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Title: Eugene Lyons papers
Date (inclusive): 1919-1981
Collection Number: 85006
Creator:
Lyons, Eugene, 1898-1985
Collection Size:
17 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 10 envelopes, 2 albums, 6 phonotapes, 13 phonorecords
(10 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, pamphlets, other printed matter, photographs, and sound
recordings, relating primarily to conditions in the Soviet Union under communism, the
international communist movement, and the career of Herbert Hoover.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives
[Identification of item], Eugene Lyons papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1985.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Communism.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--History.
United States--Politics and government.
United States--Foreign relations.
Journalists.
Phonotapes.
Phonorecords.
| 1898, July 1 | Born, Uzlian, Russia |
| 1907 | Arrived in the United States |
| 1917-18 | Student, College City of New York |
| 1918 | Private, U.S. Army |
| 1918-19 | Student, Columbia University |
| 1919 | Naturalized as United States citizen |
| 1920 | Employee, Erie Dispatch (Pennsylvania) |
| 1922 | Employee, Boston Telegram |
| 1922-23 | Editor, Soviet Russia Pictorial |
| 1923-27 | Assistant Director, Tass Agency |
| 1927 | Author, The Life and Death of Sacco and Vanzetti |
| 1928-1934 | United Press correspondent in the Soviet Union |
| 1934 | Author, Six Soviet Plays |
| 1935 | Author, Moscow Carousel |
| 1935-39 | Member, Ames and Norr Public Relations |
| 1937 | Author, Assignment in Utopia |
| 1937 | Editor, We Cover the World |
| 1939-1944 | Editor, The American Mercury |
| 1940 | Author, Stalin, Czar of all the Russias |
| 1941 | Author, The Red Decade |
| 1944-45 | Editor, Pageant |
| 1946-1968 | Editor, The Readers Digest |
| 1948 | Author, Our Unknown Ex-President, a Portrait of Herbert Hoover |
| 1951-52 | President, American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia |
| 1953 | Author, Our Secret Allies: The Peoples of Russia |
| 1959 | Author, The Herbert Hoover Story |
| 1964 | Author, Herbert Hoover: a Biography |
| 1966 | Author, David Sarnoff: a Biography |
| 1967 | Author, Workers' Paradise Lost: 50 Years of Soviet Communism: a Balance Sheet |
| 1985, January 10 | Died, New York City |