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Title: Eugene Lyons papers
Date (inclusive): 1919-1981
Collection Number: 85006
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
17 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 10 envelopes, 1 album box, 6 phonotapes, 13 phonorecords
(10.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, pamphlets, other printed matter, photographs, and sound recordings, relating primarily to
conditions in the Soviet Union under communism, the international communist movement, and the career of Herbert Hoover.
Creator:
Lyons, Eugene, 1898-1985
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1985.
[Identification of item], Eugene Lyons papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1898, July 1 | Born, Uzlian, Russia |
| 1907 | Arrived in the United States |
| 1917-18 | Student, College City of New York |
| 1918 | Private, U.S. Army |
| 1918-19 | Student, Columbia University |
| 1919 | Naturalized as United States citizen |
| 1920 | Employee, Erie Dispatch (Pennsylvania) |
| 1922 | Employee, Boston Telegram |
| 1922-23 | Editor, Soviet Russia Pictorial |
| 1923-27 | Assistant Director, Tass Agency |
| 1927 | Author, The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti |
| 1928-1934 | United Press correspondent in the Soviet Union |
| 1934 | Author, Six Soviet Plays |
| 1935 | Author, Moscow Carousel |
| 1935-39 | Member, Ames and Norr Public Relations |
| 1937 | Author, Assignment in Utopia |
| 1937 | Editor, We Cover the World |
| 1939-1944 | Editor, The American Mercury |
| 1940 | Author, Stalin, Czar of all the Russias |
| 1941 | Author, The Red Decade |
| 1944-45 | Editor, Pageant |
| 1946-1968 | Editor, The Readers Digest |
| 1948 | Author, Our Unknown Ex-President, a Portrait of Herbert Hoover |
| 1951-52 | President, American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia |
| 1953 | Author, Our Secret Allies: The Peoples of Russia |
| 1959 | Author, The Herbert Hoover Story |
| 1964 | Author, Herbert Hoover: a Biography |
| 1966 | Author, David Sarnoff: a Biography |
| 1967 | Author, Workers' Paradise Lost: 50 Years of Soviet Communism: a Balance Sheet |
| 1985, January 10 | Died, New York City |
Correspondence, writings, notes, pamphlets, other printed matter, photographs, and sound recordings, relating primarily to
conditions in the Soviet Union under communism, the international communist movement, and the career of Herbert Hoover.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Sound recordings
Journalists
Communism
Soviet Union -- History
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964