Leon Volkov Papers

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/institutions/Hoover+Institution http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf167n986x Diaries, correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, clippings, press excerpts, and printed matter, relating to social and political conditions in the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign policy, international politics, and Russian refugee life. Box 5 of this collection contains a xerox copy of a pamphlet entitled "Soviet Jews: Fact and Fiction." The 47 page publication was issued by the Novosti Press Agency, Moscow, in the late l960s. Box 7 contains three folders of a typescript by Boris Shorin with the title "The Life of a Soviet Jew." The various chapters deal with "A Child of the Revolution," "The Beginning of the War," and "The Red Army in Europe." The manuscript was written in l946. Lieutenant colonel, Soviet air force, during World War II; editor and journalist for Newsweek magazine, 1953-1974; consultant on Soviet affairs to the United States Departments of State and Defense.