Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- 1938-1988
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research, with the exception of restricted files relating to faculty searches and student recommendations. These records will be open January 1, 2060.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by Frederick Charles Barghoorn has been transferred to Yale University. These materials may be used for non-commercial purposes without seeking permission from Yale University as the copyright holder. For other uses of these materials, please contact beinecke.library@yale.edu.
Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Steven Barghoorn, 1994.
Arrangement
The papers are arranged in three series: I. Yale University Files, 1953-1979, II. Professional Files, 1957-1988, III. Subject Files, 1939-1988.
Extent
3.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
- Barghoorn, Frederick Charles, 1911-
- College teachers -- United States
- Communism -- Soviet Union -- History
- Dissenters -- Soviet Union
- Education, Higher -- United States
- Europe, Eastern -- Study and teaching
- Lane, Robert Edwards
- Mickiewicz, Ellen Propper
- Nationalism -- Soviet Union
- Opposition (Political science)
- Political science -- Study and teaching
- Political scientists -- United States
- Propaganda, Communist -- Soviet Union
- Propaganda, Soviet
- Soviet Union -- Economic policy
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations
- Soviet Union -- Intellectual life
- Soviet Union -- Politics and government
- Soviet Union -- Study and teaching
- Sovietologists -- United States
- Teachers -- United States
- Totalitarianism
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration
- Yale University. Department of Political Science
- Title
- Guide to the Frederick Charles Barghoorn Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- compiled by Elizabeth Pauk
- Date
- May 1995
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
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Location
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