FRUS Volume on Eastern Europe, 1973-1976, Elicits Dismay, by Steven Aftergood, Secrecy News, Sept. 10, 2008.
While every FRUS publication is of interest, the latest E-volume reinforced concerns about diminishing quality control in the venerable series.
“I was taken aback by how skimpy it is,” said Mark Kramer, director of the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies.
In principle, the major advantage of a softcopy-only volume is that it permits publication of a greatly expanded collection of records, unlimited by the production constraints of a hardcopy volume. But that advantage has gone unrealized in the new FRUS volume.
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