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Within
Hoover's extensive collections on twentieth century Russia and other
former Soviet republics, certain areas are particularly well documented.
The late prerevolutionary Russian Empire (ca. 1870-1917) is represented
by a large collection of publications, many rare and even unique
in the United States. There are especially strong holdings on
- the
rise of political parties
- Imperial
Russian diplomatic archives
- the
revolutionary movement
- Asiatic
Russia and its colonization
- the
"Okhrana" (tsarist secret police)
- the
Russo-Japanese War
- Russia's
participation in World War I
Nearly
complete documentation is available in the library on Russian legislation,
the dumas, and the first general census of 1897. Files of prerevolutionary
periodicals and newspapers are abundant.
In
addition, Russian and Soviet materials are among the most significant
of the Hoover Institution's archival holdings, comprised of approximately
1000 individual collections. They document the tsarist regime between
1880 and 1917 (especially diplomacy), revolution and counterrevolution,
war relief, civil war, emigre' movements, and the USSR.
The
Hoover collection on the 1917 revolutions, the provisional government,
and the civil war is probably the best collection in the West. Documentation
on the provisional government, including official gazettes, legislation,
and ministerial publications, is extensive, as is research material
on the civil war, including activities in Ukraine, Byelorussia,
Siberia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Mongolia.
The
largest part of the library collection deals with the Soviet period.
Subject areas particularly well covered are
- War
communism, 1918-1921
- terror
and forced labor
- anti-religious
action
- separatist
movements and the nationality question --including the "Ukrainian
Tsentral'na Rada," the Ukrainian National Republic, the Western
Ukrainian Republic, the Transcaucasian Republics, and the Basmachi
in Central Asia
- the
New Economic Policy (NEP) period, 1921-1927
- the
peasant question and collectivization, especially in Ukraine and
Kazakhstan
- economic
planning
- Soviet
foreign policy
- the
Comintern
- trade
unions
- the
Soviet military
- the
Russo-Finnish War, 1939-1940
- the
Soviet Union in World War II
Outstanding
coverage is found for
- the
Soviet Communist Party -- including minutes of party congresses,
plenums, secretariat documents, etc.
- dissident
and opposition movements (including "samizdat" materials)
For
the post-communist period strengths are found in
- the
"opposition" political press,
- postcommunist
political parties,
- postcommunist
elections, and
- ethnic
policy and ethnic conflict (in Russia and other former Soviet
republics)
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