Henry Shapiro papers
Contributors: Cronkite, Walter; Lyons, Eugene, 1898-
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Politics and government; Cold War; Foreign correspondents; Science; Elections; Migrations; Economic conditions; International relations; Social life and customs; Espionage; History; Correspondence; Aeronautics; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Jews; Civil rights; United Press International; Trials; Social conditions; Education; Agriculture; Foreign relations
Description: Correspondence, draft and printed copies of articles and book, lectures, interviews, wire service reports, reference files, notes, memoir, biographical material, clippings, scrapbook, photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Shapiro's career as United Press International's chief Moscow correspondent and bureau manager during the regimes of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, and Leonid Ilʹich Brezhnev.  Documents Soviet life and society, economic and social conditions, politics and government, and foreign policy.  Subjects include aeronautics, agriculture, Fidel Castro and Cuba, relations with China, civil rights, the Cold War, education, elections, espionage, events leading to the German invasion of 1941, international relations, Jews and emigration from the Soviet Union, scientific advances, trials of the 1930s, and the Vietnamese conflict.  Includes drafts and newspaper serializations of Shapiro's book titled, L.U.R.S.S. après Staline (1954), and interviews with Khruschev (1957), János Kádár (1966), and Nicolae Ceauşescu (1972).  Also includes wire reports from Moscow filed by Walter Cronkite and Eugene Lyons.  Correspondents include journalist Nicholas Daniloff.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Ludmilla Shapiro, 1994-1998.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.

Journalist; died 1991.

Collection material in English.

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