Special Collections:

The collection contains guides to 38 regional archives with descriptions of holdings from the 17th century through the publication date. It is divided in three sections: Pre-Soviet, Ukrainian Nationalist, and Soviet. Each section provides chapters on collections devoted to regional government affairs, legal institutions, educational insitutions, police, industry, and more. The guides were published in 1958-1989.

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.

Guests book for exhibits held on the 2nd floor of Robarts Library, namely: (1991) Romanian Art & Culture; Tibetan Exhibition; (1992) - Campus Tours; Corpus Christi; (1993) Afican Studies Exhibit; Riza Bassiri Exhibit; (1993) Santeria in Cuba Exhibition; (1994) Romanian Exhibition ; Pham The Trung Exhibition; (1995) Reza Sephahdari Exhibit ; Portugueses Canadian Press in a Multicultral Society; and Heraldry and Flags Exhibit. 

The Centre for Russian and East European Studies was established at the University of Toronto in 1963 to promote the interdisciplinary study of the region. These records consist of subject files on Canadian-Soviet educational exchanges.

The Centre for Russian and East European Studies was established at the University of Toronto in 1963 to promote the interdisciplinary study of the region.

These records consist of announcements, publicity materials, course descriptions, reports, and photographs relating to the Summer Russian workshops.

Consists of sketches and graphic designs submitted to the Chair of Ukrainian Studies competition for a new graphic mark/symbol. Included is a newspaper clipping detailing the competition as well as several submissions and their explanations. 

The Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto was founded during the 1907-1908 academic year.  It was the first biochemistry department in Canada and one of the world.  George Connell served as the sixth chairman of the department from 1965 to 1970, and went on to hold major administrative positions at the University of Toronto, including president from 1984 to 1990.

The administrative files of the chair of the Department of Biochemistry, George Connell include, among many other files, material about refugee scientists from Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1969.

The collection of teaching slides of peoples and places created under the auspices of Griffith Taylor, W.C. Wilson and Donal Fulton Putnam while they were heads of the department, include views of Russia.

Notes on nursing education in England, Denmark, Switzwerland, Finland compiled by Muriel Upritchard, associate professor of nursing. 

The Chair of Hungarian Studies was created at the University of Toronto in 1978 through a fundraising initiative launched by the Canadian Hungarian community to establish a permanent teaching position in Hungarian studies.  The first Chair in Hungarian Studies was George Bisztray, who taught in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures until his retirement in 2004.

Files of George Bisztray, Hungarian Chair, covering various topics, including establishment of the chair in 1978 and other academic and administrative matters.

Records of George Bisztray, Chair of Hungarian, including annual reports to the Faculty of Arts and Science, 1978-2004, promotional programme pamphlets, personnel files, as well as correspondence concerning the Finno-Ugric Programme, the Szechenyi Society, and the Hungarian Chair.

Departmental minutes, news releases, activity files, recordings of seminars and symposiums, as well as event photographs from the office of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies. 

Originally known as the Students’ Union, the Students’ Administrative Council was established in 1901 to oversee student services and to enhance the student experience at the University of Toronto.

Among the correspondence and subject files relating to the Students' Administrative Council, are minutes of the Latvian Students' Centre Association Abroad from around 1952 to 1955.

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A digitized, fully searchable and hyperlinked repository of visual testimonies by almost 52,000 survivors of genocidal wars. The vast majority of the testimonies in the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive are from Jewish survivors of the Holocaust (1939-1945), as well as other Holocaust witnesses, rescuers, and aid providers.

Among the main subjects discussed in the interviews are geographical locations, prominent figures, names of family members and other people, prewar Jewish life, religious practice, cultural life, acts of persecution and prejudice, camps and ghettos, deportations, massacres, means of adaptation or survival, resistance, rescue and aid efforts, and postwar emigration and immigration.

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.

Holograph letters or notes (written under pseudonym Frida, Emil Bohuslav Frida) (1853-1912). In Czech. Photocopy of excerpt from book

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.

Paul Wilson has translated the works of several Czech others, including Josef Škvorecký, Vaclav Havel and Ivan Klíma.  This collection consists of manuscripts and proofs of Wilson’s translations Škvorecký, Havel, Klíma and other Czech authors. They include drafts with notes by Wilson and others, including notes from Škvorecký on Wilson’s translation of The Engineer of Human Souls.

World Communism: Pamphlets from McMaster University, 1901-1969 is a collection of un-catalogued pamphlets relating to communism, socialism, and class struggle. Topics covered include translated speeches from Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov from post-WWII China and Soviet Russia; anti-American tracts, pro-revolutionary materials, and a small number of Fidel Castro's speeches from late-1950s Cuba; and a small number of pamphlets from late-1930s/early-1940s Britain on class struggle, working conditions for labourers, Argentina’s May Revolution of 1810 against Spain, Marxism or Leninism, civil rights, and women’s rights. Some of the Cuban material is only available in French. Of interest to scholars of political science, area studies, labour studies, race studies, women and gender studies, and history.