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Title: Paul Hollander papers
Date (inclusive): 1961-2006
Collection Number: 2007C23
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
23 manuscript boxes
(6.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, curricular materials, and questionnaires, relating mainly to attitudes of American intellectuals
toward communist countries and of American visitors to communist countries.
Creator:
Hollander, Paul, 1932-
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.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2007.
[Identification of item], Paul Hollander papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1932 | Born, Budapest, Hungary |
| 1956 | Left Hungary, taking up residence in Great Britain and then the United States |
| 1959 | B.A., London School of Economics |
| 1960 | M.A., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana |
| 1963 | Ph.D., Princeton University |
| 1963-1968 | Assistant professor, Department of Social Relations, Harvard University |
| 1968-2000 | Associate professor and professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
| 1973 | Author, Soviet and American Society: A Comparison |
| 1981 | Author, Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, 1928-1978 |
| 1983 | Author, The Many Faces of Socialism: Comparative Sociology and Politics |
| 1988 | Author, The Survival of the Adversary Culture: Social Criticism and Political Escapism in American Society |
| 1992 | Author, Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990 |
| 1992 | Author, Decline and Discontent: Communism and the West Today |
| 1999 | Author, Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism |
| 2002 | Author, Discontents: Postmodern and Postcommunist |
| 2006 | Author, The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries and Political Morality |
| 2009 | Author, The Only Superpower: Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism |
| 2011 | Author, Extravagant Expectations: New Ways to Find Romantic Love in America |
Scope and Content of Collection
The Paul Hollander Papers in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives consist of materials donated by Hollander in 2007,
with subsequent increments. They document only a portion of Hollander's work as a sociologist and author. This work concentrated
on the study of the political commitment of intellectuals, Western fellow travelers of the Soviet Union and other Communist
bloc countries, sources of anti-Americanism within the United States and abroad, and leftist disillusionment in the wake of
the collapse of Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
The largest volume of material in the collection is in the Research Projects and Proposals series. This series is especially
notable because of its inclusion of much sociological raw data, accumulated and used by Hollander in some of his books, but
susceptible to further analysis and use. Substantial data from five projects are included in the collection. The most voluminous
data are in the form of questionnaire responses by American visitors to the Soviet Union in 1966. Hollander made use of this
data in his book Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990 (1992) and in a journal article in Society (2007).
A second bloc of questionnaire responses on attitudes toward the United States was submitted by Canadian academics in 1989.
A third bloc of questionnaire responses on political attitudes was made by members of the conservative National Association
of Scholars in 1995.
In 1994 Hollander elicited free-form written replies from readers of an ad he placed in The Nation. American supporters of
the Soviet Union or other Communist bloc countries were invited to describe the sources of their political commitment and
how they had modified or reassessed it in the light of world events. Hollander drew upon these replies, present in the collection,
in his book The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries and Political Morality (2006). Another group of transcripts
and summaries of interviews of intellectuals from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was made about the same time, dealt
with the same questions, and is also present in the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sociology
Intellectuals -- United States
Communism and intellectuals
Americans -- Communist countries
Communist countries -- Social conditions