Am-Rus Literary Agency records
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11900
Subjects: Theater; Literary agents; Copyright; Publishers and publishing; Vsesoi︠u︡znoe agentstvo po avtorskim pravam; Soviet literature; Translators; Authors and publishers; Mezhdunarodnai︠a︡ kniga; Booksellers and bookselling
Description: Correspondence, writings, reviews, contracts, royalty statements, financial records, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and photographs.  Correspondence is chiefly between the agency and American publishers, theaters, translators, VAAP, and Mezhdunarodnai︠a︡ kniga, the offical Soviet book import-export firm.  Authors represented include Chingiz Aĭtmatov, Anatoliĭ Georgievich Aleksin, M.M. Bakhtin, Mikhail Afanasʹevich Bulgakov, Korneĭ Chukovskiĭ, Ilʹi︠a︡ Ėrenburg, Konstantin Fedin, Maksim Gorky, I︠U︡riĭ Kazakov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava, A.F. Pisemskiĭ, Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov, Ėdvard Radzinskiĭ, Valentin Grigorʹevich Rasputin, Mark Rozovskiĭ, Anatoliĭ Naumovich Rybakov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Georgiĭ Vladimov, and Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1996.

Literary agency for Soviet writers seeking publication or theatrical production in the U.S. in affliation with the Copyright Agency of the USSR (Vsesoi︠u︡znoe agentstvo po avtorskim pravam, known by the acronym VAAP).

Collection material in English and Russian.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.