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| | STANFORD Magazine: March/April 2006 > Showcase > Hoover |
 | | Many of the Hoover’s 65 million-odd items—official documents, diaries, letters, newspapers and other publications, photographs and films, artwork, personal effects and more—were secured through subterfuge, networking and arm-twisting, or sheer serendipity by Hoover staff on the ground during the 20th century’s most wrenching upheavals. |
 | | A research fellow at Hoover specializing in Russian and modern European history, Patenaude hews to his areas of expertise rather than trying to cover the entire archive, which today represents much of the globe. |
 | | Hoover curator Frank Golder, a Russian émigré and later a Stanford history professor, went on a three-year collecting trip in 1920, amassing Slavic materials in Europe and the Near East then entering Soviet Russia with Hoover’s relief contingent. |
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