A collection of documents on the White opposition to the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1921. Included are papers of the White high command, including those of Kolchak, Savinkov, Alekseev, Kornilov and Denikin. Other sections of the collection deal with White occupation policy and governance. The collection covers the White's ineffective and oppressive response to ethnic aspirations and national independence movements.
The People's Archive was established in December 1988 on the initiative of a group of professors and students of the Moscow State Historical-Archival Institute. The archive's leading collection concerns documentation of personal origin with over 270 fonds of personal papers and family archives, most of which focus on little known individuals and include diaries, memoirs, photographs and extensive personal correspondence. The People's Archive also holds several hundred thousand letters to the editors of various newspapers and magazines that otherwise would have not been preserved.
The Office of Strategic Services and the State Department commissioned the leading scholars in international affairs and a variety of area studies to write special, top-secret reports during World War II and the Cold War. This collection contains 3,774 reports in fourteen parts. The reports are scholarly analyses of the political, historical, economic, and military origins and direction of World War II and the early years of the Cold War. The majority deal with Europe, Asia and the Soviet Union, with smaller parts devoted to the Middle east, Africa and Latin America.
The collection includes more than 600 U.S. intelligence estimates and assessments concerning the Soviet Union during the entire period of the Cold War, from 1946 to 1983. It covers all the material released by the CIA in December 1994 concerning the Soviet Union and international communism. The documents included are from the office of the Director of Central Intelligence, the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the military services intelligence units, and other organizations.
The collection contains a biographical clippings file on over 50,000 people compiled and kept for the benefit of the staff of Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty Inc., the "Red Archive." It includes a vast range of public figures from party and state officials, members of the security apparatus and military personnel to directors of enterprises, chairmen of kolkhozes and prominent scientists, artists and journalists.
The collection includes Russian pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary journals for women reproduced from the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, formerly called the Saltykovshchedrin Library. The pre-revolutionary journals covered fashion, housekeeping, handiwork and literature. The post-revolutionary journals were geared more towards the working woman and her role in the new socialist society.
The collection includes the entire Houghton Library Collection of Russian Revolutionary Literature, covering the period 1825 to 1917, and material from other sources. Most of the materials were published abroad or by underground presses inside Russia and includes more than 1,000 titles by both anonymous and well known Russian authors. Also includes many rare Lenin pamphlets, anonymous and ephemeral pieces distributed among the workers and peasants, particularly those published immediately before and during the Revolution of 1905.
During the last two centuries of its existence, the Russian Empire clashed with Turkey no less than eight times; one of these conflicts was the disastrous Crimean War. Known to Victorian England as "The Eastern Question," these confrontations were a major feature of the era's great power struggle. The Russian general staff gathered an enormous mass of data about its Ottoman adversary.
The collection includes 5,000 scarce titles in the humanities and social sciences housed in Helsinki University Library, which was an official depository for Russian books from 1820 to 1917. This collection contains books in eight major categories:
Two series containing thirty-eight titles are indispensable to historians, economists, sociologists, political scientists, bibliographers, and literary historians, as well as those interested in Russian and Eastern culture of the past and of the present. The material is in Russian and covers the period from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. The collection includes dictionaries, bibliographies, government documents, collections of laws, and periodicals.