Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: Ryszard Wraga Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1947-1959
Collection number: XX407
Creator:
Wraga, Ryszard
Collection Size:
6 manuscript boxes
2.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Reports, memoranda, and other writings, relating to post-World War II politics in the Soviet Union and Poland, American and
Soviet intelligence and propaganda activities, and activities of Russian and Ukrainian emigre groups. Many of the documents
were prepared for the French intelligence service
Language:
Russian,
Polish,
French,
German and
English.
Collection open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact
the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Ryszard Wraga Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Espionage
Propaganda
Russians in foreign countries
Ukrainians in foreign countries
Poland
Poland--Politics and government--1945-1980
Soviet Union
Russia (Federation)
Ukraine
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1945-1991
| 1902, July 25 | Born Jerzy Antoni Niezbrzycki in Niemirov, Ukraine |
| Degree in law; graduate work in geography and philosophy, University of Warsaw | |
| 1927-1930 | Polish diplomatic service, Moscow and Kiev |
| 1931-1939 | Director of Eastern Section of Polish military intelligence; member, faculty of Polish Military Academy and Institute of Journalism |
| 1939-1945 | Serves with Polish armed forces in Poland and the West |
| 1945-1949 | Resides in London; lectures at Polish Institute of Eastern Affairs and Free Polish University; becomes British subject and changes name to Ryszard Wraga |
| 1949-1958 | Resides in Paris; acts as consultant on Soviet Affairs to French Foreign Office Research Department |
| 1958 | Emigrates to the U.S.; works at Library of Congress |
| 1963-1967 | Research Associate at Hoover Institution, Stanford University |
| 1968, January 30 | Dies, Leesburg, Virginia |