Book VII Print 98: Student protesting visit by Soviet Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan

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Title: Book VII Print 98: Student protesting visit by Soviet Vice Premier Anastas Mikoyan
Creator: From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Contributor: From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C.
Published / Created: 1960 February 5
Description: Unarmed student protestors as they protest Anastas Mikoyan's presence in Cuba and his depositing of a floral offering to José Martí in Havana's Central Park. Frames 7-8 show them resisting police and non-uniformed militiamen's efforts to eject them from the park. Frame 11 shows a policeman guarding the Soviet emissary's floral offering as he pulls a gun on the students, as do civilian-dressed underground security agents standing around him. See also Prints 29, 41, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 80, 83, 92, 93, 101, 102, 106 and Contact Book VIII; for images related to Mikoyan's floral offering and related anti-Soviet student protest, see Prints 76, 77, 78, 81, 95 and 96.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew St. George in 1969 and from David C. Stone in 1970. Gift of Adolfas Mekas, 2010. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, 2016.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English
Spanish

Repository

Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 650

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Container / Volume

Box 5, folder 541

Access: Public
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Citation: Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.