Reminiscences of Boris Basil Shishkin, 1957

Biographical Note

Economist

Scope and Contents

Early life and education in Russia; World War I and the Russian Revolution; flight to Istanbul; Columbia University during the late 1920s; role of American Federation of Labor in New Deal legislation; American Federation of Labor conventions, 1933-1936; impressions of William Green, John L. Lewis, Maurice Tobin, Matthew Woll, and other labor leaders

Subjects

• American Federation of Labor.
• Columbia University.
• Economists--Interviews.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Shaughnessy, Donald F., interviewer.
• Shishkin, Boris, 1906-1986--Interviews.
• Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975