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Title: Pavel Mikhaǐlovich Litvinov papers
Date (inclusive): 1933-2011
Collection Number: 2016C25
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian and English
Physical Description:
6 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(4.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoirs and other writings, notes, printed matter, and photographs relating to political prisoners, civil
rights and dissent in the Soviet Union, and to Russian émigré affairs.
Creator:
Litvinov, Pavel Mikhaĭlovich, 1940-
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], Pavel Mikhaǐlovich Litvinov papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library &
Archives.
Born in 1940, Pavel Litvinov is a physicist, writer, and Soviet-era dissident. He is the grandson of Maksim (Maxim) Litvinov,
the former Russian minister of foreign affairs (1930-1939) and ambassador to the United States (1941-1943).
Litvinov was raised among the Soviet elite, but after Stalin's death in 1953, he became disillusioned with the Soviet system
after witnessing the return of family friends from the labor camps. In his twenties, he became acquainted with a group of
intellectuals who were following the show-trials of the writers Andrei Siniavskii and Iulii Daniel'. Litvinov was one of eight
participants in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; the participants raised banners
in Czech and Russian supporting Czechoslovak independence. The KGB promptly arrested the protesters and put them on trial
two months later. Litvinov was sentenced to five years' exile in Siberia.
In 1974, Litvinov and his family immigrated to the United States, where he taught physics and mathematics at a boarding school
in Tarrytown, New York, until his retirement in 2006.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Pavel Litvinov papers include biographical material, correspondence, memoirs and other writings, notes, printed matter,
and photographs relating to political prisoners, civil rights and dissent in the Soviet Union, and Russian émigré affairs.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Dissenters -- Soviet Union
Political prisoners -- Soviet Union
Civil rights -- Soviet Union