Correspondence, documents, manuscripts and typescripts of writings, paintings, photographs, audio tapes, and printed materials. The collection chiefly consists on the Group's writings and research materials.
Manuscripts and publications produced by the Research Program on the USSR (1950-1955). The RP-USSR, based at Columbia University, commissioned manuscripts by exiled Soviet intellectuals on various aspects of the history and development of the USSR.
This was published by the RP-USSR in 1953 as the introduction to Lawrynenko's, "Ukrainian communism and Soviet Russian policy toward the Ukraine: An annotated bibliography, 1917-1953."
The papers comprise correspondence, writings, memoirs, personal documents, research notes, printed materials, photographs of Iurii Shevel'ov, prominent scholar, Slavic linguist, philologist, literary historian, and literary critic, longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University.
The materials in this collection document personal and professional life of Jurij Lawrynenko (1905-1987), prominent literature figure Ukrainian emigration, as well as the formation and development of the literary, cultural, and social life of the Ukrainian diaspora in Germany and the United States. They are extremely valuable resources for research on Ukrainian literature, journalism, publishing, and political movements, and on the history of Ukrainian emigration in the 20th century.