, is an overview of the challenges of and results f...
