Whitman Bassow papers,

Bassow, Whitman.

Whitman Bassow papers, 1920-1990. - 250 items. 4 containers. 1.6 linear feet.

Restrictions apply.

Chiefly transcripts of interviews conducted by Bassow with journalists working in the Soviet Union as foreign correspondents for various news organizations for his book, The Moscow Correspondents: Reporting on Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost (1988); together with related correspondence, notes, clippings, and photographs.


Audio recordings
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
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Journalist who served as a United Press International correspondent in the Soviet Union and as Newsweek's first bureau chief in Moscow; born 1921.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007111

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Foreign correspondents--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.


Soviet Union--History.


Journalists.

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