Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Hollander, Paul, 1932-
- Abstract:
- Writings, correspondence, curricular materials, and questionnaires, relating mainly to attitudes of American intellectuals toward communist countries and of American visitors to communist countries.
- Extent:
- 23 manuscript boxes (6.6 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Paul Hollander papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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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.
- Biographical / historical:
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Date Event 1932 Born, Budapest, Hungary1956 Left Hungary, taking up residence in Great Britain and then the United States1959 B.A., London School of Economics1960 M.A., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana1963 Ph.D., Princeton University1963-1968 Assistant professor, Department of Social Relations, Harvard University1968-2000 Associate professor and professor, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst1973 Author, Soviet and American Society: A Comparison1981 Author, Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, 1928-19781983 Author, The Many Faces of Socialism: Comparative Sociology and Politics1988 Author, The Survival of the Adversary Culture: Social Criticism and Political Escapism in American Society1992 Author, Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-19901992 Author, Decline and Discontent: Communism and the West Today1999 Author, Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism2002 Author, Discontents: Postmodern and Postcommunist2006 Author, The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries and Political Morality2009 Author, The Only Superpower: Reflections on Strength, Weakness, and Anti-Americanism2011 Author, Extravagant Expectations: New Ways to Find Romantic Love in America - Acquisition information:
- Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2007.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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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.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Paul Hollander papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563