Am-Rus Literary Agency records, 1927-1990 (bulk 1945-1990).
- 11,900 items. 34 containers. 13.6 linear feet.
- Arranged in 2 series. Series 1: Author File, 1936-1990; and Series 2: Miscellany, 1927-1990.
Open to research.
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 Mezhdunarodnai͡a kniga, the offical Soviet book import-export firm. Authors represented include Chingiz Aĭtmatov, Anatoliĭ Georgievich Aleksin, M.M. Bakhtin, Mikhail Afanasʹevich Bulgakov, Korneĭ Chukovskiĭ, Ilʹi͡a Ėrenburg, Konstantin Fedin, Maksim Gorky, I͡Uriĭ 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 Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Georgiĭ Vladimov, and Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko.
Literary agency for Soviet writers seeking publication or theatrical production in the U.S. in affiliation with the Copyright Agency of the USSR (Vsesoi͡uznoe agentstvo po avtorskim pravam, known by the acronym VAAP).
Collection material in English and Russian.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011069
Mezhdunarodnai͡a kniga. Vsesoi͡uznoe agentstvo po avtorskim pravam.
Authors and publishers--Soviet Union. Booksellers and bookselling--Soviet Union. Copyright--Soviet Union. Literary agents--Soviet Union. Literary agents--United States. Publishers and publishing--United States. Soviet literature. Theater--Soviet Union. Theater--United States. Translators--Soviet Union. Translators--United States.