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Title: Ludmila A. Foster papers
Date (inclusive): 1958-2014
Collection Number: 2016C40
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian and English
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(4.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, printed matter, videocassettes and sound cassettes relating to Russian émigré literature, Russiam émigré affairs,
and the Congress of Russian-Americans.
Creator:
Foster, Ludmila A., 1931-2014
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 2016.
[Identification of item], Ludmila A. Foster papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Ludmila Foster, born in 1931, was a Russian émigré journalist and scholar. She received her Ph.D. in Russian Literature from
Harvard University in 1970 and subsequently worked for the Voice of America and the United States Information Agency. She
later headed the Washington Office of the Congress of Russian Americans. Foster died in 2014.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Ludmila A. Foster papers consist primarily of chronological files reflecting both her scholarly and journalistic activity.
They contain published and unpublished writings, as well as some of the interviews she conducted for the Voice of America,
notably with Harvard historian Richard Pipes, Senator Gordon Humphrey, and Vladislav Naumov, a Soviet soldier who defected
to the Afghan Mujahedeen in 1983.
Among the more significant correspondents found in the collection is Russian academician Dmitrii Likhachev, who, in a letter
dated 14 January 1991, describes his participation in the first official Soviet publication of Boris Pasternak's prose in
1982.
The collection also includes two boxes of sound cassettes and one box of videocassettes containing Fosters' interviews, Mikhail
Leont'ev's
Bol'shaia igra (The Big Game), and various other recordings.
In addition to Ludmila Foster's own papers, the collection contains a set of sketches of the First World War and later life
in the Soviet Union by an unidentified individual.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russian literature
Russians -- United States
Audiotapes
Video tapes
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Congress of Russian-Americans