Preliminary survey of the Scope of Hoover Library Materials in the Slavic Languages and on Communism of Prospective Research Value to CIG

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Preliminary Survey of the Scope of Hoover Library Materials in the Slavic
Languages and on Communism of Prospective Research Value to CIG
I. Catalogued entries.
A. By chronological periods in Russian history.
B. By subject headings under "Russia".
A. Magazines and journals (general).
B. Journals (technical.
C. Bibliographical.
D. Miscellaneous.
III. Newspapers.
A. Soviet.
B. Emigre.
IV. Minor nationalities.
V. Reference works.
VI. Recent acquisitions.
A. Summaries from Annual Report of Hoover Library, October 1946.
B. Miscellaneous listings.
C. Materials still boxed or due to arrive.
D. Materials in the vault.
VII. Maps and charts.
VIII. Posters and pamphlets.
IX. Slides and films.
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I. Catalogued and temporarily listed entries.
Subjects were selected or formulated (for their possible suitability to CIG
interests) from the chronological and subject arrangements of catalogued and
shelved entries. Some cross-reference subjects are listed for the sake of
the general picture but there is much material on hand under almost every
heading; in addition, there is considerable material not yet catalogued.
A. By chronological periods in Russian history.
1. Pre-1914.
Virtually all subjects listed under paragraph B have many materials especially
pertinent to the pre-1914 period.
Cossacks
Gosudarstvennaia Duma (1906-1907)
Lena Gold Field Strike, 1912
Revolution of 1905
Russo-Japanese War
2. 1914-1917.
Almost all general subjects which are pertinent to the 1914-1917 period are
represented as well as many others peculiar to it.
3. 1917 Revolution.
Causes
Chronology
Counter-revolutionary movements
Intervention, allied
Laws
Maps
Naval operations
Persnnal narratives
Pictorial works, posters
Regimental histories
Religion
Sources of material
4. Provisional Government (March-November 1917).
Many general subjects, together with those peculiar to this period, are
represented.
Bread monopoly
Constituent assembly
Bolsheviks
elections
peasants
Laws and statutes
Collections of decrees and directives of the provisional government on cooperative
societies and unions, compiled by the Judicial department of the Soviet for the
All-Russian Cooperative Congresses
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5. Soviet Period.
Anti- and counter- Soviet governments, 1918-1920
personal narratives
riots
sedition
Archivest Workers, RSFSR, minutes of meetings
Counter-revolutionists and saboteurs, special measures for dealing with
Courts, 1917-1919
Emigrees and military prisoners
Famine of 1922
Intervention, allied, 1918-1920
Intervention, Japanese
Land disposal regulations and transition to socialist agriculture
Northwest Army, 1918-1920
Supreme Soviet for People's Economy, minutes of meetings
materials on
B. By subject headings under "Russia".
Many of the subject headings have sub-headings by chronological period, by
countries or appropriately otherwise. The list presented here is obviously
sketchy, the attempt having been made (for the most part) to list only those
justified by the existence of considerable material.
Activists
Addresses, essays, lectures
Afghanistan
Agrarian questions and laws
Agriculture
experiment stations
irrigation
restoration in famine areas
Army
drill and tactics
handbooks and manuals
infantry
recruiting
stores and supplies
Artillery
Asiatic relations
Aviation and aeronautics
Balkans
Bashkirs
Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
Bessarabia
Biographies, memoirs, diaries, letters
Bolshevism
Boundary problems
by countries
Bucharia
Budget
Cattle trade
Caucasus
Cavalry
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Censorship
Census
Charities
Chemical industries
Children
care
employment
hygiene
Church
and government
history
Civilization
Clinical medicine
Coal
Colonies
Siberia, etc.
Comintern
helps for workers and materials for club meetings
Commerce
Commercial policy
Commercial representation in other countries
Commercial treaties
Communism
by countries
China
Aikenval'd, A.: On the Tactical Line of the Comintern in China, Moscow 1927.
Struggle for a United National Anti-Jap Front in China, 1937.
Erenberg, G.: Soviet China, Moscow, 1934.
Kuchumov, V.: Essays in the History of the Chinese Revolution, Moscow 1934..
Program Documents of the Chinese Soviets, a compilation, Moscow, 1933.
Shishkin, G.: Bolshevism in Chi-ia, Shanghai, 1930.
Hungary
Italy
Mexico, etc.
professional revolutionaries
Zinoviev, G.: Chief Steps in the Growth of the Comintern, 1922.
Comintern and the United Labor Front, 1922.
Works, Leningrad, 1923-1926.
What the Red Army Soldier Must Know and Understand, 1919.
techniques and methods
Compulsory non-military service
Concessions
Constitutional history
Constitutional law
Contagion in animals
Cooperatives
practice
theory
Maslov, P. P.P Theory of Cooperatives,'Gosknipd, 1922.
Nikolaev, A.: Theory and Practice of the Cooperative Movement, Moscow 1908.
Cooperative distribution
Mescheriakov, N. L.: Provisions Tax and the Cooperative, Moscow 1921.
Copyright
Coroners
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Corporations
Cost and standard of living
Cotton growing and manufacture
Court and courtiers
Credit
banks and banking
Crime and criminals
Criminal procedure
Criminal statistics
Currency question
Debts, public, private
Defense
Democracy
Diplomatic and consular service
Diplomatic documents and treaties
by chronological periods
Directories of officials and employees
Disabled, rehabilitation
Disarmament
East, Near, Far
Economic conditions
Economic policy
by chronological periods
by five-year plans
Economic theory
Bukharin, N. I. (Extensive works on hand)
Attack, Collectionlof theoretical articles, Moscow 1924.
Economics of the Transitional Period, 1920.
On the Ouestion of Trotskyism.
Political Economy of the Property Man (Austrian theory of value and profit).
Rykov, A. I. (Numerous speeches and articles on hand)
Economic Situation in USSR, 1928.
Socialist Construction and the International Politics of the USSR, Moscow 1927.
i'conomy
agricultural
industrial
Education
of the military
of the state
of women
technical
Educational institutions and programs
Elections
Electrification
Emigration and immigration
Employment agencies
Engineering
Ethnology
Exiles
Exploring
Family
Famines
materials for the agitator in dealing with famine
starvation and church wealth
statistics
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Federal structure of the USSR.
Official materials (laws, decrees, statutes) including laws of local governments
and political and administrative divisions.
Collection of Decisions and Decrees of theWorker-Peasant Gov't, RSFSR 1917-1939.
Collection of Decisions and Decrees of the Government of the USSR, 1924-1939.
Numerous monographic works on local government.
Encyclopedia of Local Government and Economy, Moscow Academy.
Communal Economy in Figures and Diagrams, 1917-1927.
Territorial and Administrative Division of the USSR, 1934.
Governmental Administration, compilation of legislation of RSFSR, 1934.
Finance
Finland
campaign
Firearms industry and trade
Flags
Food production
Food relief
Food. supply
Foreign population
Foreign relations
by chronological periods
by countries
Forests and forestry
Gazeteers
Geneology
Generals
Geography
Government documents
(several trays of cards in card catalogue)
Grain trade
Guardian and ward
Guidebooks
Heraldry
Historiography
Housing
Illiteracy
Industries
history
directories
statistics
state relationship
Inland waterways
Insurance
accident and health
industrial
Intellectual life
Iron industry and trade
Jews
Journalism
Journals
military
rev--lutionary
Justice, administration of
Kings and rulers
Kindergarten, summer work
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Labor and laboring classes
Labor contract
Labor laws and legislation
Labor market
Land and agriculture
Land tenure
Landlord and tenant
Languages
Latvia
Law
Laws
banks
codification
copyright
credit
criminal law
elections to Supreme Soviet
family
forests
illiteracy
income
marriage
patents
personal property
railroads
taxation
trade
trademarks
Lawyers
League of Nations
Learned institutions and societies
Legal ethics
Legislation
Liberation movements
Libraries
Liquor problem
Literature
Lithuania
Local government
Lumber industry
Lumber trade
Manufacturers
Maps
Marriage law
Medical laws and legislation
Medicine
Merchant Marine
Military art and science
Military engineering
Military geography
Military law
Military operations
Military strategy, supplies and equipment
Militia
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Mineral industries
Miners
Mines and mineral resources
Mining
Minorities
Money
Mongolia
Moral conditions
Moving pictures
Municipal government
Nationalism
Nationality, citizenship
Natural resources
Navy
history
regulations
Neutrality
Newspapers
Nonconformists
Occupations
Officials and employees
Paper
Party congresses
proceedings, resolutions
Peasantry
Pensions
mothers
soldiers
Personal narratives
Petroleum
Physical geography
Poland
Police
Political crimes and offenses
Political parties
Politics and government
Population
Poultry
Press
Press law
Prices
Prisons
Prohibition
Propaganda
Agitation propaganda for workers and peasants
History
instruction courses
materials
techniques
Communist Propaganda and the Struggle With It, a series of six lectures by the
Officers' School for the Improvement of Military Knowledge, affiliated with the
First Division of the Russian Military Union in Paris (Veterans of Russian wars
who organized in Paris into an anti-Soviet study group), Paris 1931.
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Provinces
Public health, hygiene
Public lands
Public opinion
Public prosecutors
Public welfare
Public works
Publishers and publishing
Radio
Railroads
Rationing, consumer
Reconstruction
Red Army and the Communist Party
Reference books
Registers, annualst almanacs
Relations (general) with other countries
Religion
Religious thought
Revolutionary movements
Rivers
Russo-Finnish war
Russia, Asiatic
Russians in
China
France, etc.
Salesmen and Salesmanship
Salt industry and trade
Sanitary affairs and sanitation
Secret service
Secret societies
Serfdom
Shipbuilding
Siberia
Social classes, sects
Social conditions
Social life and customs
Social movements
Social security
Socialism
by countries
relation to cooperatives
Society
Sociology
Sports
Statistics
Strikes and lockouts
Sugar growing and. manufacturing
Suicide
Tariff
Tariff policy
Taxation
Tea trade
Textile industry and fabrics
Theatre
Tibet
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Trade unions
"Jumerous individual works by Soviet writers
Tomskii, M. P. (very well represented)
Stenographic reports and resolutions of Trade Union Congresses, 1918.1932.
Transport workers
Transportation
Travel
Treaties
Trials
Krylenko, N. V.: After Five Years, 1918-1922; Incriminatory Speeches at the
Large-scale Trials in Moscow and in the Supreme Revolutionary Tribunals.
Pokrovskii, M. N.: What did the Trial of the So-called Social Revolutionaries
Establish? Moscow, Glavpolitprosvet, 1922.
Trial of the All-Union Bureau of the Central Cotmnittee of the Counter-revolutionary
Menshevik Party. Signed by K.rylenko, Public Prosecutor of RSFSR.
Trotskyism
Turkestan
Ukraine
Unemployment
Universities and colleges
Veternary
Views
Village communities
Vital statistics
04'ages
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,ar gasses
Wheat
White Russia
Women
Youth
movements
The card catalogue lists three trays of titles of Russian serials including many in Slavic
languages other than Russian. Listed below are only a few of those which might be
important to CIG. Not listed are any of numerous journals on hand of the "Old
Emigre" group published in such cities as Zurich, Geneva, Paris and New York. In
some cases there are gaps between the dates mentioned either because issues were not
published or for some other reason were not received.
A. Magazines and journals (general).
AGITATOR'S COMPANION
Published.by Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party.
On hand: 1946
WA K" NING
Anarchist ma,&$ine published in Detroit.
On hand: 1933-1934
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BOLSHEVIK
Published by Central Committee of Communist Party.
Discusses problems of theory and criticism of Leninism. Designed for activities
of the Communist Party.
On hand: 1924-1947
v' CAUCASUS
Published in Paris as an "organ of independent national thought".
Presents the struggle for political independence of the mountaineers of the
Caucasus who desire to become an integrated part of the Caucasian Federation
which includes Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia.
On hand: 1934-1939
COITUNIST COMPANION
Weekly of the Moscow Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Contains rules from headquarters on?all subjects for Communist Party members.
On hand: 1921-1927
COMMUNIST IAITEEDNATIONAL
Official organ of the Comintern Executive Committee.
On hand: 1924-1943
FOR DEFENSE
Journal of the Central Soviet of the Osoaviakhim (Society for the Promotion of
Self Defence and Aero-Chemical Industry) and of the Supreme Administration of
Local Anti-air Defense.
On hand: 1946
GODLESS of THE ATH?IST
Organ of the 1uilitant Godless Society, Moscow.
Violently condemnatory of church and religion.
On hand: 1933-1940
GOV'RNMFNT POWER OF THE SOVIETS
Journal of the VTSIK (All Russian Central Executive Committee).
Political in character.
On hand: 1917-1938
HANDBOOK FOR AGITATORS
Published in Moscow b7 the Department of Propaganda and Agitation.
On hand: 1946
HARD LABOR AND EXILE
Published as a historical revolutionary journal by the All-union Society of
Former Political Prisoners and Exiles, Moscow which was ordered discontinued
in 1932 and was succeeded by the Society of Old Bolsheviks.
On hand: 1924-1932
MARXIST HISTORIAN
Historical journal of the Communist Academy, edited by Pakrovsky. Later it became
the journal of the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences.
On hand: 1932-1941
MESSENGER OF EDUCATION
Published in Moscow with the following aims: to train personnel for building
socialism, to educate toward a realization of the theory of Marxian pedagogics,
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to present educational methods and organization both locally and in other
countries, to present the practices of the experimental educational institutions
for the masses.
On hand: 1922-1929 under above title
1930-1940 under title of FOR COWU`\TIST EDUCI" TInN
MESSENGER OF LABOR
Published in Moscow.
Aims to give a theoretical explanation of the new tasks confronting the trade
unions during the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
On hand: 1920-1927
IVJESSE,VG? R OF MANCHURIA
Economic journal published in Harbin by Emigres to accuaint the Russians with
Eastern peoples.
Ethnographic and geographic in subject matter.
On hand: 1925-1932
NENT WORLD
Published in Moscow by the Society for the Study of the Urals, Siberia and the
Far East and the Commission of the All Russian Central 'Executive Committee for
Assistance to Northern Tribes.
Subject matter: Social science.
On hand: 1925-1930; title varies, later SOVIET ASIA
ON THE ROADS TOWARD THE SCHOOL
Published in Moscow by the Scientific-Pedagogic Section of the Oover;ament
Scientific Soviet (GUS).
On hand: 1922-1933
PLANNING ECONOMY
Published in Moscow.
Presents technical problems relative to economy and the dynamics of world economy
for forwarding the socialist movement in USSR.
On hand: 1925-1940
PRCLETARIAN W VOLUTION
Published in Moscow by the Historical Commission of the Communist Party.
Stalin to its editors declares its task is: "to pay serious attention to the
history of Bolshevism, to place the study of our party on the scientific Bolshevik
rails and to sharpen the attention against Trotskyites and all other falsifiers of
the history of our party by systematic uncovering of their masks".
On hand: 1921-1941
PROPAGANDIST
Journal of the Central, Moscow, Moscow City committees of the All-Union Communist
Party.
On hand: 1945-1946
PUESTIONS OF SOVIET COMME CE
Published in Moscow by the People's Commissariat of Commerce, USSR.
Discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of economics, planning, organization
and techniques of Soviet Commerce.
On hand: 1932-1940
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Historical journal oublished in Leningrad.
Stressed revolution, civil war and Communist Party struggles. Ordered discontinued
because of believed counter-revolutionary tendencies.
On hand : 19 22-19 36
RED ARCHIVES
Historical journal published in Moscow by the NKVD.
Aims to publish results of new research on such subjects as historical struggle
for proletarian dictatorship, questions of defense of USSR, international relations,
socialism in USSR.
On hand: 1922-1941
RED 10A,S
Literary journal published in Moscow.
Aims to gather works of new Soviet literature. Several changes of policy.
On hand: 1921-1935
REVOLUTION AND 'NATIfNALITIrS
Monthly journal of Soviet Nationalism published in Moscow b=7 the People's
Commissariat on Nationalities.
On hand: 1933-1937
SCIrNTIFIC AND TyCHNICAL FRONT
Published in Moscow.
Political journal to enlighten people on scientific questions.
On hand: 1933-1938
SI'3f7T AN LIGHTS
Published in Novosibirsk.
Presents Siberian culture and literary life toward socialist development and
cultural revolution.
On hand: 1922-1929
SLAVS
Soviet pan-Slavic weekly.
On hand: 1940-1947
SOCIALIST .ECONOMY
Published in Leningrad, Moscow.
Presents many complete works of research on economic theory and policy.
On hand: 1929-1930
SOCIALIST MESSENC'R
Published successively in Berlin, Brussels, Paris and New York(since 1940).
Menshevik periodical strongly anti-Soviet.
On hand: 1921-1947
SOVIET BOOK
Monthly critical bibliographical journal.
On hand: 1946
SOVIET GOVERNMENT AND LAW
Published in Moscow by the Communist Academy to shed light on state and constit-
utiohal ouestioris.
On rand- 1933-1940
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SOVIET '' PHITE RUSSIA
Organ of the Central Committ>e of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of trThite
Russia and the Supreme Soviet, BSSR.
On hand: 1946
STRUGGLE OF THT. CLASSES
Published in Moscow.
Militant Bolshevist propaganda. Wages war against all attempted revision of Marx's
and Lenin's doctrines and against Chauvinism and local nationalism.
On hand: 1931-1934 under above title.
1937 as HISTORICAL JOURNAL
1945-1947 as PROBL~ .rS OF HISTORY
TRUTH OF THE UKRAINE
Organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Ukrainian, of
the Supreme Soviet and the Soviet of the People's Commissariat of the Ukr.5SR.
On hand: 1945
UNDER THE BANNS- OF MARXISM
Published in Moscow.
Militant organ of Marxism-Leninism; fights for the Communist party and against
every deviation from it.
On hand: 1922-1933; 1941-1944
VOICE OF THE PAST
Literary and historical journal published in Moscow, edited by Moscow University
professor expelled by Soviets in 1923.
On hand: 1913-1923
WAR AND THE LABORING CLASSES (also in English)
Presents problems of foreign policy of the USSR and other countries.
On hand: 1940-1947 (Since June 1945 under title of NP?!,' TI ?!ES)
W1WKLY OF SOVIST JUSTICE
Published in Moscow by People's Commissariat of Justice.
On hand: 1923-1927 udder above title.
1946 under title of SOCT 1LISTIC LEGALITY (not intended for foreigners)
1"'HITE CAUSE
Published in Berlin by White Army Emigres to present facts of the White stru;o-gle
against the "rude and evil" forces in Russia as related by participants themselves.
On hand: 1920
,''ILL OF RUSSIA
Published in Prague by members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Political, economic and literary subjects.
On hand: 1922-1931
WORLD SSRVICE
Nazi journal published in Berlin to expose the Soviets.
On hand: 1936-1940
YOUNG BOLSHEVIK
Popular, theoretical bi-weekly journal of the Central Committee.
On hand: 1940
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B. Magazines and journals (technical).
ACAD-77 OF SCIENCE, Leningrad (Well represented)
M7S3ENGER, 1927, 1939, 1944-1.946.
ORGANS OF THE BIO-GEO--CH' .TIC AL LA"11OR.! TORY, 1933-1939.
BIOLOGIC SCIENTIFIC R"'..SEARCH INSTITUTE, 1931-1941.
C01101TISSION FOR THE STUDY OF LAKE '3AIKAL, 1918, 1922, 1927, 1930-31.
COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF THE SUN, 1932-1935.
CO111vMIS,SION TO STUDY THE NP TU'B' L PRODUCTIVITY OF THE SOIL OF STBERTA,
1923-1930.
EN`{'RG`?:TICAL INSTITUTE, 1933-1940.
INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCT_ENCE, 1939-1941.
INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES, 1933-1937.
MINERALOGICAL INSTITUTE, 1927-1911.
SEISMOLOGICAL I,STITUTE, 1934-1940.
SOVIET ETHNCGR.APHY, 1933-1937.
ALL SOVIET ARCTIC INSTITUTE, Journal of Transactions, 1931-1935.
ANNALS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WHITE RUSSIA, Minsk, 1925-1932.
BULLETIN ()F `f'H rACi?'IC SCIENTIFIC FISHERIES' INSTITUTE, 1930--31, 1937-1942; 1945.
GEOLOGY OF THE WEST SIBERIAN REGION, 1934-1935.
JOURNAL. OF PHYSICAL CH 141TSTRY, Moscow, Leningrad, 1945.
JOURNAL OF THE FAR EAST7,,N REGIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, Vladivostok, 1929.
JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICO-CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Leningrad University, 1892-1901.
ON THE AC tARIAN FRONT, Organ of the Agrarian Institute of the Communist Party,
Moscow, 1926-1934.
PETROLEUM ECONOMY, gemit nical organ published by the People s Commissariat far
Commerce and Industry, 1921-1932.
PROTECTION OF PLANT LIFE, 1936-1941.
C. Bibliographical
BOOK ANNALS
Published by the All-Union Book Chamber; lists all books, pamphlets, etc. published
in the USSR.
On hand: 1907-1941; 1945
ANNALS OF ^AGAZINE ARTICLES
Guide to periodical literature of the more important magazines.
On hand: 1925-1940
ANNALS OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Guide to periodical literature of the more important newspapers.
On hand: 1935
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D. Miscellaneous (serials selected at random).
ALL UNION CENSUS
Bulletin of the Central Statistical Board, USSR, Dep't of Census, 1923-1927.
BULLETIN OF TH i' PEOPLE'S COM. EISS :RIAT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, 1919-1922.
CALENDAR OF COF,MqJNISTS, 1923, 1928.
COLLECTION OF STATUTES OF THE WORKER-PEASANT COV'='R? MENT, RSFSR, 1917-1939.
COMPLETE COLLECTION OF LAWS, 235 volumes beginning with Sobovnoe Ulozhenie, 1649.
FOOD DECREES, 1917-1919.
FOREIGN TRADE, USSR, 1924-1938.
TI NDBOOK OF THE C0T I`~?TERN, 1924-1927.
I\TTER. TTIONAL RELATIONS DURING THE IMPP7-T.LIST PERIOD.
Documents from Archives of the Czarist and Provisional Governments. Published by
the Commission to Publish Documents of the Period of Imperialism of the Central
Executive Committee of the USSR.
LABOR IN THE USSR, year book, 1935.
UI TTi{S OF THE C00,11UNIST INT"17 NATIONAL
Theses and decisions of the plenary meetings etc., 1919-1925.
STATISTICAL BULLETINS
Numerous. Varied as to date and place.
YEARBOOK OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOP, Y, 1935.
III. Newspapers.
A. Soviet newspapers.
(ost of the newspapers on hand are All-Soviet rather than provincial. In some cases
there are gaps where issues were not published or for some other reason were not
received, but in many cases complete files are on hand.
COI IUNIST YOUTH'S TRUTH
Organ of the Central Moscow Committee of the VLKSM (All-Russian Leninist Communist
Un{iion of Youth).
On hand: 1929-1940; 1941; 1943-1945
ECf"HTOMIC LIFE
Organ of the People's Commissariat of Finance, of the State Bank, of the Industrial
Bank, of the Agricultural Bank, of the Central Cooperative Bank, of the Trade Bank
and of the Central Committee of the Union of Financial Workers (Some newspapers of
these individual organizations are also on hand.).
On hand: 1918-1940 (title varied, sometimes called FINANCIAL GAZETTE)
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LABOR
Organ of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions.
On hand: 1930-1947
NF S (IzVESTIA)
On hand: 1917-1947
RED STAR
Organ of the Commissariat of National Defense.
On hand: 1921-1942
SOCIALIST AGRICULTURE
Organ of the Pe^ple's Commissariat of Agriculture.
On hand: 1933-1946
TRUTH (PRAVDA)
On hand: 1917-1947
B. Emigre newspapers (Anti-Soviet, published outside USSR).
Not listed are several published by the '101d Emigre" group including Social Democrats --
both Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, Socialist Revolutionaries,-Anarchists, members
of the Jewish Bund and of lesser organizations.
C01olbSON CAUSE
Anti-Communist paper published in Paris, edited by V. L. Burtsev.
On hand: 1918-1920
DAYS
Socialist Revolutionary paper published in Paris, edited by A. F. Kerensky.
On hand: 1923-1928
LAST NEWS
i'leekly, published in Paris, edited by ?!,iliukov, founder of the Constitutional
Democratic Party (Party of National Freedom) (Leftist wing).
On hand: 1928-1940
{effl WORLD
Nazi paper published in Berlin.
On hand: 1934-1939
'1EG~',NERATION
Protagonist of the Russian Army; more conservative than L"ST Mrt^.'S.
On hand: 1925; 1929; 1930; 1939-40
STEERING WHERM
Published in Berlin; represented somewhat the rightist wing of the Constitutional
Democrats.
On hand: 1920-1931
TODAY
Independent democratic paper published in Riga.
On hand: 1920-1940
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Of the approximately one hundred different languages of the USSR, alphabets were
invented for those lacking them. The Hoover Library has books and pamphlets in
many of these languages, chiefly translations from the Russian.
V. Reference works. (selected list)
RIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF RUSSIAN UN-77-FLSITIFS AND OF THE RUSSIAN ACADE?,TY
OF SCIENCE, 1896, 1902, 1904.
RIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLTJTT(-,N ARY
MOVE1v7,NTS FROM THE PR-TD"CESSORS OF THE DECEM!3RI'TS 01925) 7' T147 DMTNFALL OF
THE RUSSIAN?,.ONARCHY, five volumes, Moscow, 1927-1931.
ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY, 43 volumes, 1894-1906.
LARGE SOVIET ENCYCLOPEDIA, volumes 1-33 and 57-65.
LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIA, volumes 1,2,4,6-8, 1930-1932.
MILITARY ENCYCLOPEDIA, last volume published in 1915.
POLITICAL DICTIONARY, 1940.
RUSSIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1096-1912.
SIBERIAN SOVIET ENCYCLOPEDIA, 3 volumes, 1929-1931.
SMALL SOVIET ENCYCLOPEDIA, 10 volumes, 1930-1931.
A. Summaries from .Annual Report, October, 1946.
From the following information contained in the Annual Report, October 1946 of the
Hoover Library and Research Institute for the Stanford General Secretaryts L'ffice,
one may picture the type and degree of collecting done annually. If one will multiply
this amount of materials by a good many years almost as bountiful in acquisitions,
one may imagine the wealth of the hoover Library.
China:
Numerous documents, serials and newspapers originating in or relating to Japan,
China, Manchuria and the Philippines. Eighteen publications issued between 1.932
and 1941 dealing with the social history of China.
Denmark:
Books, pamphlets, newspapers of the occupation period, including files of 24.
illegal papers and one cf two copies of the original report of a leader of an
underground unit.
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France:
Collected b.y the French Committee of the Hoover Library and other Hoover Library
agents and representatives. Many books on France before and following the
Armistice with Germany; collection of testimonies of French deportees to German
concentration camps; complete file of the clandestine paper, "Forces Francaises";
official documents of the German military government in occupied France, handbills
and broadsides addressed to the French people in 1940 by Marshall Petain; type-
written copies of reports by various Maquis leaders, authenticated copies of
documents from the archives of the COMAC (Comite Militaire de l'Action Clandestine),
authenticated copies from the papers of the Commission Militaire Nationale,
Conseil National de la Resistance.
Germany:
Hoover Library agents collected thirty six cases of books and pamphlets from the
Nazi House of the Press. Sixteen large boxes collected by Vrnest J. Cramer during
his military service in Germany and concerned chiefly with Germany in '"Torld War II,
National Socialism and colonial problems.
India:
Much material on Indian problems sent by members of "Servants of India Societ;""and
the Indian Council of World Affairs.
Japan:
Sent by Tokyo Office of Hoover Library, over ninety boxes of materials--books,
pamphlets, government documents, files of serials and newspapers. Especially
noticed was a Japanese "Summary of Military Operations", classifed secret and
ordered to be destroyed.
Latin America:
Books onMexico's Foreign Relations, books and pamphlets published in Latin
American Countries and dealing with revolutionary movements in those countries.
Poland:
Many underground publications either in the original or in photettatic copies.
Russia:
From dealers in this country and directly from USSR such as from the Book Exchange
Department, All-Soviet Society for Cultural. Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS).
Much from the American Russian Institute of San Francisco.
Files and single copies of newspapers and periodicals, 1943-1945.
NAVAL REGULATIONS FOR THE WORKER PEASANT MILITARY-NAVAL FLEET OF THE USSR, Moscow,
1940, a volume which was distributed only among high ranking officers of the
Navy afloat.
Goriainov, S. M.: GUIDE BOOK FOR CONSULS, St. Petersburg, 1903.
Golunski, S. A.: MANUAL OF ORGANIZATION OF THE COURTS, Moscow, 1939.
Strogovich, A&. S.: MANUAL OF CRT"-TNAL PROC EnI"4GS, Moscow, 193g.
Much material published by the All Russian Institute of Juridicial Science on
criminal, civil, labor and socialist law.
Spain:
Initial shipments of materials of the Burnett and Gladys Bollsten Collection of the
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 including books and pamphlets, government documents,
files of newspapers and serials published inside and outside of Spain, bound volumes
of clippings and about 4500 feet of microfilm.
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Sweden:
Twenty-two boxes of,German propaganda, publications of Swedish political parties,
labor and other influential organizations, including "Fred och Frihet" and
"Nordens Frihet", and a file of"Trots Allt", the Communist weekly.
Ukraine:
Wartime Ukrainian newspapers and files; books and pamphlets mostly published in
the United States and Canada.
Received also were many additions to the l:11.brary's documentation of the Socialist
and Communist Internationals and Communist Parties especially in Great Britain and
the United States.
B. Miscellaneous recent listings (Selected at random).
Eleventh Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 24-27 April,1945; stenographic
report, Moscow, 1945, 297 p.
Khromov, P. A.: Sketches of the Economics of the Textile Industry, t?SSR, Moscow
Academy of Science, Institute of Economics, 1946.
Lenin, V. I.: Lenin and Stalin on Socialist Government and Soviet Democracy,
Moscow, 1945, 109 p.
Levin, I. D.: "tar and the Nationalist ruestion in 'Europe. Tashkent, 1943.
lifeshscheriakov, G.: Struggle for Kiev, Moscow, 1944.
Petrovskii, N. N.: Rddintegration of the Ukrainian People in the United Ukrainian
Soviet Government, Moscow, 1944.
Ponomarenko, P. K.: Partisan Movement in the Great Patriotic '?ar, Moscow, 1943.
Shaginian, M.: Urals in Defense, Moscow, 1944.
Tiumov, V. Western !gals, Moscow, J?13.
C. Materials still-boxed or scheduled to arrive shortly.
authority.
1. Over one hundred volumes of Bulgarian items, many oublished by Soviet
2. World War II material from all countries, including extensive underground
and clandestine literature.
3. Eleven huge crates of material from the Yenan Government; Peiping
publications; three thousand books from the Nanking Program; maps of Communist
regions; monthly returns of Foreign Trade of China; Shantung fragmentary Communist
materials, 1937-1947; Heissig's Mongol library; Honkong Daily News (war years);
Documentation of the Democratic League, 1941-1946; materials of the Communist Branch
Executive Heado.uarters. Most of this material was gathered by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
''right, Hoover representatives in China. Most of it is in Chinese, but some is
[-t-, urteu GC) Ue 1r1 rLUSS1an.
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D. Materials in the vault.
Much sealed material is sent to the Hoover Library on the cond?tion that it be kept
intact and not opened until a certain date. This material is kept in a special
vault and the instructions as to date of opening are strictly followed. Each month
in accordance with instructions by the donor, new material is opened and made
available for research.
VII. Maps and charts.
The Hoover Library contains very few separate Soviet maps and almost none since before
World War II; at present in the way of map and chart materials, there is little more
than those found in books or periodicals or in Soviet Atlases.
VIII. Posters and pamphlets.
On hand are hundreds of Soviet propaganda and teaching posters from both prey1orld
War II and World War II periods. They are not catalogued. Innumerable propaganda
pamphlets, many also uncatalogued, represent all periods of modern Russian development.
IX. Slides and films (35 mm.)
The following contain miscellaneous scenes, wharves, buildings, factories, roads etc.
1. On the General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow, 396 views.
2. The Caucasus, 66 views.
3. Eastern Siberia, 73 views.
4. The Crimea, 64 views.
5. The First Soviet 'etro, 76 views.
6. The Ukraine, 58 views.
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