Tsuyoshi Hasegawa papers, circa 1800-2017, bulk circa 1900-1950

Collection context

Summary

Creators:
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, 1941-
Abstract:
This collection contains research files generated by UCSB Professor of History Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in the course of writing books on Russian/Soviet history and the Cold War, as well as the history of the Pacific War during World War II and Soviet-Japanese relations.
Extent:
30 Linear Feet (30 cartons)
Language:
Materials are in English, Japanese, and Russian.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Tsuyoshi Hasegawa papers, UArch FacP 61. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains research files generated by UCSB Professor of History Tsuyoshi Hasegawa in the course of writing Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2005),The February Revolution, Petrograd 1917: the End of the Tsarist Regime and the Birth of Dual Power (1981; 2017), and Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd (2017).

Files mainly concern events of the first half of the 20th century and include materials on Soviet-Japanese relations, the history of the Pacific War during World War II, the social history of the Russian Revolution, and the evolution of nuclear strategy. Research materials consist primarily of notes, annotated reprints of articles, portions of monographs and other published works, as well as copies of source documents from various archives.

Also included in these papers is research material on the early 19th century Prussian Generalfeldmarschall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

Biographical / historical:

"Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (長谷川 毅 Hasegawa Tsuyoshi, born 23 February 1941, Tokyo, Japan) is an American historian specializing in modern Russian and Soviet history and the relations between Russia, Japan, and the United States. He taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was director of the Cold War Studies program, until his retirement in 2016.

Hasegawa was born in Tokyo and received his undergraduate education at Tokyo University. He studied international relations and Soviet history at University of Washington, where he earned his doctoral degree in 1969. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1976. Among his awards and fellowships are Fulbright-Hays Research Abroad (1976–77), NEH grant (2002–03), SSRC grant (2002–03), Rockefeller Belagio Center Fellowship (2011) and a Fulbright Fellowship (2012).[1]

He is known for Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2005), a revisionist study of diplomacy and the end of the Pacific War. The book won the 2005 Robert Ferrell Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Hasegawa's research also includes the political and social history of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Soviet–Japanese relations. Wikipedia 2019. "Tsuyoshi Hasegawa." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuyoshi_Hasegawa. Accessed on 21 August 2019.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, 2018.
Arrangement:

Files have been arranged into three series: 1. English language files, 2. Russian language files, 3. Japanese language files, and 4. 2021 Accession. Materials are subdivided iteratively across the first three series (1-3) by the three books represented in these papers. This is not the case for Series 4.

Physical location:
Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Materials in Japanese and Russian are unprocessed. Advance notice is required for access.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Tsuyoshi Hasegawa papers, UArch FacP 61. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062