15/35/57 Guide to the Boris I. Balinsky Memoir Boris I. Balinsky Memoir

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Guide to the Boris I. Balinsky Memoir 1988 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Boris I. Balinsky Memoir 1988 15/35/57 Balinsky, Boris Ivan, 1905- 0.20 English University of Illinois Archives
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Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Displaced Persons Entomology Ukraine Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- History and Geography Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- Politics and Government Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- Science and Technology
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Scope and Contents

Typewritten 341 page memoir of Boris Ivan Balinsky (1905- ), including recollections of his early life in Kiev and Irpen; family and relatives; the Russian civil war (1917-21); the College of Paul Galahan; appointments and research in embryology and histology; research on newts, stoneflies and mice; the Omelchenko Biological Institute; the Ukranian Academy of Science; the Kiev University; summer excursion to the Crimea and the Caucasus; scientific colleagues; the Communist Party; NKVD raids and trials; the imprisonment of his wife Katia (1937-39); military service (1935); World War II and the German occupation of Kharkov and Kiev; and emigration to Poznan, Berlin, Tubingen, Heidelberg and Munchen (Munich); second marriage to Elizabeth Stengel (1947); research at the Institute of Animal Genetics in Edinburgh (1947-49); and departure for Johannesburg (1949).

Detailed List of Contents id18067 1 1 Introduction, pp. A-B Title:

Boris Balinsky Memoirs (Digital Surrogates)

id18068 1 2 Chaper 1: Balinsky and Radzimovsky Families, Childhood Scope and Contents

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id18069 1 3 Travels, Irpen, pp. 16-26, 1913-17 id18070 1 4 Russian Revolution and Civil War, pp. 27-43 id18071 1 5 Music, Schooling, Irpen, ARA, Home Life, pp. 44-65 id18072 1 6 Scientific Work, pp. 66-78 id18073 1 7 Syngayevsky Family, pp. 79-97 id18074 1 8 Kiev, Entomology, Trouble with Communists, Family Matters, Caucasus Again, pp. 98-115 id18075 1 9 Caucasus, Vania (1934), Army Service, Theatre, pp. 116-136 1932-34 id18076 1 10 Prosperity, pp. 137-155 1935-37 id18077 1 11 Katia's Imprisonment, pp. 156-183 1937-39 id18078 1 12 War, German Occupation of Kiev (1942-43), Katia's Death, Leaving Kiev, pp. 184-245 1939-41 id18079 1 13 Life in Germany, Posen, Berlin, Tubingen, Peace, and Displaced Persons, pp. 246-289 id18080 1 14 Heidelberg, Munich, UNPRA, pp. 290-305 id18081 1 15 Stengel and Gruber Families, Elizabeth, pp. 306-315 id18082 1 16 Scotland, pp. 316-341