Mark Popovskii papers, 1980-1986

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Series IV: Writings

Typescripts and photocopies of typescripts for books, articles and lectures by Popovskii, book galleys, article clippings. Often with manuscript edits and notes by the author.


Subseries IV.1: Science and Ethics in USSR

Arranged Chronologically



Box 9 Folder 1 Vnachale Bylo Delo... Moscow, USSR, 1976, Galleys,


Box 9 Folder 2 Vsgliad S Berega, Moscow, USSR, [1976], Edited Typescript,


Box 9 Folder 3 Chest' Uchenogo, Moscow, USSR, [1976], Mock-up copy,


Box 9 Folder 4 Speeches and Lectures, USSR, 1960s - 1970s


Box 9 Folder 5 Speeches and Lectures, 1978 - 1985


Box 9 Folder 6 Speeches and Lectures on Science in Gorbachev's and Post-Soviet Russia, 1987 - 1994


Box 9 Folder 7 Chetvertyi Element (unfinished), New York, NY, n.d.


Box 9 Folder 8 Vo Chto Verit Sovetskii Uchenyi, New York, NY, Sep. 1981


Box 9 Folder 9 Nauka I Vera - Opasnoeedinenie, New York, NY, Jan .1986


Box 9 Folder 10 Verit Li V Boga Sovetskii Uchenyi, New York, NY, 1987


Box 9 Folder 11 Uchenyi, Religiia I Perestroika, New York, NY, Jun. 1988


Box 9 Folder 12 Nauka V Epokhu Gorbacheva, New York, NY, Apr. 1989


Box 9 Folder 13 Begut (scientists leaving USSR), New York, NY, Feb. 1990


Box 9 Folder 14 Ukhtomskii, Aleksei Taina Akademika Alekseia Ukhtomskogo, New York, NY, 1992



Box 10 Folder 1 Uchenye - Tozhe Liudi, New York, NY, Mar. 1992


Box 10 Folder 2 Olsuf'ev, Nikolai Predatel'stvo, New York, NY, Jul. 1994


Box 10 Folder 3 Sakharov, Andrei Moi Sakharov, New York, NY, May-96


Subseries IV.2: Voino-Iasenetskii


Box 10 Folder 4 Voino-Iasenetskii, Valentin Fedorovich Life and Works of Voino-Iasenetskii - Book Proposal and Chapter 7, New York, NY, n.d.


Box 10 Folder 5 Voino-Iasenetskii, Valentin Fedorovich Krest I Skal'pel, New York, NY, n.d.


Box 10 Folder 6 Voino-Iasenetskii, Valentin Fedorovich Moi Liubimyi Geroi, New York, NY, n.d.


Box 10 Folder 7 Voino-Iasenetskii, Valentin Fedorovich Miscellaeous on Voino-Iasenetskii , New York, NY, 1980 - 1989


Subseries IV.3: Haffkine


Box 10 Folder 8 Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Articles about Haffkine, New York, NY, 1980s


Box 10 Folder 9 Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Tri Zhizni Doctora Khavkina , New York, NY, 1989, Edited Typescript,


Box 10 Folder 10 Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Tri Zhizni Doctora Khavkina, New York, NY, 1989

[Copy of 10 - 9]


Subseries IV.4: Tolstoy and Tolstovtsy

Arranged chronologically



Box 38 Folder 1 - 2 Tolstoy, Leo Kuda Devalis' Tolstovtsy , Moscow, USSR, 1977

[OVERSIZED]



Box 10 Folder 11 Tolstoy, Leo Russkie Muzhiki Rasskazyvaiut, Moscow, USSR; Washington, DC; New York, NY, 1977 - 1981, Edited typescript - photocopy,

[Part of original 1987 gift by Popovskii.]


Box 10 Folder 12 Tolstoy, Leo Eto Tvoi Deti, Lev Tolstoy, New York, NY, 1980 - 1981, Edited Typescript,


Box 10 Folder 13 Tolstoy, Leo Lectures on Tolstovtsy, 1980 - 1984


Subseries IV.5: Religion

Arranged chronologically


Box 10 Folder 14 Men', Aleksandr Za Chto Traviat Otsa Aleksandra Menia, 1984


Box 10 Folder 15 Nash Khram, [1985]


Box 10 Folder 16 Bog, My I Svoboda Voli, Dec. 1985


Box 10 Folder 17 Chuvstvo Tserkvi, 1987


Box 10 Folder 18 Men', Aleksandr Vot Kogo Ubili, 1990


Box 10 Folder 19 Krasnaia Dver', Jul. 1991


Box 10 Folder 20 Kniga I Luidi (on Bible), Oct. 1991


Box 10 Folder 21 Vera, Tserkov' I Moia Professiia, [1994]


Box 10 Folder 22 Meerson-Aksenov, Mikhail Prochnaia Pozitsiia Mezhdu Nebom I Zemlei (with notes), [1994]


Box 10 Folder 23 Mne Tyt Teplo, 1996


Subseries IV.6: Sex in USSR



Box 11 Folder 1 - 2 On, Ona I Sovetskii Rezhim, Version 1, New York, NY, [1980 - 1983], Edited Typescript,


Box 11 Folder 3 - 4 On, Ona I Sovetskii Rezhim, Version 2 (Chapter 12 missing), New York, NY, [1980 - 1983], Edited Typescript,


Box 11 Folder 5 On, Ona I Sovetskii Rezhim - notes., New York, NY, [1980 - 1983]



Box 21 Folder 4- 5 On, Ona I Sovetskaya Vlast', New York, NY, n.d., Edited Typescript - photocopy,

[This version was part of original 1987 gift by Popovskii. Filed with research materials.]



Box 12 Folder 1 Love and Sex Soviet Style - Book proposal and translation of selected chapters, New York, NY, [1983]


Box 12 Folder 2 Love and Sex Soviet Style - typescript of Chapters 6, 8, 14, New York, NY, n.d.


Box 12 Folder 3 Love and Sex Soviet Style - typescript of Chapters 6 - 14, New York, NY, n.d.


Box 12 Folder 4 Articles and Lectures on Sex in USSR, 1982 - 1990


Subseries IV.7: Russians in America

Arranged chronologically



Box 13 Folder 1 Na Drugoi Storone Planety (collection of stories), New York, NY, n.d., Edited Typescript,


Box 13 Folder 2 Zvorykin, Vladimir Vstrecha s Ottsom Televidenia, Nov. 1980


Box 13 Folder 3 Industria Obol'sheniia, [1985]


Box 13 Folder 4 Na Drugoi Storone Planety, New York, NY, 1986, Edited Typescript,


Box 13 Folder 5 Zvorykin, Vladimir V Gostiakh U Izobretatelia Televiden'ia, 1987


Box 13 Folder 6 Lectures on Russians in America, 1987 - 1996


Box 13 Folder 7 Katsenelinboigen, Aron J. Dve Zhizni Arona Katsenelinboigena, Sep. 1988


Box 13 Folder 8 Kalina, Aleksandr Nash Chelovek V Kalifornii, Oct. 1988


Box 13 Folder 9 Sloenyi Pirog Na Kruglom Stole, Jan. 1989


Box 13 Folder 10 Nashi V Chicago, Nov. 1989


Box 13 Folder 11 V Poiskah Doinykh Korov (on perestroika and emigration), [1990]


Box 13 Folder 12 My Amerikantsy - No Kakie (on 3rd Wave of Russian Emigration), Jul. 1990


Box 13 Folder 13 America - Nash Dom (4 articles on 5th wave of emigration), Jan. - Apr. 1991


Box 13 Folder 14 A Mne Interesny Liudi, Sep. 1992


Box 13 Folder 15 Neokonchennaia Povest', Apr. 1996


Box 13 Folder 16 My Zdes' Ne Pervye (on 1st and 2nd waves of Russian Emigration), Apr. 1998


Box 13 Folder 17 Prosveshchat' Ameriku? A Pochemu By I Net. (inventors), Apr. 1998


Box 13 Folder 18 Cherniakovskii, Mitchell Kogda ia Stanu Americanskim Generalom, Jun. 1998


Box 13 Folder 19 Semeinyi Portert, New York, NY, 2000, Edited Typescript,


Subseries IV.8: Writers in Exile

Arranged chronologically



Box 14 Folder 1 Lectures on Writers in Exile, 1983 - 1994


Box 14 Folder 2 Literaturniye Koshki-Myshki, n.d.


Box 14 Folder 3 Znakom'tes' - Russkie Pisateli, n.d.


Box 14 Folder 4 Ne Zabyvat' Ushedshikh (graves of emigration), n.d.


Box 14 Folder 5 Lipkin, Semen Semenu Lipkinu - 75, 1986


Box 14 Folder 6 Dovlatov, Sergei Litsa I Maski, Mar. 1988


Box 14 Folder 7 Iazykom Tsitat, Feb. 1989


Box 14 Folder 8 Is Ameriki Vidnee, Dec. 1989


Box 14 Folder 9 Efimov, Igor' Uzhe Desiat' Let Plyvet Etot Korablik (on Hermitage publishing co.), 1991


Box 14 Folder 10 Genis, Aleksandr; Vail', Petr Pisateli I America, [1992]


Box 14 Folder 11 Rossiiskoe Pero V Amerikanskoi Chernil'nitse, Mar. 1993


Box 14 Folder 12 Dovlatov, Sergei K Voprosu o Nravstvennosti, Nov. 1993


Box 14 Folder 13 Sem' Knig Minuvshego Goda, [1994]


Box 14 Folder 14 Chetyre Knigi Odnogo Goda, Feb. 1996


Box 14 Folder 15 Nashi V Klivlende, Jul. 1996


Box 14 Folder 16 Pisateli V Mire Nechitaiushikh, Oct. 1996


Box 14 Folder 17 Brodsky, Joseph To, Chto Sokhranila Pamiat', Dec. 1996


Box 14 Folder 18 Pochemu Ia Ne Liubliu Slova Pisatel', Jun. 1997 - Dec. 1998


Box 14 Folder 19 Gorech' I Sladost' Moei Professii, Jul. 1998


Box 14 Folder 20 Bereg, Vernis', Mar. 1999

[On oral-literary magazine Bereg, created in 1979 by Russian writers in New York.]


Subseries IV.9: Miscellaneous Writings


Box 14 Folder 21 Clippings, 1978 - 1999


Box 14 Folder 22 Book Proposals, 1978 - 1990


Box 14 Folder 23 Katsenelinboigen, Aron J.; Soifer, Valerii; Interviews by Popovskii, Jul. 1988 - 1990


Box 14 Folder 24 Interviews with Popovskii, 1981 - 1995


Box 14 Folder 25 Fadeev, Aleksandr; Stakhiv, Eugen Samoubiistvo, n.d.


Box 14 Folder 26 Nezabyvaemye, n.d.


Box 14 Folder 27 Zachem Prozaiku Stikhi, n.d.


Box 14 Folder 28 Kondratiuk, IUrii Four articles on IUrii Kondratiuk (Samuil Shinger), 1980 - 1989


Box 14 Folder 29 Voloshina, Maria Stepanovna Maria Stepanovna, 1986


Box 14 Folder 30 Piat' Stranits o Razorvannoi Tsepochke, [1992]


Box 14 Folder 31 Stranitsy Starogo Dnevnika (on Soiuz Pisatelei SSSR), [1994]


Box 14 Folder 32 Otkrovennyi Razgovor (review of letters from readers, summer 1996), Sep. 1996


Box 14 Folder 33 Da, Ia Ottuda, No... (on 200th Anniversary of Odessa), Sep. 1994 - Jun. 1997


Box 14 Folder 34 Guberman, Igor Drug - Slovo Ser'eznoe, Sep. 1997


Box 14 Folder 35 Papa, Mama I Ya, Jun. 1998


Box 14 Folder 36 Speeches, 1985 - 2000


Box 14 Folder 37 Notes and Drafts, n.d.