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The University of Texas at Austin Libraries have partnered with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies to digitize archival materials related to the Cold War from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library's archival collections. Our curated digitized collection includes the Country Files for Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Albania from the National Security Files (NSF) collection. This site also includes the Glossy Communism collection, which hosts essays and select images from the propaganda magazines Soviet Life, Bulgaria Today, Czechoslovak Life, and Yugoslav Life. We will continue adding new content, including the country files for Hungary, Bulgaria, and the USSR, which are coming soon.

Contributors to the creation of this website and the digitized collection include Mary Neuburger, Ian Goodale, Tetiana Klynina, Alayna Parlevliet, Nick Pierce, Eliza Fisher, Sarth Khare, Nilcole Marino, Mary Rader, Esmeralda Moscatelli and students from the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies program at UT Austin. 

Images used on the site are primarily sourced from the LBJ Presidential Library's online photo archive and the Wikimedia Commons.