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Author/Creator:Barghoorn, Frederick Charles, 1911-
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Title:Frederick Charles Barghoorn papers, 1938-1988 (inclusive).
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Physical Description:3.5 linear ft.
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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Yale Holdings
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Notes:Gift of Steven Barghoorn, 1994.
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Organization:The papers are arranged in three series: I. Yale University Files. II. Professional Files. III. Subject Files.
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Access and use:Restricted files relating to faculty searches and student recommendations in Box 8 will be open January 1, 2060. Copyright has been transferred to Yale University for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Additional information is provided in the finding aid.
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Biographical / Historical note:Frederick Charles Barghoorn was born in New York City in 1911. He received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College in 1934 and his doctorate in history from Harvard in 1941. In the 1940s, Barghoorn served in the Division of East European Affairs in the State Department and in the press section of the U.S. embassy in Moscow. From 1949 to 1951, he headed a federal project interviewing Soviet defectors to analyze their government and society. From 1947 until his retirement in 1980, Barghoorn was a professor in Yale's political science department. He also taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia University. In 1963, Soviet officials jailed Barghoorn in Moscow on espionage charges and released him only under pressure from President John F. Kennedy. Frederick Barghoorn died in Woodbridge, Connecticut, in 1991.
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Summary:The bulk of the material is from the 1960s and early 1970s, and includes correspondence, departmental and organizational files, research files, and publications. There is little mention of Barghoorn's arrest by the Soviet government in 1963, except for a brief summary of the incident in a letter to Pat Briggs dated November 10, 1965.
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Indexes/Finding aids:The finding aid is available in the repository and on the Internet.
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Cite as:Frederick Charles Barghoorn Papers. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:Barghoorn, Frederick Charles, 1911-
Lane, Robert Edwards.
Mickiewicz, Ellen Propper.
Yale University. Department of Political Science.
College teachers--United States.
Communism--Soviet Union--History.
Dissenters--Soviet Union.
Education, Higher--United States.
Nationalism--Soviet Union.
Opposition (Political science)
Political science--Study and teaching.
Political scientists--United States.
Propaganda, Communist--Soviet Union.
Propaganda, Soviet.
Sovietologists--United States.
Teachers--United States.
Totalitarianism.
Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.
Europe, Eastern--Study and teaching.
Soviet Union--Economic policy.
Soviet Union--Foreign relations.
Soviet Union--Intellectual life.
Soviet Union--Politics and government.
Soviet Union--Study and teaching.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1074951