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Abstract Or Scope: Typescript memoirs of Vozni︠u︡k-Burmin. The memoirs concern the activities of the NKVD in the late 1930's in the USSR. The first typescript (35 p.) is untitled and written under the name A Dneprovet︠s︡; it deals with events in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. The second typescript, entitled "Kak sozdai︠u︡t︠s︡i︠a︡ 'Sputniki'" (18 p.), discusses the NKVD's supervision of scientific research; it is written under the name A. Lunin.

Creator: Association of Young Historians of the Soviet Union
Abstract Or Scope: Includes drafts and discussions related to new Law on Archives and other documents related to changing approaches to history during the last years of the Soviet regime.

Creator: Committee of Concerned Scientists
Abstract Or Scope: This collection documents the efforts of the Committee of Concerned Scientists in promoting academic and personal freedom for scientists, scholars, engineers, and students.

Creator: Cowan, Louis G., 1909-1976
Abstract Or Scope: A group of 45 Soviet World War II posters. These posters were part of a numbered series of 1,250 produced as wartime art and propaganda by the Tass Window Collective in Moscow. The collection is believed to have been acquired from the Rockwell Kent Estate

Creator: Frankel, Max, 1930-
Abstract Or Scope: The Max Frankel Papers contain personal papers, research files for Frankel's memoirs, and files pertaining to Frankel's journalism career, including extensive working files for the period in which Frankel was Executive Editor of The New York Times.

Creator: Research in Contemporary Cultures
Abstract Or Scope: This collection contains the records of the Research in Contemporary Cultures project (1947-1953) begun by Ruth Benedict at Columbia University, and carried out by Margaret Mead at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History after Benedict's death in 1948. The records of three successor projects, Studies in Soviet Culture (1948-1952), Studies in Contemporary Culture (1951-1952), and and Study Program of Human Health and the Ecology of Man (1954-1956) are also included. The purpose of these projects was anthropological study at a distance of global cultures inaccessible for direct observation, in an attempt to establish the "national character" of countries of geopolitical interest to the United States government.

Creator: Afanasʹev, I͡U. V.
Abstract Or Scope: A collection of 268 Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938. Numerous composers and lyricists (primarily Russian but also European and American) are represented. Most scores were published in Moscow or Leningrad. Other imprints include Rostov-na-Donu, Kiev, Kharʹkov, and Tiflis. Most scores are popular music, jazz or dance music. The covers were designed by many different artists. The collection includes musical settings of poems by Esenin, Lebedev-Kumach and Mayakovsky among others.

Creator: Soviet Independent Press
Abstract Or Scope: More than 2000 titles of periodicals and newspapers (many of them complete runs), as well as thousands of leaflets, broadsides and posters. Titles includes: Antisovetskaia Pravda, Armianskii Vestnik, Atmoda, Azadlyg, Baltiiskoe Vremia, Belarusskaia Tribuna, Chernoe Znamia, Demokraticheskaia Gazeta, Demokraticheskaia Rossiia, Edalet, Ekspress-khronika, Evrei i Perestroika, Evreiskaia Gazeta, Golos Kurda, Romania Libera, Carpatische Rundschau, to name just a few.

Abstract Or Scope: Russian Newspapers of the 20th Century: The birth of "Pravda" in Russia (1912); The Death and Funeral of Stalin (1953); and Khrushchev's Visit to North Africa (1964)

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