Leon Volkov Papers

Identifier
77088
Language of Description
English
Dates
1948 - 1974
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI

Biographical History

Lieutenant colonel, Soviet air force, during World War II; editor and journalist for Newsweek magazine, 1953-1974; consultant on Soviet affairs to the United States Departments of State and Defense.

Scope and Content

Diaries, correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, clippings, press excerpts, and printed matter, relating to social and political conditions in the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign policy, international politics, and Russian refugee life. Box 5 of this collection contains a xerox copy of a pamphlet entitled "Soviet Jews: Fact and Fiction." The 47 page publication was issued by the Novosti Press Agency, Moscow, in the late l960s. Box 7 contains three folders of a typescript by Boris Shorin with the title "The Life of a Soviet Jew." The various chapters deal with "A Child of the Revolution," "The Beginning of the War," and "The Red Army in Europe." The manuscript was written in l946.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

7 ms. boxes.

Archivist Note

Status: October 1980, revised most recently August 2016 by Agnes F. Peterson

Sources

  • The Hoover Institution Archives: Annotated list of archival materials relating to the Holocaust (Inclued materials relating to Jews, Jewish communities in various countries, Zionism, and antisemitism)

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0