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Eugene Lyons Papers http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf8h4nb2xg No online items Register of the Eugene Lyons papers Finding aid prepared by Ronald Bulatoff Hoover Institution Library and Archives © 1998 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6003 [email protected] URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Register of the Eugene Lyons 85006 1 papers Title: Eugene Lyons papers Date (inclusive): 1919-1981 Collection Number: 85006 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: English Physical Description: 17 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 10 envelopes, 1 album box, 6 phonotapes, 13 phonorecords(10.0 Linear Feet) Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, pamphlets, other printed matter, photographs, and sound recordings, relating primarily to conditions in the Soviet Union under communism, the international communist movement, and the career of Herbert Hoover. Access The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives Acquisition Information Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1985. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Eugene Lyons papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. 1898, July 1 Born, Uzlian, Russia 1907 Arrived in the United States 1917-18 Student, College City of New York 1918 Private, U.S. Army 1918-19 Student, Columbia University 1919 Naturalized as United States citizen 1920 Employee, Erie Dispatch (Pennsylvania) 1922 Employee, Boston Telegram 1922-23 Editor, Soviet Russia Pictorial 1923-27 Assistant Director, Tass Agency 1927 Author, The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti 1928-1934 United Press correspondent in the Soviet Union 1934 Author, Six Soviet Plays 1935 Author, Moscow Carousel 1935-39 Member, Ames and Norr Public Relations 1937 Author, Assignment in Utopia 1937 Editor, We Cover the World 1939-1944 Editor, The American Mercury 1940 Author, Stalin, Czar of all the Russias 1941 Author, The Red Decade 1944-45 Editor, Pageant 1946-1968 Editor, The Readers Digest 1948 Author, Our Unknown Ex-President, a Portrait of Herbert Hoover 1951-52 President, American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia 1953 Author, Our Secret Allies: The Peoples of Russia 1959 Author, The Herbert Hoover Story 1964 Author, Herbert Hoover: a Biography 1966 Author, David Sarnoff: a Biography 1967 Author, Workers' Paradise Lost: 50 Years of Soviet Communism: a Balance Sheet 1985, Died, New York City January 10 Scope and Contents Correspondence, writings, notes, pamphlets, other printed matter, photographs, and sound recordings, relating primarily to conditions in the Soviet Union under communism, the international communist movement, and the career of Herbert Hoover. Register of the Eugene Lyons 85006 2 papers Subjects and Indexing Terms Audiotapes Sound recordings Journalists Communism Soviet Union -- History Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1934-1981 Scope and Contents note Correspondence, legal documents, clippings and printed matter, relating to Eugene Lyons' career, financial matters, health, and family. box 1, folder 1 Addresses, calling cards box 1, folder 2 Awards, certificates box 1, folder 3 Biographical notes box 1, folder 4-5 Clippings box 1, folder 6 Insurance on personal possessions 1970 box 1, folder 7 Lease on Moscow apartment 1934 box 1, folder 8 Lyons, Yetta, medical history 1968-1973 CORRESPONDENCE 1938-1981 Scope and Contents note Letters, including attached reports, memoranda, printed material, notes and clippings. Arranged alphabetically. General box 1, folder 9-12 Miscellaneous box 1, folder 13 Russian refugees in Carinthia, Austria 1949 box 1, folder 14 Unidentified box 1, folder 15 Adler, Julius 1950 box 1, folder 16 Allilueva, Svetlana 1967, 1969 box 1, folder 17 Alsop, Joseph 1953 box 1, folder 18 American Committee for Liberation 1959 box 1, folder 19 Antin, Anthony 1976 box 1, folder 20 Arlington House Publishers 1976 box 1, folder 21 Aronina, Ida 1977 box 1, folder 22 Ball, George W. 1972 box 1, folder 23 Berger, Ira M. 1976 box 1, folder 24 Bergman, B. A. 1967 box 1, folder 25 Blagowidow, George 1976 box 1, folder 26 Brock, Irene 1978 box 1, folder 27 Brownell, William 1976-77 box 1, folder 28 Buckley, William F. 1968-69, 1976, 1978 box 1, folder 29 Burnham, James 1969 box 1, folder 30 Callaway, Lew L. ( Newsweek) 1967 box 1, folder 31 Canby, Vincent 1971 box 1, folder 32 Center for the Survival of Western Democracies 1979 box 1, folder 33 Chellson, Elizabeth 1978 box 1, folder 34 Colebrook, Joan 1974 box 1, folder 35 Conquest, Robert 1968-69 box 1, folder 36 Corletti, Lawrence A. 1975 box 1, folder 37 Cowles, Gardner 1967 box 1, folder 38 Davis, Jerome 1950 box 1, folder 39 Deal Lake Motel, Asbury Park, New Jersey 1976 Register of the Eugene Lyons 85006 3 papers CORRESPONDENCE 1938-1981 box 1, folder 40 Dodd, Thomas J. 1964 box 1, folder 41 Dodds, Harold W. 1964 box 1, folder 42 Dutch Treat Club 1978 box 1, folder 43 Eastman, Max 1953, 1965 box 1, folder 44 Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1964 box 1, folder 45 Elez, Andrew 1981 box 1, folder 46 Ellender, Allen J. 1958-59 box 1, folder 47 Estabrook, Howard 1969 box 1, folder 48 Forster, Mr. 1962 box 1, folder 49 Geltman, Max 1979 box 1, folder 50 Glenny, Michael 1969 box 1, folder 51 Gotlieb, Howard B. 1965 box 1, folder 52 Granfar, Moosa 1959 box 1, folder 53 Greenwood Press 1977 box 1, folder 54 Grunblatt, David 1979 box 1, folder 55 Hansen, Clifford P. 1967 box 1, folder 56 Harriman, W. Averell 1963 box 1, folder 57 Hatfield, Mark 1979 box 1, folder 58 Henderson, Loy 1974 box 1, folder 59 Hillman, Rita K. 1975 box 1, folder 60 Hook, Sidney 1968 box 1, folder 61 Hoover, Herbert 1959 box 1, folder 62 Hoover, Herbert Jr. 1960, 1963 box 1, folder 63 Human Events 1959 box 1, folder 64 Internal Revenue Service 1979 box 2, folder 1 Johnson, Allen 1979 box 2, folder 2 Johnson, Lyndon B. 1962 box 2, folder 3 Kaganski, Zakhary 1934 box 2, folder 4 Kastner, Alton 1960 box 2, folder 5 Kaufman, Bel 1964, 1966 box 2, folder 6 Kohler, Foy D. 1976 box 2, folder 7 Labin, Suzanne 1970 box 2, folder 8 Lamont, Corliss 1964 box 2, folder 9 Lewis, Hobart 1973 box 2, folder 10 Lewis, Marx 1967 box 2, folder 11 Linville, Dr. 1938 box 2, folder 12 Litante, Judith 1979 box 2, folder 13 Lodge, John Davis 1967 box 2, folder 14 Lofton, John D. 1964 box 2, folder 15 Lovestone, Jay 1967 box 2, folder 16 Lyons, Dan 1976, 1979 box 2, folder 17 Lyons, Gretchen n.d. box 2, folder 18 Marin, Luis Munoz 1960 box 2, folder 19 Matthews, Ruth I. 1979 box 2, folder 20 May, Ronald W. 1959 box 2, folder 21 Methvin, Gene 1967 box 2, folder 22 Montgomery, Robert H. 1958 box 2, folder 23 Munson, Lyle H. 1963 box 2, folder 24 Muntzel, R. J. 1963 box 2, folder 25 Navrozov, Lev 1974 box 2, folder 26 New York Times Magazine 1959 box 2, folder 27 Nixon, Richard M. 1961, 1963, 1968 box 2, folder 28 Norwood, James E. 1968, 1975 box 2, folder 29 Overseas Press Club of America 1979 box 2, folder 30 Possony, Stefan 1975 box 2, folder 31 Raynes, Julius 1971 box 2, folder 32 Reagan, Ronald 1966 box 2, folder 33 Reid, Helen 1953 Register of the Eugene Lyons 85006 4 papers CORRESPONDENCE 1938-1981 box 2, folder 34 Robinson, Ione 1976 box 2, folder 35 Roche, John P. 1968 box 2, folder 36 Russell, Mr. 1961 box 2, folder 37 Samuel French, Inc. 1980 box 2, folder 38 Sargent, Wyn 1968 box 2, folder 39 Sarnoff, David 1952, 1965 box 2, folder 40 Scott, John 1976 box 2, folder 41 Seversky Electronatom Corporation 1975 box 2, folder 42 Smith, Harrison 1952 box 2, folder 43 Sourwine, J. G. 1974 box 2, folder 44 Spivak, Lawrence 1977 box 2, folder 45 Sulzberger, Mr. 1950 box 2, folder 46 Sutton, Anthony 1968 box 2, folder 47 Thayer, Peter J. 1978 box 2, folder 48 Thomas, Lowell 1967 box 2, folder 49 Truman, Harry S. 1964 box 2, folder 50 Tyrmand, Mr. 1968 box 2, folder 51 U.S. Information Agency 1966-67 box 2, folder 52 University of Oregon Library 1966, 1980 box 2, folder 53 Voice Publishing Company (Seoul, Korea) 1971 box 2, folder 54 Wallace, De Witt 1959, 1971, 1976 box 2, folder 55 Welch, Robert 1959 box 2, folder 56 Whitehill, F. S. n.d. box 2, folder 57 Wick, James L. 1964 box 2, folder 58 Wiley, Charles 1960 box 2, folder 59 Wolfe, Bertram D. 1973 box 2, folder 60 Yoken, Mel B. 1976 SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1919-1976 Scope and Contents note Typescript and printed copies, with related notes and source materials, reviews, memoranda, press releases, clippings, correspondence, and miscellany. Arranged chronologically. General box 2, Undated articles, drafts, notes folder 61-62 box 3, folder 1-4 Undated articles, drafts, notes box 3, folder 5 1919-1945 box 3, folder 6 1946-1954 box 3, folder 7 1946-1955 box 3, folder 8 1956-58 box 3, folder 9 1956-1964 box 4, folder 1 1956-1976 box 4, folder 2 1959-1963 box 4, folder 3 1959-1974 box 4, folder 4 1966-1974 box 4, folder 5 Correspondence relating to various articles and books 1937-39 Research notes and clippings box 4, folder 6 Khrushchev, Nikita S., research notes Lenin, Vladimir I. Research notes, clippings. box 4, folder 7-8 General box 4, folder 9 After 1905 box 4, folder 10 Armand, Inessa box 4, folder 11 Character, personality box 5, folder 1 Chernyshevsky and other influences box 5, folder 2 Childhood, youth box 5, folder 3 Death and embalment box 5, folder 4 German funding Register of the Eugene Lyons 85006 5 papers SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1919-1976 box 5, folder 5 Last years box 5, folder 6 Petersburg and Siberian exile box 5, folder 7 Sealed train and arrival in Petrograd Soviet Union.
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