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  • Title: Leften S. Stavrianos papers
    Date (inclusive): 1942-1963
    Collection Number: 73088
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: In English and Greek
    Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes (2.1 Linear Feet)
    Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes (2.1 Linear Feet)
    Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes (2.1 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Writings, press releases, press translations and digests, reports, memoranda, clippings, and pamphlets, relating to political and military developments in Greece and Cyprus, especially during the Greek civil war period, 1944-1949. Includes material collected by a member of the Allied Mission for Observing Greek Elections of March 31, 1946
    Creator: Stavrianos, Leften Stavros

    Access

    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.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1973.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Leften Stavros Stavrianos Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    Stavrianos, Leften Stavros 1913-

    1913, Feb. 5 Born, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
    1937 Ph.D., Clark University
    1937-38 Lecturer, Queens University
    1939 Royal Society of Canada traveling fellow
    1939-1946 Instructor, then Assistant Professor, Smith College
    1944 Author, Balkan Federation
    1944-1945 Research and analysis branch, Office of Strategic Services
    1946-1956 Associate Professor, Northwestern University
    1951-1952 Guggenheim Fellow
    1952 Author, Greece: American Dilemma and Opportunity
    1953-1954 Ford Faculty Fellow
    1956-1973 Professor of History, Northwestern University
    1958 Author, The Balkans Since 1453
    1962 Author, A Global History of Man
    1966 Author, The World Since 1500
    1970 Author, The World to 1500
    1971 Author, Man's Past and Present
    1971-1972 Fellow, East-West Center, Hawaii
    1972-1973 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
    1973- Professor of History, Emeritus, Northwestern University

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Greece -- Foreign relations -- United States
    United States -- Foreign relations -- Greece
    Greece -- History -- Civil War, 1944-1949
    Elections -- Greece
    Labor unions -- Greece
    Cyprus -- Politics and government
    Greece -- Politics and government -- 1935-1967