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Description
Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, serial issues, clippings, other printed matter, photographs, sound recordings,
and motion picture film relating to political and cultural conditions in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Soviet and Eastern
European dissidents, Russian and Eastern European literature, post-World War II international relations, and the nature and
history of communism and Marxian theory. Includes manuscripts submitted to
Survey for publication, correspondence with contributors, and financial and other records of the journal.
Background
Leopold Labedz was born on January 22, 1920, in Simbirsk, Russia, but spent most of his childhood in Warsaw, where both of
his parents were well-respected physicians. Labedz studied at the Kreczmara Gymnasium and subsequently, in 1937, continued
his education at the University of Warsaw. By mid-1938, he had relocated to Paris to study medicine at the Sorbonne. The exposure
to French culture quickly shifted his interests from medicine to the humanities and to political philosophy in particular.
However, the events of World War II stalled Labedz's academic pursuits.
Extent
140 manuscript boxes, 5 oversize boxes
(64.2 Linear Feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Availability
Box FH9 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of 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.