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Moshe Lewin Papers

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Call Number:
UPT 50 L672
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Extent:
1.7 cubic feet
Language:
English
Date:
1950-1995 (inclusive) and 1977-1995 (bulk)
Creator:
Lewin, Moshe
Abstract:
Moshe Lewin was appointed professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. He was one of the most influential scholars of Russian and Soviet history in the world. The bulk of Lewin's papers consists of correspondence covering the period from 1977 to 1995.

Moshe Lewin was born in Wilno, Poland in 1921. He graduated with his B. A. from the Tel Aviv University, Israel, in 1961 and earned his Ph.D. from Sorbonne, Paris, in 1964. He was Director of Study Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, from 1965 to 1966 and senior fellow of Columbia University from 1967 to 1968. Appointed research professor of the Birmingham University, England, in 1968, he held that position until 1978 when he came to the United States and was appointed professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. One of the most influential scholars of Russian and Soviet history in the world, Lewin authored many books, among them Russian Peasant and Soviet Power (1968), Lenin's Last Struggle (1968), Political Undercurrents in Soviet Economic Debates (1974), The Making of the Soviet System (1985), The Gorbachev Phenomenon (1988), Stalinism and the Seeds of Soviet Reform : the Debates of the 1960's (1991), Russia--USSR--Russia : the Drive and Drift of a Superstate (1995), and Stalinism and Nazism : Dictatorships in Comparison (co-edited with Ian Kershaw, 1997). He retired and was elected Professor Emeritus at Penn in 1995.

The bulk of Lewin's papers consists of correspondence covering the period from 1977 to 1995. Another major group is of files on his involvement in the convening of various conferences on Russian Studies, particularly the Conference for a comparative study of Germany and Russian in the 20th century held in Philadelphia in 1992.

The Moshe Lewin Papers are organized into four series: Book Reviews, Conferences, Correspondence, and General. All series arranged alphabetically with the first half of the Correspondence series which is arranged chronologically.

The collection was transferred to the University Archives with the records of the History Department in 1995.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center
Finding Aid Author
Kaiyi Chen
Finding Aid Date
1998
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1971-1975.
Box 1 Folder 1

Correspondence, 1990-1991.
Box 1 Folder 2
Invitation and meeting arrangements.
Box 1 Folder 3
Proposal to the German Marshall Fund of the United States, 1990.
Box 1 Folder 4
(I).
Box 1 Folder 5
(II).
Box 1 Folder 6
(III).
Box 1 Folder 7
(IV).
Box 1 Folder 8
(V).
Box 1 Folder 9
(VI).
Box 1 Folder 10
(VII).
Box 1 Folder 11

1977-1994.
Box 1 Folder 12
1978-1980.
Box 1 Folder 13
1978-1982.
Box 1 Folder 14
1981-1985.
Box 1 Folder 15
1983-1986.
Box 1 Folder 16
1984-1986.
Box 1 Folder 17
1986-1990 (I).
Box 1 Folder 18
1986-1990 (II).
Box 1 Folder 19
1987-1990.
Box 2 Folder 1
1988.
Box 2 Folder 2
1989.
Box 2 Folder 3
1991-1994 (I).
Box 2 Folder 4
1991-1994 (II).
Box 2 Folder 5
America-Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, 1983-1988.
Box 2 Folder 6
American Association of University Professors, 1985-1988.
Box 2 Folder 7
Bailes, Kendall E., 1985-1987.
Box 2 Folder 8
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1979-1988.
Box 2 Folder 9
British National Association for Soviet and East European Studies, 1981-1985.
Box 2 Folder 10
Bukharin Studies in China, 1980.
Box 2 Folder 11
Conference on Socialism and Socialist Societies, 1983.
Box 2 Folder 12
1985-1986.
Box 2 Folder 13
1987-1988.
Box 2 Folder 14
1989-1990.
Box 2 Folder 15
Conferences, 1989-1991.
Box 2 Folder 16
Fulbright-Hays Training Grants application, 1987.
Box 2 Folder 17
1978-1982.
Box 2 Folder 18
1983-1986.
Box 2 Folder 19
1987-1990.
Box 2 Folder 20
1991-1995.
Box 2 Folder 21
International Committee for Soviet and East European Studies, 1983.
Box 2 Folder 22
IREX research grant proposal, 1987-1989.
Box 2 Folder 23
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1980-1983.
Box 2 Folder 24
Letters from Israel, 1950-1960.
Box 2 Folder 25
Personal, 1971-1978.
Box 2 Folder 26
Rosenberg, William G., 1987-1988.
Box 2 Folder 28
Soviet and East European Studies, bibliography (I).
Box 2 Folder 29
Soviet and East European Studies, bibliography (II).
Box 2 Folder 30

Invitations for speeches, 1979-1988.
Box 2 Folder 31
Lectures at the University of Michigan, 1994.
Box 2 Folder 32
Teaching, Comments on graduate teaching, n.d.
Box 2 Folder 34
Teaching, Reading list on Soviet History.
Box 2 Folder 35

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