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    <title>Henry Shapiro papers, 1920-1992 (bulk 1931-1973)</title>
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    <namePart>Shapiro, Henry</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1906-1991</namePart>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Sound recordings of interviews transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Journalist; died 1991.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brezhnev, Leonid Ilʹich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1982</namePart>
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      <namePart>Castro, Fidel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1926-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Ceaușescu, Nicolae</namePart>
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      <namePart>Daniloff, Nicholas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1934-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Kádár, János</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1912-</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1971</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stalin, Joseph</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1953</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United Press International.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Aeronautics</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Agriculture</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Civil rights</topic>
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    <topic>Cold War</topic>
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    <topic>Education</topic>
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    <topic>Elections</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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    <topic>Espionage</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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    <topic>Foreign correspondents</topic>
    <geographic>Russia (Federation)</geographic>
    <geographic>Moscow</geographic>
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    <topic>International relations</topic>
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    <topic>Jews</topic>
    <topic>Migrations</topic>
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    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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    <topic>Science</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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    <topic>Trials</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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    <topic>Vietnam War, 1961-1975</topic>
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    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Economic conditions</topic>
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    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>German occupation, 1941-1944</temporal>
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    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
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      <title>Eugene Lyons papers</title>
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      <namePart>Lyons, Eugene,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1898-</namePart>
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