Foreign correspondent: Henry Shapiro in Moscow, 1933-1973

Abstract

As an American journalist in Moscow for forty years, Henry Shapiro was something of a legend in the city’s community of foreign correspondents. In 1975-1976, just two years after Shapiro had retired, Alfred Erich Senn, then a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, recorded Shapiro’s stories about his work in the Soviet Union. Published here for the first time, these reminiscences offer a unique eyewitness account of Soviet life from the time of Josef Stalin to the time of Leonid Brezhnev.