John Hazard letters and reports, 1934-1939.

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John Hazard letters and reports, 1934-1939.

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John Newbold Hazard (1909-1995) was the founder of the field of Soviet legal studies in the United States. The collection contains his letters from 1934 to 1939 when he was studying at the Moscow Judicial Institute and employed by the Institute of Current World Affairs and are written to Walter S. Rogers, his supervisor, and to John French, a lawyer and family friend. They provide important first-hand information about Soviet politics, culture, economics, law, relations with the United States, and religion. Also included are some of his unpublished reports on topics such as voting procedures in the Soviet Union, legal education, and the interpretation of Soviet law.

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Bates College Library, George and Helen Ladd Library

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Bates College Library, George and Helen Ladd Library

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Institute of Current World Affairs

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Headquarters in Hanover, New Hampshire. From the description of Records of the Institute of Current World Affairs, 1947-1982 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702151974 Dr. Eyler Newton Simpson, a University of Texas alumnus (B.A. 1921), worked in Mexico 1927-1928 as a field representative for the Institute of Current World Affairs. The mission of ICWA, which was founded in 1926, is the observation and study of foreign areas of contemporary significance. In...

Hazard, John N. (John Newbold), 1909-1995

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Scholar of Soviet law and professor at Columbia University. Hazard also served in the USSR branch of the Foreign Economic Administration, eventually becoming deputy director of this branch, and then director of the USSR branch of the Office of Foreign Liquidation. From the description of John N. Hazard papers, ca. 1880-1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 495524624 ...