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- 1964-1981 (Creation)
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1.2 m of textual records
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Series consists of documents relating to the writing and publishing of Clarkson’s book resulting from his Ph.D. research, The Soviet Theory of Development: India and the Third World in Marxist-Leninist Scholarship, (University of Toronto Press, 1978). It also documents his 1972 trip to India in order to do research for the book. Record types include notes, drafts, correspondence, publications, surveys, and press clippings. The bulk of this series is composed of notes, drafts and reference files.
The records are arranged into four sections. The first section comprises research notes filed general to specific, followed by correspondence (alphabetically) and then reference files Clarkson kept to aid him in his research, filed alphabetically. The second section documents his trip to India, with applications and correspondence filed at the beginning, research compiled during the trip in the middle, filed alphabetically by subject, and subject/reference files at the end, also filed alphabetically. The third section comprises drafts and edits of the manuscript for his book, filed chronologically. The fourth section documents the publication of the book as well as reviews, promotion and translations.
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File list available in PDF finding aid - see Appendix 9
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Series 23 - Education and Thesis, for related research on soviet development theory.