Applied oral history aims at comprehending the present through retrospective analysis of political actors' motivations and behavior and providing insights for future policy-making.
The Russia Program invites you to explore these collections of interviews with American and Russian politicians and experts.

Applied oral history offers a unique tool for studying individual and collective memory—with all its attendant caveats. It is a more participatory view of how to write a history that does not start and stop with official written sources alone, and which can thereby capture the texture of lived experiences.
The Russia Program cooperates with other initiatives to establish a corpus of oral history that will be useful for future generations of researchers.