Correspondence
1982-2000
Arrangement
Two groups of correspondence arranged by initial of last name, first by Cyrillic and then by Latinic
box 1, folder 1
Аганбегян Абель, Academician
1965, circa 1990
box 1, folder 1
Арана Татьяна
1986
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter to Вероника
box 1, folder 1
Белкин Виктор
1990 May-October
Scope and Contents
Includes Birman's writings
box 1, folder 1
Бергер Михаил, letter to him
1986 September
box 1, folder 1
Великанова Лора, letters to her
1989-1991
Scope and Contents
Includes а letter to
Литературная газета and clipping
box 1, folder 1
Владимов Георгий
1985-1986
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with М. Поповский and В. Максимов
box 1, folder 1
Гейсберг Самуил
1974 August-October
box 1, folder 3
Голомшток Игорь
1974 August-October
box 1, folder 3
Гуревич Владимир, letter to him
1990
box 1, folder 3
Довлатов Сергей
1980-1981, 1987, undated
box 1, folder 3
Каценеленбойген Арон
1974-1979
box 1, folder 4
Конторович Владимир
1983-1985
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings
box 1, folder 5
Лебедева Л.
1990
Scope and Contents
Includes an interview of I. Birman and correspondence with А.М. Никифоров
box 1, folder 6
Любарский Кронид
1982-1987, 1992
box 1, folder 7-8
Майбурд Евгений
1981-1988
Scope and Contents
Relates to the book by Майбурд. Includes an introduction with related notes, unidentified letter, and a letter to "Третьяковы"
box 1, folder 9
Манзель Абрам
1974-1975
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter to Ф. Бурлацкий
box 1, folder 9
Надеин Владимир
1989-1991
box 1, folder 9
Пятигорский Александр
1974
box 1, folder 10
Перельман Виктор
1979-1980
box 1, folder 10
Розанова Мария Васильевна
1978-1979, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes essay by I. Birman
box 1, folder 10
Рубинов Анатолий
1988-1999
box 1, folder 10
Светлова Екатерина Фердинандовна
1985
box 1, folder 10
Смолянский Олесь
1975-1976
box 1, folder 11
Тремль Владимир
1974-1978
box 1, folder 11
Фишер Елена (Fisher-Westley, Elena)
1974
box 2, folder 1
Чалидзе Валерий
1980-1985
Scope and Contents
Includes materials relating to the Foundation for Soviet Studies and essay by I. Birman
box 2, folder 2
Шляпентох Владимир
1983-1985
box 2, folder 4
Auslund, Andres
1988-1991
box 2, folder 4
Berliner, Joseph
1976, 1978
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Franklin Holzman and undated draft letter
box 2, folder 5
Becker, Abraham
1978-1994
box 2, folder 7-8
Clarke, Roger
1980-1993, 2000
box 2, folder 9
Conquest, Robert
1981, 1983
box 2, folder 9
Ebershtadt, Nick
1990, 1999, undated
box 2, folder 10
Ellman, Michael
1974-1992, 2000
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings with Ellmans's writings
box 2, folder 11
Epstein, David
1982-1986, 1989
box 2, folder 11
Feinbach, Murray
1977-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes draft letter in Russian
box 2, folder 11
Goldman, Marshall
1985, 1989
box 2, folder 11
Grossman, Gregory
1974-1984
box 3, folder 1
Koivisto, Mauno, President of the Republic of Finland
1990
box 3, folder 2
Marshall, Andrew
1981-1982. 1989-1990
box 3, folder 2
Miller, Jack
1975-1978
Scope and Contents
Includes I. Birman's writings and clipping of 1980s.
box 3, folder 4
Montias, J. M.
1975, 1980-1981
box 3, folder 6
Pipes, Richard
1980-2000
Scope and Contents
Includes photo (1977) and CV of Pipes
box 3, folder 7
Reddaway, Peter
198=-1987
box 3, folder 7
Remnek, Richard
1974-1976
Scope and Contents
Includes Birman's writings
box 3, folder 7
Rosenfeld, Stephen
1976-1989
box 3, folder 7
Rosefielde, Steven
1975-1989
box 3, folder 8
Savigne, Marie
1983, 1987, 1991
box 3, folder 8
Smith, Hedrick, L
1984-1985
box 3, folder 8
Thorne, Ludmila
1974-1975
box 3, folder 8
Willis, Peter
1980-1997
Scope and Contents
Includes essay "Inflation in the USSR" by I. Birman
Miscellaneous letters
1974-2002
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
Scope and Contents
Relates mostly to Birman's search for job
box 4, folder 4, 5
CIA (Gertrude Greensdale)
1976-1985
Scope and Contents
Includes Birman's writings
Universities
1974-1978
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically
box 4, folder 6
Arizona State University
1978
box 4, folder 6
College of William and Mary
1975
box 4, folder 6
Columbia University
1974-1976
box 4, folder 6
Oklahoma State University
1976
box 4, folder 6
Northern Arizona University
1975
box 4, folder 6
Queens College of the City University of New York
1976
box 4, folder 6
State University of New York at Albany
1978
box 4, folder 6
University of Denver
1976
box 4, folder 6
University of Michigan
1976
box 4, folder 6
University of Missouri- St. Louis
1976
box 4, folder 6
University of Pittsburg
1977
box 4, folder 6
Rejection letters
1976-1980
Publications in Russian
1978-1992
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically
box 4, folder 7
Синтаксис
1978
Scope and Contents
Letters to Розанова Мария Васильевна
box 4, folder 7
Время и мы
1978-1980
Scope and Contents
Includes Birman's writing
box 4, folder 7
Континент
1978-1984, 1987 April
box 4, folder 8
Грани
1984 June
Scope and Contents
Letters to and from Марк Поповский
box 4, folder 8
Литературная газета
1987-1988
Scope and Contents
Includes letters to Бергер and Богачев and clippings
box 4, folder 8
BBC (Александр Донде)
1988
box 4, folder 8
Московские новости
1990 August
Scope and Contents
Letters to Владимир Гуревич, chief editor
box 4, folder 8
Октябрь
1990 September
Scope and Contents
Includes Birman's writings
box 4, folder 8
Аргументы и факты
1990 November
box 4, folder 8
Экономика и организация промышленного производства ЕКО
1990 Novemebr
box 4, folder 8
Издательство ПиК
1990 December
Publishers
1978-1991
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically
box 4, folder 9
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Ltd
1983-1984
box 4, folder 9
Ballinger Publishing Company
1983
box 4, folder 9
Cambridge University Press
1983
box 4, folder 9
Cornell University Press
1983
box 4, folder 9
Foreign Affairs
1981 February-June
box 4, folder 9
Foreign Policy
1981 March
box 4, folder 9
Frances Pinter Publishers
1987
box 4, folder 9
Houghton Miffin Company
1983
box 4, folder 9
Human Science Press
1983-1984
Scope and Contents
Includes Birman's writings, his CV, and editorial questionnaire
box 4, folder 10
John Hopkins University Press
1983
box 4, folder 10
John Willey and Sons, Inc.
1983-1984
box 4, folder 10
Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers
1983-1984
box 4, folder 10
Kontinent
1980-1985, 1990
Scope and Contents
Letters to and from Cornelia Gerstenmiers
box 4, folder 10
Little, Brown and Company Publishers
1983-1984
box 4, folder 10
Los Angeles Times
1984
Scope and Contents
Includes Birman's writings
box 4, folder 1
Macmillan Press Ltd
1983-1984, 1989 May
box 4, folder 1
Martin Nijhoff Publishers BV
1983
box 4, folder 1
National Strategy Information Center, Inc.
1984
box 4, folder 1
New York Review of Books
1980-1981
box 4, folder 1
Public Policy Affairs
1984-1985
box 4, folder 1
Queens College of the City University of New York
1983
box 4, folder 1
RAND Corporation
1984, 1991
box 4, folder 1
Rutgers University Press
1983
box 4, folder 2
St. Martin's Press, Inc.
1989 May
box 4, folder 2
State University of New York Press
1983-1984
box 4, folder 2
W.W. Norton & Company Inc
1983
box 4, folder 3
Washington Post
1980, 1983, 1985
Scope and Contents
Includes Birman's writings
box 4, folder 3
Wesleyan University Press
1983-1984
box 4, folder 3
Yale University Press
1983
Publishing projects
1978-1984
Scope and Contents
Relates to the magazine publication project by И. Бирман and В. Чалидзе
box 4, folder 4-5
Russia quarterly magazine
1981 -1984
box 4, folder 6
Book publication
1978-1981
Scope and Contents
Correspondence relating to publication of "Secret Income of the Soviet State Budget" by I. Birman, including Sijhoff and Nordhoff
International Publisher, Pergamon Press, Praeger Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers BV, and others. Includes draft Memorandum
of Agreement
box 4, folder 8
Lectures
1977
Scope and Contents
Relates to possible lecture at the USAF academy
box 4, folder 9
Американо--советская конференция по вопросам сравнения экономики США и СССР, project
1989-1990
Scope and Contents
Letters from Д. Язов, USSR Minister of Defense, and Г. Попов, letters to Г. Попов, М. Бергер, В. Богачев, Ю. Петров, В. Селюнин,
В. Тихонов, И. Погосов, В. Рыжов, and others
box 4, folder 10
Second World Congress on Soviet and East European studies Garmish 80
1978-1980
box 4, folder 11
Estimating the size of the Soviet Economy, National Academy of Science meeting
1990-1991
Scope and Contents
Includes meeting's agenda, Birman's writings about the meeting, and draft summary of the meeting
box 4, folder 11
Stockholm conference
circa 1990
Scope and Contents
Letters to Е. Майбурд, Т. Корягина, В. Тихонов, В. Селюнин, Н. Шмелев, and Л. Великанова
Speeches and Writing
1974-1997, undated
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically, first Russian then English titles within the same year
box 6, folder 1
"Лицемерие-советский вариант
undated
Scope and Contents
Holograph draft
box 6, folder 1
"Разговор"
undated
Scope and Contents
Holograph draft
box 6, folder 1
"Технология советского плана"
undated
box 6, folder 1
"Военные расходы СССР"
undated
Scope and Contents
Report plan. Includes Birman's CV
box 6, folder 1
"Questions"
undated
Scope and Contents
In English and Russian
box 6, folder 2
"О некоторых вопросах использования экономико-математических методов в СССР
1974
box 6, folder 2
План (теория и практика)
1974-1975
Scope and Contents
For General Electric. Includes Congressional Record, Proceedings, and Debates of the 102d Congress, First Session
box 6, folder 2
"Три драмы Нобелевского лауреата"
1975
Scope and Contents
Russian and English versions ("The Three Dramas of Nobel Laureate")
box 6, folder 3
"Как это было проделано"
circa 1975
Scope and Contents
Holograph. Includes clipping
box 6, folder 3
Recollections
circa 1975
Scope and Contents
In Russian. Incomplete (pp. 1-30; 51-56)
box 6, folder 3
"Prospects for the Soviet Economy"
1975
Scope and Contents
Seminar notes (Russian Research Center, Harvard University)
box 6, folder 4
Ответы на вопросы Tempo and Mr. Watkins
circa 1976
Scope and Contents
Preliminary draft. Includes "Proposed Analysis of Soviet Construction Statistics)
box 6, folder 4
"Процесс выработки и принятия решений в СССР"
circa 1976
Scope and Contents
Includes unidentified letter of 1976
box 6, folder 4
Заметки о XXV съезде КПСС
1976
box 6, folder 4
"To Trade or not to Trade?"
1976
Scope and Contents
Translated into English by Marianne J. May. Includes the original text in Russian ("Торговать?")
box 6, folder 5
Foreign Service Institute, US State Department, lectures
1976-1977
box 6, folder 5
"Планирование и использование капвложений"
1977
Scope and Contents
At John Hopkins University
box 6, folder 6
Перечитывая "Теленка" : Литературно-политические заметки
circa 1979
Scope and Contents
Regarding "Бодался теленок с дубом" Александра Солженицына
box 6, folder 6
"С буржуями и без"
circa 1979
Scope and Contents
Review of the book by И. Ефимов "Без буржуев"
box 6, folder 6
"Contemporary Soviet Society: A Study Based on the Third Soviet Emigration"
1979
box 6, folder 6
"Полмиллиона миллионеров"
circa 1980
box 6, folder 6
"Хирург, архиепископ, человек"
1980
Scope and Contents
Review of the book by М. Поповский "Жизнь и житие Войно-Ясенецкого, архиепископа и хирурга"
box 6, folder 6
"Колебания"
1980
Scope and Contents
Typescript. Includes draft
box 6, folder 7
"Докатились"
circa 1980
Scope and Contents
Includes draft
box 6, folder 7
"Экономическая ситуация в СССР"
circa 1980
Scope and Contents
Typescript. Includes holograph draft
box 6, folder 8
"The Soviet Authorities and Sakharov" ("The Sakharov Phenomenon")
circa 1980
Scope and Contents
Translated Into English by Dmitrii Gallik. Includes the original text in Russian.
box 6, folder 8
"Inflation and Money Supply in the Soviet Economy," with Roger A. Clarke
circa 1980
box 6, folder 8
"Too Much Money - the Soviet Variant of the Problem"
1980
Scope and Contents
Paper presented at the Second World Congress on Soviet and East European Studies (Garnish 80)
box 6, folder 9
"The History and Development of Soviet Economic Reform"
circa 1980
box 6, folder 9
"Пути истории"
1981
Scope and Contents
Interview with А. Каждан. Typescript. Published in the
Russia quarterly magazine.
box 6, folder 9
"Советологическое изучение советской экономики"
circa 1982
Scope and Contents
Typescript with holograph corrections. Includes two drafts.
box 7, folder 1
"About the Soviet Interview Project"
1983
Scope and Contents
Includes "Contemporary Soviet Society: А Study Based on the Third Soviet Emigration" (1979)
box 7, folder 1
"Разговор с Б. Г. Заксом"
1983
box 7, folder 1
"Productivity in the Soviet Economy, 1950-1984"
circa 1985
box 7, folder 2
"Экономические реформы в СССР"
circa 1985
Scope and Contents
Includes Essay "А была ли реформа?" published in the
We magazine
box 7, folder 2
"Russia: An Alarming Progress Report," with Donald Jameson
1992 September 11
Scope and Contents
Published by H.C Wainwright & Co., Economics, Inc.
box 7, folder 2
Untitled
1997 April
Scope and Contents
Presentation at Parliamentary Hearings. In Russian
box 7, folder 3
Reviews of I. Birman's books
1982-1985
Photographs
circa 1985-1995, undated
Scope and Contents
Includes list with brief descriptions of people on the photographs.
box 7, folder 4, envelope 1
Prints 1-6
1985, 1988, undated
Scope and Contents
6 prints depicting И. Бирман with A. Бирман, проф А. Корбут, A. Рубин, M. Агурскиий, А. Мандель, and Peter Wiles
box 7, folder 4, envelope 2
Prints 7-12
undated
Scope and Contents
6 prints depicting И. Бирман, А. Бабенышев (Максудов), В.Полтерович, С. Иванов, В. Головской, and John Birman
box 7, folder 4, envelope 3
Prints 13-18
undated
Scope and Contents
6 prints depicting И. Бирман with В. Стороженко, Stephen Williams. М. Бергер, Ю. Маркиш, проф. М. Фрейдлин, and Фатима Салказанова
box 7, folder 4, envelope 4
Prints 19- 20, 20а -24
undated
Scope and Contents
6 prints depicting И. Бирман with A. Бирман, Е. Иванов, Л. Шур, В. Гуревич, Е. Е.Вахтангов, Maria Levine, В. Генс, В. Петухов,
and Г. Нусинович
box 7, folder 4, envelope 5
Prints 25-30
undated
Scope and Contents
6 prints depicting И. Бирман with А. Брудно, Э. Каган, И. Лахман, П. Литвинов, П. Ильин, and И. Каганович
box 7, folder 4, envelope 6
Prints 31-36
undated
Scope and Contents
6 prints depicting И. Бирман with Р. Энтов, John Glad, L. Glad, and Mihajlo Mihajlov; with О. Лацис, Phil Barringer, Ю. Овсиенко,
and В. Бусыгин
box 7, folder 4, envelope 7
Prints 37-42
undated
Scope and Contents
6 prints depicting И. Бирман with В. Белкин, Фатима Салказанова, В. Надеин, акад. O. Ларичев, Э. Ершов, and Aleksandras Štromas
box 7, folder 4, envelope 8
Prints 43-49
undated
Scope and Contents
6 prints depicting И. Бирман with В. Буковский, Л. Григорьев. К. Любарский, М. Шухгалтер; with проф. Е. Ясин and В. Волконский;
with Т. Заславская, and В. Селюнин
box 7, folder 5
One print depicting I. Birman
undated
Printed Matter
1998, undated
Arrangement
Arranged by format and then chronologically within
box 7, folder 5
Yarbuch der Wirtshaft Osteuropas magazine
undated
box 8, folder 1
Clippings
1986, 1999-2002
Audiovisual Materials
1998-2009, undated
Sound Recordings
1998-2007
undated
box MC28
"За и против", "Косово"
1999
Physical Description: 1 compact sound cassette
box MC28
Радио России
1998
Physical Description: 1 compact sound cassette
box MC28
Sevaoborot
2003 January 11
Physical Description: 1 compact sound cassette
Scope and Contents
BBC program by Сева Новгородцев.
box MC29
Бирман И.
undated
Physical Description: 1 CD sound disc
box MC29
Бирман И.
2007 June 19
Physical Description: 1 CD sound disc
box MC29
Interview of I. Birman by the RTV channel (Russia)
2009 December 29
Physical Description: 2 DVDs