This collection covers World War I and the immediate aftermath impacting America's role in the Russian Civil War and early relations between the United States and Soviet Union. Additional topics include Allied attempts to reopen the Eastern Front after the collapse of Imperial Russia, the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and U.S. policy toward Russia at the Paris Peace Conference.
Judaica Digital Collections database includes eight resources from the State Archives of Kyiv Oblast', spanning the mid-19th and early 20th centuries:
Imperial Russia’s Asian march coincided with a revolution in intelligence. Gathering and analyzing such intelligence also became much more comprehensive, almost encyclopedic. It entailed not only the armed forces and the terrain of all potential adversaries, but also political, economic, ethnographic, and much other data.
The collection Archive series, 1651-1917 contains the following parts:
This database provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance, and social movements. The collection includes videos, printed materials, and images from a variety of time periods, regions, and topics, including material on the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the Prague Spring.
Commercial and Trade Relations Between Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and the U.S., 1910-1963 is a primary source collection relating to the commercial and trade relations between Russia and the United States beginning in the Tsarist Russia period and extending through the Khrushchev period. It provides valuable information for longitudinal study of economic relations between Russia/the Soviet Union and the United States.
The Russian Civil War and American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, 1918-1920 is a collection of war diaries, operations reports, subject files, important letters, memorandums, cablegrams, maps, charts, and other kinds of records relating to the activities of the post-WWI American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia. Topics covered include economic, political, and social conditions in Siberia; operations of the Siberian expedition; Japanese-American relations; and more.
The British Foreign Office Records of General Correspondence for Russia is the basic collection of documents for studying Anglo-Russian relations during this period of change in domestic and international affairs. This collection consists of the bound volumes of correspondence for the 1883 to1886 period.
Documents consist mostly of correspondence between the British Foreign Office, various British missions and consulates in the Russian Empire and the Tsarist government and later the Provisional Government. Topics covered include British subjects in Russia, intelligence reports on Russian military activities and Bolshevik political activities, and British relations with imperial Russia's bordering countries including Finland, Germany, Afghanistan, and Turkestan.
The Stalin Digital Archive (SDA) contains documents from Fond 558. These comprise Stalin’s personal papers dating from 1889 to 1952, and cover, among other topics, industrialization and agricultural collectivization, the Great Purges, Soviet foreign policy, the Cold War, and Stalin’s personal relations with Western intellectuals and Soviet officials. Also included are 300 volumes from Stalin’s personal library containing his marginalia, as well as the series Annals of Communism published by Yale University Press (YUP).
Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952) joined the staff of the University of Toronto's Department of Political Economy in 1927, rising to the post of Head of the Department by 1937. From 1947 until his death in 1952, Innis assumed the additional responsibility of Dean of the School of Graduate Studies. Innis' international reputation as an economist took him on the lecture circuit. The most prestigious of these was the British tour in 1948 of the Beit, Cust and Stamp lecture series in Oxford, Nottingham, and the University of London respectively.