Register of the Gene Sosin papers
Finding aid prepared by Lyalya Kharitonova
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Gene Sosin papers
Date (inclusive): 1950-2012
Collection Number: 2004C7
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Materials are in English, Russian, German, Yiddish and Hebrew
Physical Description:
47 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders, audiovisual materials, digital media
(25.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The collection includes correspondence, writings, notes, memoranda, radio broadcast transcripts and working materials, and
printed matter, relating to Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe broadcasting to the audiences in the Soviet Union, political
and social conditions in the Soviet Union, and Soviet émigré affairs.
Creator:
Sosin, Gene
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
Boxes 35 and FH20 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research;
materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the
collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2004.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Gene Sosin papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical/Historical Note
Dr. Gene Sosin, Ph.D. Columbia University, was director of program planning of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; writer, lecturer,
and specialist in Soviet affairs.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection of papers of Gene Sosin primarily covers Sosin's work for Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe.
It includes broadcast transcripts and recordings, correspondence, photographs, poetry, and songs, printed matter, and writings.
Phonotapes of broadcasts, interviews, and songs are also included.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Radio broadcasting -- Soviet Union
Radio Liberty
Career file
1938-1993
Scope and Contents
Includes resumes, correspondence, and press coverage.
box 34
Academic Career
1950-1979
Scope and Contents
Includes Gene Sosin's college coursework, correspondence, and printed matter.
box 42
Career at Radio Liberty
1952-1993
Scope and Contents
Includes resume, correspondence, business cards, printed matter, and scrapbook.
box 35
Time in the military
1938-1991
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
Scope and Contents
Includes a bound volume of recollections from the Second Class, Army Intensive Japanese Language School at Ann Arbor, MI for
the Military Intelligence Service.
Correspondence
1950-2000
Scope and Contents
Letters sent and received from individuals, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 38
Blumberg, Abraham
1966-1969
box 35
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
2000
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 35
Friedberg, Maurice
1969
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 35
Parrell, Robert
1970
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 35
Roosevelt, Eleanor Anna
1956-1957
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 38
Shumilin, Ivan Nikolaevich
1967
box 40
Sosin, Gene and Gloria
1950-1951
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from Munich to family members which later were included to the
Red Letter Year, book by Gloria Donen Sosin.
box 39
Struve, Gleb Petrovich
1968-1969
box 35
Twarog, Leon
1970
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
Subject file
1950-2004
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, interview transcripts, memoranda, messages, minutes of meetings, printed matter, and remarks, arranged
alphabetically by subject.
General files
1952-2004
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, printed matter, research material, and survey reports relating to
RFE/RL programs and their effectiveness.
box 18
50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
1967
Scope and Contents
Clippings
75th Anniversary of Dostoevsky's Death
1956-1971
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, speeches, and writings.
box 35
1956-1971
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 2
Amal'rik (Amalrik), Andrei Alekseevich
1970-1976
Scope and Contents
Includes "An Interview with Andrei Amal'rik" and correspondence.
American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, Inc.
Scope and Contents
Includes reports and printed matter.
box 8
Begun, Vladimir
1976-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes "Invasion Without Arms," typecript, by Begun.
box 43
Belinkov, Arkadii Viktorovich
1968-1972
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter.
box 13
Bitov, Oleg
1984
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, clippings, and press conferens transcript.
Bykovsky, Vladimir
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, and clippings.
box 35
Dallin, Alexander
1954-1976
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and printed matter.
box 37
Dissent in the Soviet Union
1968-1974
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter.
Eastern Europe and Soviet Union
1968-1990
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda and printed matter.
box 21
Emigration from the Communist world
1974-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda, statements, and clippings.
Fulbright, William J.
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, statements, reports and printed matter.
Galich, Aleksandr
1972-1980
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, broadcast scripts, and printed matter.
box 14
Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union
1985-1989
Scope and Contents
Includes research material and reports.
box 31
Harvard Refugee Interview Project
1950-1987
Scope and Contents
Includes "Guide to Materials from the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System," a working paper by Marjorie Mandelstam
Balzer; interview notes, and correspondence from Alex Inkeles.
box 9
Human rights movement in the USSR
1973-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes press conference materials of the International League for Human Rights.
Jewish cultural and social life in Soviet Union (Jewish cultural and Yiddish-language programming on Radio Liberty)
Scope and Contents
Includes interview transcripts, clippings, and correspondence.
box 2
Kabal'chik, Viktor
1972
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
box 2
Karlin, George
1970
Scope and Contents
Testimony of George Karlin, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate
box 13
Konstantinov, Lev
1977-1979
Scope and Contents
Includes arrticles and clippings.
box 44
Kuznetsov, Anatolii
1969
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings.
box 22
Lenin's 100th Anniversary
1970
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings and research bulletins.
box 43
Levich, Veniamin
1971-1983
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, writings, and clippings.
box 9
Levin, Evgenii V.
1975-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda and clippings.
box 35
Levine, Isaac Don
1967-1981
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and printed matter.
box 43
Liubimov, Iurii
1982-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes Liubimov's interview transcript.
box 37
Makarenko, Mikhail
1987-1988
Scope and Contents
Includes political statements and printed matter.
box 35
Mihajlov, Mihajlo
1984-1986
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and printed matter.
box 22
Moscow Helsinki Group
1981-1995
Scope and Contents
Includes reports.
box 43
Moscow Book Fair
circa 1970
Scope and Contents
Includes radio scripts.
box 35
Muheim, Harry Miles
2000
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
Scope and Contents
Includes career profile and writings.
box 8
Nationalism in Soviet Union
1976-1997
Scope and Contents
Includes radio scripts and printed matter.
box 23
Nekrich, Aleksandr Moiseevich
1979
Scope and Contents
Includes Nekrich's interview to Krasov.
Okudzhava, Bulat
1967-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes scripts, notes, and printed matter.
box 13
Ovsishcher, Lev
circa 1975
Scope and Contents
Includes biographical note.
box 2
Pasternak, Boris
1958-1987
Scope and Contents
Includes broadcast script and clippings.
box 13
Propaganda in international affairs
1971-1986
Scope and Contents
Includes printed matter and reports.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) origins, structure, policy, programming, and effectiveness
1955-1987
Scope and Contents
Includes reports and memoranda from the Audience Research and Program Evaluation Division. See also General Files.
box 23
Religion in the USSR
1974-1985
Scope and Contents
Includes background report.
box 26
Rublev, Ruvim
1979
Scope and Contents
"Zapiski kollektsionera," typescript
box 9
Russian contemporary art
1983-1997
Scope and Contents
Includes printed matter.
box 8
Rzhevskii, L.
1965
Scope and Contents
"O problemakh zhanra i stilia v sisteme radioveshchaniia na tu storonu, " broadcasting manual, by Rzhevskii
box 7
Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich
1968-1995
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and printed matter.
Samizdat in the USSR and its future
1971-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes research reports and printed matter.
box 37
Transcripts and exerpts from speeches and talks
1963-1972
Howland Sargeant Memorial Fund
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter.
box 15
Sharansky, Anatoly
1978-1986
Scope and Contents
Includes printed matter.
box 15
Shostakovich, Dmitrii
1979
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, scripts, and printed matter.
box 32
Sinyavsky, Andrei Donatovich
1966-1973
Scope and Contents
Includes materials relating to the Sinyavsky-Daniel trial.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich
Scope and Contents
Includes books review, press conference report, printed matter, and broadcast scripts.
box 31
1986-1994
Scope and Contents
Includes
No Graves to Visit: A Survivor Remembers At Last, as told to Gloria Donen Sosin.
box 31
2000-2004
Scope and Contents
Gloria Donen Sosin's book about the Harvard Refugee Interview Project (under alternate title
APO 407-A: The Munich Year. Includes notes, plans, drafts, cover designs, and correspondence with designer and publishers.
Soviet-American relations
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda, reports, and printed matter.
box 13
Soviet anti-semitic propaganda
1976-1985
Scope and Contents
Includes research material.
box 36
Soviet childrens' theater
1950-1966
Scope and Contents note
Includes "Thirty-three Days in the Soviet Union," a manuscript by Gene Sosin, and other materials relating to his work on
Soviet childrens' theater.
box 15
Soviet concentration camps
1976-1985
Scope and Contents
Includes printed matter.
box 37
Soviet Copyright Agency
1967
Scope and Contents
Includes research papers.
box 9
Soviet cultural exodus
1977-1981
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed matter.
box 7
Soviet deception
1978
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings.
box 22
Soviet defectors
1980-1986
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings and reports.
box 14
Soviet dissedents
1969-1987
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, statements, memoranda, and clippings.
box 37
Soviet education
1958
Scope and Contents
Includes "Soviet Education and Khrushchev's Reform Proposals," report by Albert Boiter.
box 8
Soviet Internal Affairs Conference
1970
Scope and Contents
Introductory presentation by Arnold Horelick.
Soviet Jewry
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter.
box 37
Soviet music
circa 1950
Scope and Contents
Includes "Report on Music in the U.S.S.R.," Radio division, Program department.
box 22
Soviet peace supporters
1983-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda and printed matter.
Soviet press about Radio Liberty
Scope and Contents
Includes printed matter and memoranda.
box 22
Soviet psychological and political warfare
1967-1996
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda, reports, and printed matter.
box 15
Soviet scientists
1960-1995
Scope and Contents
Includes reports, notes, and clippings.
box 7
Soviet sociology
1962-1975
Scope and Contents
Includes an article by V. Zaslavskii.
Soviet youth
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda amd printed matter.
box 2
Soviet way of publishing
1978
box 15
Soviet writers
1961-1987
Scope and Contents
Includes radio scripts, reports, correspondence, and printed matter.
box 21
Special programs for Soviet Jews
1972-1976
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, memoranda, and reports.
Stalinism and re-Stalinization
Scope and Contents
Includes corespondence, articles, and research material.
box 38
Trubin, Chester S.
2000
Scope and Contents
Clippings
box 8
Uncensored Russia
1967-1974
Scope and Contents
Includes articles and reports.
box 31
United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
1946-1948
Scope and Contents
Dance cards for Cadet Hops
box 18
Voinovich, Vladimir
1978-1980
Scope and Contents
Includes biographical notes and clippings.
box 32
Vozlenskii, Mikhail Sergeevich
1973-1975
Scope and Contents
Includes memoranda and reports.
box 32
Vysotskii, Vladimir
1987-1992
Scope and Contents
Includes printed matter.
box 8
Waldheim, Kurt Josef
1986
Scope and Contents
Press reviews.
box 37
Yevtushenko, Yevgenii
1963-1973
Scope and Contents
Includes "Introductory Remarks by Gene Sosin at Princeton University Tribute to Yevtushenko" and printed matter.
box 13
Zhabinskii (Zhabinsky), Vladimir Ivanovich
1954-1977
Scope and Contents
Includes autobiographical memory and clippings.
Photographs
1959-2006
Scope and Contents
Titles taken directly from file or envelope.
box 46
Trip to Europe
1950-1951
Scope and Contents
Depicts Gene and Gloria Sosin at various locations in Germany, France, Austria, Italy, ans Switzerland.
box 47
"Back to Munich"
circa 2000
box 47
Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham at RFE/RL, Prague
1996
box 47
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich
circa 1990
box 47
Galich, Aleksandr, Columbia University
March, 1975
box 47
Vysotsky, Vladimir
circa 1975
box 47
King, Martin Luther at RL
1960
box 47
Kliachkin, Evgenii
circa 1960
box 47
Obraztsov, Sergei Vladimirovich
1959
box 47
Roosevelt, Eleanor Anna at Radio Liberty, New York
1959
box 47
Rostropovich, Mstislav Leopoldovich and Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya
1975
box 47
Sosin, Gene
1959-1970
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs relating to the career of Gene Sosin as a Director of broadcast planning at Radio Liberty.
box 47
Sosin in the company of William Koorey at Russian restaurant "Samovar"
2006
Writings
1955-2012
Scope and Contents
Articles, books, notes, and speeches, arranged chronologically.
box 44
Articles and interviews
1955-2012
box 36
"Prime Time, Comrade"
1977-2010
Scope and Contents
Typescript.
box 36
"Save the Kremlin!"
1987
Scope and Contents
Typescript
box 44
"Uncensored Poems/Songs of Soviet Magnitizdat"
1973-1974
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and research material.
Audiovisual file
1955-1984
Sound recordings
1955-1974
Arrangement Statement
Titles arranged as on the tapes and descriptions in quotation marks taken from tapes packaging.
1/4-inch sound tape reels
1955-1974
box 29
"Court of Reason (I-II), TV, channel 13"
1963 May 29
box 29
"Barry Gray and Gene Sosin"
1959 July 30
box 29
"HJH Astronomy Club Planetarium Show"
circa 1960
box 29
"Transmission from Munich to New York"
1965 November 19
box 29
"Our People Abroad", "Vishniak on October Revolution"
1959 September12
box 29
"Musicals from Ukraine Program"
circa 1965
box 29
"P.R. Kit, Protection Copy"
1958 November 21
box 29
"Gilels and Ulanova"
1971 September 15
box 29
"
Happiness, Russian Jass Quintet"
circa 1970
box 29
"Radio Peking"
1964 August 7
box 29
"Background on Soviet Press"
1963 March 3
box MC9
"Baseball is at beginning"
Physical Description: 1, 1/4-inch sound tape reels (5-inch)
box MC9
"RL Demo"
Physical Description: 1, 1/4-inch sound tape reel (5-inch)
box MC10
"Panel Discussion - OPC, Sosin, Lyons, Dennen - Chairman"
Physical Description: 1, 1/4-inch sound tape reel (7-inch)
Compact soundcassettes
1970-2001
box 29
"Bulat Okudzhava"
circa 1970
box MC17
Sound recordings
1985-2001
Physical Description: 7 compact sound cassettes.
box 29
Videorecording
1984
Scope and Contents
"Inside Story, Special Edition -A Voice From Russia: The World of Vysotsky,' Panavideo
box MC24
News from Russia - Sparks of Liberation #5
Physical Description: 1 VHS videocassettes
box MC24
News from Russia - Yuri Dulerain
2008 March 3
Physical Description: 1 VHS videocassette
box MC62
Interview with Emil Draitser: Politics and Humor in the Soviet Union
1980 February 12
Physical Description: 1 U-matic videocassette
Oversize Material
1950 and undated
Scope and Contents
Includes maps, a poster, and a scrapbook.
drawer G18
Maps of the Moldovan and Ukrainian SSRs
undated
drawer G18
Kto anti-semit? poster
undated
box 48
Scrapbook
1950
Scope and Contents
Contains clippings, photographs, and other printed matter relating to Sosin's trip to Germany and France.
Printed Matter
1961-2004
Scope and Contents
Includes monographs, pamphlets, and serial issues, relating to various activities of Radio Liberty, arranged alphabetically
by physical form and chronologically thereunder.
Periodical issues
1963-2004
box 26
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Newsletter
1973-2004
box 11
The Board for International Broadcasting, annual reports
1975-1994
box 27
Freedom at Issue
1985-1990
box 26
Index on Censorship
1973-1985
box 35
2005
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 35
The New Review Novyi Zhurnal
1967
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 28
Problems of Communism
1963-1984
box 35
Problemy Vostochnoi Evropy
1981
1984
Access
Box 35 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 25
Radio Liberty Research Bulletin
1980-1988
box 27
RFL/RL Research Report
1992
box 24
Soviet Interview Project Reports, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1985-1986
box 45
Student (the Students Russian Monthly)
1960
Monographs and pamphlets
1961-1994
box 1
Sources of Support for Training and Research on Russia and the USSR, compiled by J. Bruce Boisture
1975
box 45
Mezhdunarodnyi obmen informatsiei. Ego storonniki i protivniki, by G. Vachnadze and U. Kashlev
1980
box 9
The Media and Intra-Elite Communication in the USSR, Lilita Dzirkals, Thana Gustafson, A. Ross Johnson
1982
box 45
Child of War and Revolution, Abraham Koosis
1984
box 1
A Biographical Directory of 100 Leading Soviet Officials, compiled by Alexander G. Rahr
1986
box 45
An Epitaph for Raphael Lemkin, by William Korey
2001
box 45
Ptushki peraletnyia, by Galina Rudnik
2011
box 10
Materials not yet described
box FH20
Material not yet described
Access
Box FH20 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
Digital materials
Access
Digital materials are not available until processed. If interested in accessing these materials, please contact us for more
information.
box MC2
Iskry Svobody
undated
Physical Description: 1 optical disk
box MC2
RYE Talk Show
2008 September 14
Physical Description: 1 optical disk