Open Society Archives wish to express its gratitude to the distinguished co-organisers of the exhibit:

State Archives of the Republic of Georgia, Georgia
Akademie der Künste, Germany
Bundesarchiv, Germany
National Security Archives, United States of America
Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv - Frankfurt am Main-Babelsberg, Germany

Sources of the documents

Films

State Archives of the Republic of Georgia, Tbilisi
Remembering Stalin / Georgian film, 1953

State Archives for Film and Photographic Documents, Krasnogorsk
Stalin Is Immortal / Soviet film, 1953
Stalin's Death / extract from a Soviet colour motion picture film

Hungarian National Film Archives, Budapest
Stalin's Funeral / Special edition of Hungarian Newsreel, 1953

Progress-Film-Verleih GmbH, Berlin
Stalin's Work is Immortal (Stalins Werk ist Unsterblich) / East-German film, 1953
Eternal Tribute to the Great Stalin Dem Grossen Stalin Ewiges Gedenken) / East-German film, 1953

Open Society Archives, audio-visual collection, Budapest
Lenin's funeral January 1924 / extracts from the film entitled Regular Funerals Back and Forth
Construction of the Lenin Mausoleum / extracts from the film entitled Regular Funerals Back and Forth

Audio materials

Archives of German Radio, Frankfurt am Main - Babelsberg
Johannes R. Becher: "Dem Ewig-Lebenden" (To the Immortal) Deutschland Radio, Cologne
East-German Radio announces Stalin's death

Archives of Hungarian Radio, Budapest
Aurél MOLNÁR, correspondent of Hungarian Radio reports on the Budapest memorial service of 9 March
Funeral address of Erno GERO, Deputy President of Council of Ministers
Sound recordings of the Moscow memorial service with Hungarian translation: extracts from the speeches of Malenkov, Beriya and Molotov with Khrushchev's introduction

Audio archives of the U.S.Information Agency, Washington
Radio Voice of America on Stalin's death

Hoover Institute, Washington DC
announcement of Moscow Radio of Stalin's death

Open Society Archives, audio-visual collection, Budapest
Miklós GÁBOR reads out the mourning announcement of the Propaganda Department
Sviatoslav Richter's recollections of Stalin's funeral
Zdravica (Welcome) by Prokofiev

Documents

Office for History, Budapest
Documents of incitement lawsuits in Hungary, from March 1953

Hungarian National Archives
Documents of incitement lawsuits in Hungary, from March 1953
Extracts from the meeting of the Central Leadership of the Hungarian Workers' Party held on 6 March 1953

Library of the Hungarian News Agency, Budapest
Transcripts of "hostile" radio broadcasts

Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
Sándor ÉK's portrait of Stalin, reproduction

State Archives of the Russian Federation, Moscow
Incitement lawsuits, verdicts in connection with Stalin's death, prosecution summaries
Minutes of the meetings of the leading bodies of the Soviet Communist Party, 3 March, 5 March 1953;
Preparing the party for Stalin's death; decisions on power positions;
Diaries, telegrams and letters of condolences (manuscripts and typewritten scripts) in connection with Stalin's death
Mobilization plan of the security forces in Moscow for the day of the funeral

Memorial Archives, Moscow
Drawing and photograph from the gulag
Summary of the dimensions and magnitude of Stalin's terror

Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Berlin
Documents of the condolences of the leading bodies of the German Socialist Unity Party, compulsory memorial
services, mobilization of the security forces, scripts of the memorial services
Decision and initiatives of the German Academy of Arts in connection with Stalin's death (telegram of condolences, obituary, poetic tribute)
Telegrams of condolences of German workers
Original manuscript of Joachim Becher's poem about Stalin's death

Archives of Stasi (East-German political police), Berlin
Documents of East-German incitement lawsuits from March 1953

Georgian State Archives, Tbilisi
Condolences from March 1953 Leading bodies of the Georgian party on the March 1956 pro-Stalin disturbances
Documents of incitement lawsuits and police proceedings in connection with the pro-Stalin disturbances, March 1956

National Security Archives, Washington DC (original documents in the US National Archives)
CIA and US Department of State analyses, memoranda and reports on the reception of Stalin's death and its anticipated consequences
Correspondence of the Foreign Department with the leaders of Russian emigrant organizations in the US
Press materials, press coverage of the US Communist Party on Stalin's death

Open Society Archives, Budapest
Materials of the Research Institute of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, 1949-1994
Item Collection, 1951-1956
Monitoring Collection, Hungarian radio monitoring, 1951-1994
Library, Eastern European and Soviet newspaper and magazine collection

Photographs

Historical Photo Collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
Photographs from Budapest and the countryside, and from other countries (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Albania, France, Britain, Romania): pictures of mourning and the funeral, March 1953

Photo Archives of the Hungarian News Agency, Budapest
Photographs of the funeral and mourning, March 1953
Funerals of Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko, 1982, 1984, 1985

Russian State Archives of Photographic and Film Documents, Krasnogorsk
Photographs from Moscow and other parts of the Soviet Union: pictures of mourning and the funeral

Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Berlin
Photographs from Berlin and other East-German cities: pictures of mourning and the funeral

Georgian State Archives, Tbilisi
Photographs of the funeral and mourning in March 1953 from Georgia and other Caucasian republics
Photograph of the pro-Stalin demonstration in March 1956