Special Collections:

The papers include correspondence between Jan Drabek, Josef Škvorecký, Zdena Salivarová, and Lumír Salivar, concerning 68 Publishers, Czech writers in exile, and Czech publishing and translating. The letters provide information regarding surreptitious funding being given by several organizations to Czech banned writers, and the outing of Czech cultural figures supporting Bolshevik organizations. References are also made to author and President Václav Havel, Nobel laureate Jaroslav Seifert, and filmmaker Miloš Forman.

The systematic card catalogue of the Documentation Office for East European Law, University of Leiden

Scott Eddie (1935- ) is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Toronto, where he has taught since 1971. He is the author of three books and several dozen articles and book chapters resulting from his research on the economic history of Central and Eastern Europe.

The papers include records relating to the appointment of Chair of Ukrainian Studies.

The collection includes 18th-century Russian publications, listed in the catalogue below (see link). It is a valuable source for the historical, political, social and intellectual study of 18th century Russia. It also includes non-Russian literature published in Russia in the 18th century and is a useful source for the study of Russian science, theatre, language, and the history of printing.

ACCESS: Consult the catalog link below to locate titles with their reference numbers. Then, search the finding aid (pdf) by reference number to identify which microfilm reel carries the title you need. Request reels in Media Commons by providing staff with the call number for the collection, the title of the work, and reel number.
 

Two scrapbooks compiled by Jabez Henry Elliott, professor of the History of Medicine, documenting his attendance at the 10 and 11th International Congresses on the History of Medicine that were held in Madrid and Toledo, Spain in 1935 and in Yugoslavia in 1938, respectively. Elliott was sent as the representative for the University of Toronto. The first scrapbook contains programmes, a running typed report on the conference, press coverage, annotated photographs, conference pamphlets and brochures (including one on the history of medicine). The second scrapbook includes his report to President Cody on the conference . It also contains tourist brochures and maps of the period, postcards and original photographs of sites throughout Yugoslavia including Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Mostar and Dubrovnik. Also includes memorabilia such as invitations and programmes attended by Elliott during his stay. 

[miscellaneous papers]

Finland: Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to Internal Affairs is a collection primarily of instructions to and dispatches from U.S. diplomatic and consular staff regarding political, economic, military, and social events in Finland. Documents included in the collection span from reports and memoranda prepared by the U.S. State Department staff, to correspondence with private firms and individuals. Of interest to scholars in history, foreign relations, Finnish Studies and history, and Soviet studies and history.

This collection includes 51 original play and operetta manuscripts from the collection of the Finnish Organization of Canada. The works were written in Finnish, mostly during the 1920's and 1930's, by first generation Finnish immigrants to Canada. The collection is a primary source on Finnish immigration to North America, especially to Canada. It also documents radical movements and working class history in Canada and the United States.

Created by U.S. Presidential directive during World War II and at first placed under the Federal Communications Commission in 1941, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was later transferred to the War Department, and then to the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947.

The original mission of FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. These translations, or transcriptions in the case of English language materials, make up the Daily Reports.

The FBIS Daily Reports collection is divided into two chronological segments: 1941-1974 and 1974-1996. FBIS Daily Reports, 1941-1974, consists of a single Daily Report publication. FBIS Daily Reports, 1974-1996, is comprised of eight separate regional Daily Reports, of which Part 6 pertains to Eastern Europe (EEU), and Part 7 to the Soviet Union and Central Eurasia (SOV). Regional coverage for eastern Europe and the Soviet Union is also included for the years 1968 to 1974.

The reports includes news, interviews, speeches, editorial commentary, and other materials.

Stanley Frolick (1920-1988) was a lawyer and a Ukrainian community leader in Canada. He held executive positions in several national Ukrainian organizations and was the founder of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.

Correspondence, legal documents, and minutes of meetings compiled by S.W. Frolick to support his contentions that certain events reported in the pamphlet, "The Five Years, related to the establishment of the first Chair of Ukrainian Studies", were misrepresented.

Mark Gayn was a journalist who traveled extensively and was known as one of the most knowledgeable and reliable commentators on Asian and Soviet bloc affairs. The Mark Gayn Papers consists of the impressive and varied research collection of print and non-print materials which he acquired during his career, which spanned five decades. The collection is divided into twenty categories or series, ten of which contain Russian material.

This collection consists of comprehensive materials related to the former Yugoslavia, particularly Bosnia, and U.S. presidential decision-making.

These German-Jewish periodicals published before World War II cover Jewish communities in many centres of German-speaking Europe from Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt to Vienna and Prague, and provide a vivid picture of the diverse aspects of German-Jewish cultural life. It includes contributions by such well known figures as Martin Buber, André Gide, Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Arthur Koestler, and William Bullitt.

Irvine Israel Glass (1918-1994) obtained his B.Sc. (1947) and M.Sc. (1948) in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Toronto.  In 1950, he obtained his Ph.D. from the newly formed Institute of Aerophysics at the University of Toronto.  He served in this Institute until his retirement in 1983, and thereafter he worked as Professor Emeritus.  Glass made major contributions to gasdynamics research and shock-wave phenomena.

The collection includes correspondence, programs, notes and photoprints relating to trips to China, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere (1969-1985); certificates (1947-1985); and addresses.  Some of his personal correspondence from 1981 to 1982 relates to his part in the campaign on behalf of Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet dissidents, while some from 1987 and 1988 concerns the campaign to allow Soviet Jewish refusniks to emigrate.  Files relating to trips taken by Dr. Glass include material on his visits to the Soviet Union in 1961 and to Poland in 1965.

A collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, and images related to Poland, with a focus on the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, assembled by Count Emeryk Hutten Czapski. The earliest item in the collection from 1505 is Erazm Ciolek's Oratio in praestia obedientia Soleni Sanctissimo nostro Julio II, Pape, in nominee serenissimi principis Alexandri Regi Polonia. The subject matter of the material includes texts written by Terence and Plutarch, biographies of Polish kings, details of famous battles, poetry books, and other topics.

The collection of Gulag press publications from the Scientific Library of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow, covers the period 1920 to 1937. It contains prison journals from the 1920s; bulletins, newspapers, and literary and cultural journals from the 1930s; collections of short stories, poetry, music and posters; and various propaganda texts and fragments.

Typescripts, some with holograph corrections, of stories in North American Russian-language newspapers, and some correspondence relating mainly to newspaper work.

Photos of Finnish Exchange Students at Hart House, dating from 1954-1963. 

This collection was originally published as Istoriia Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny Sovetskogo Souiuza 1941-1945 by the USSR Ministry of Defense and then translated into English by the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the Foreign Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command. It includes the complete official Soviet history of World War II written by some 200 historians and army officers, and provides information on Soviet involvement in the war.

Photos of the meeting of the International Astronomical Union Held in the Soviet Union, 1958. Helen Hogg, as well as other Canadian astronomers including A. Batten and S. van de Bergh, were present and can be seen in these shots.