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Title: Miron Dolot papers
Date (inclusive): 1915-2008
Collection Number: 2015C22
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Ukrainian and English
Physical Description:
22 manuscript boxes
(6.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, instructional materials, and printed matter relating to Ukrainian history and literature,
the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, and the Ukrainian émigré community.
Creator:
Dolot, Miron
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 2015.
[Identification of item], Miron Dolot papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Miron Dolot is a pseudonym of Simon Starow, a Ukrainian-American writer and professor of Slavic languages. Starow was born
in Ukraine to Ukrainian parents. His father was killed in 1919 for his loyalty to the Ukrainian Independent Republic while
Starow was an infant. Starow served in the Soviet 44th Army Infantry Division during the Soviet-Finnish War on the Ukhta Front.
He fled the Soviet Union to West Germany as a political refugee and lived in Frankfurt am Main, where he was a member of the
Ukrainian émigré press, which he took an active part in until 1949, when he immigrated to the United States. From 1952 to
1955, Starow lived in Los Angeles and worked as a language instructor for the Voluntary Training Unit of the Marine Corps
Reserve. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1954. In 1955 he moved to Monterey, California to work as Ukrainian language
instructor at the Army Language School.
Scope and Content of Collection
The materials include manuscripts and notes of Dolot's (Starow's) publications, including
Execution by Hunger on the Ukrainian genocide and famine of 1932-1933. Other topics relating to Ukrainian history include the Winter War in Finland,
the Ukrainian émigré community (especially displaced persons), Ukrainian national identity, history of Kievan Rus, Christianity
in Ukraine, Ukrainian genocide, Ukraine under the Bolsheviks and Soviet Union, and Ukrainian writers and poets. Materials
include correspondence, writings, notes, instructional materials, and printed matter, in Ukrainian, Russian, English, Finnish,
and German.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ukrainian literature
Ukrainian Americans
Ukraine -- History
Ukraine -- History -- Famine, 1932-1933
Ukraine -- Emigration and immigration