How Did Yaroslava Surmach Affect American Society

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During his work as an Associate Professor in Sociology from the year of 1941 until 1945 at University of Maryland, College Park, He knowingly connected to the American politics and Became friends with Historians People, during the World War II Like, Richard Hofstadter, Frank Freidel, and Ken Stampp. These Academics People collaborate on many topics and as an outcome, each wrote about many existing issues contiguous the war and how it affected American society.

He married to his Third wife, Yaroslava Surmach, one of the American Artist in Ukrainian, and lives in Rockland County, New York in 1959. Nikolas Charles their son, was born on June 19, 1960.

In August 1960, He spent his time in Cuba where he worked on developing his text Listen, Yankee.

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