Shapiro, Henry,  1906-1991. <br/><br/>
Henry Shapiro papers, 1920-1992  (bulk 1931-1973). 

 - 51,500  items. 151  1  containers plus  oversize. 61.8  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 5 series.  Series 1: Personal File, 1939-1992; Series 2: United Press International, Moscow Bureau, 1920-1973; Series 3: Speeches and Writings File, 1937-1987; Series 4: Additions, 1931-1990; and Series 5: Oversize, 1954. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Sound recordings of interviews <br/>Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. <br/>transferred to 
<br/><br/><br/>Journalist; died 1991. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003072 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 95082704  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich, 1906-1982. <br/>Castro, Fidel, 1926- <br/>Ceaușescu, Nicolae.<br/>Daniloff, Nicholas, 1934- --Correspondence.<br/>Kádár, János, 1912- <br/>Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971. <br/>Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United Press International.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aeronautics--Soviet Union.<br/>Agriculture--Soviet Union.<br/>Civil rights.<br/>Cold War.<br/>Education.<br/>Elections--Soviet Union.<br/>Espionage--Soviet Union.<br/>Foreign correspondents--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.<br/>International relations.<br/>Jews--Migrations.<br/>Jews--Soviet Union.<br/>Science--Soviet Union.<br/>Trials--Soviet Union.<br/>Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>China--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.<br/>Cuba--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.<br/>Soviet Union--Economic conditions.<br/>Soviet Union--Foreign relations.<br/>Soviet Union--Foreign relations--China.<br/>Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Cuba.<br/>Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.<br/>Soviet Union--History.<br/>Soviet Union--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.<br/>Soviet Union--Politics and government.<br/>Soviet Union--Social conditions.<br/>Soviet Union--Social life and customs.<br/>United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Journalists.