Andree Aelion Brooks Research Files on Bluet Rabinoff
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Andree Aelion Brooks (http://www.andreeaelionbrooks.com/) is a journalist, lecturer and author, including the book Russian Dance: A True Story of Intrigue and Passion in Stalinist Moscow (2004), concerning Bluet Rabinoff (d. 1976) an American Jewish woman who lived in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s-early 1930s. The collection consists principally of research materials for this book, including FOIA material, copies of documents from various repositories, printed material, correspondence from Moscow, an autobiographical typescript by Bluet Rabinoff, and the author's correspondence with Rabinoff.
Biographical Note
Andree Aelion Brooks is a journalist, lecturer, and author. Brooks's book Russian Dance: A True Story of Intrigue and Passion in Stalinist Moscow (2004), concerns Bluet Rabinoff (d. 1976), an American Jewish woman and the wife of Max Rabinoff, a ballet and opera impresario. Bluet had an affair with Marc Cheftel, a Russian doctor and Bolshevik spy, and left her family to live with him in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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The Andree Aelion Brooks Research Files on Bluet Rabinoff consist principally of research materials for Brooks's book Russian Dance: A True Story of Intrigue and Passion in Stalinist Moscow (2004). The collection includes material accessed through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, copies of documents from various repositories, printed material, correspondence from Moscow, an autobiographical typescript by Bluet Rabinoff, and the author's correspondence with Rabinoff. Material dates from 1920 to 2009.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in the collection; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Andree Aelion Brooks were transferred to New York University in 2009 by Andree Aelion Brooks. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Collection name; Collection number; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Separated Materials
In 2009, eight audiocassettes were separated and established as the Andree Aelion Brooks Oral History Collection.
