Russia/CIS

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Symbol of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Mastheads of Russian newspapers from the Hoover Institution Library Opposition Press Collection, the largest such collection in North America. Hoover Institution Records

Frank A. Golder, 1877–1929, curator of the Hoover Collection and a history professor at Stanford, made several collecting trips to Europe and Soviet Russia. His acquisitions formed the foundation of the Hoover Institution's holdings on modern Russia and early Soviet history. Hoover Institution Archives

Russian World War I caricature showing Kaisers Wilhelm and Franz Joseph climbing a tree to escape the Russian bear, 1914. Poster Collection, Hoover Institution Archives

Drawing of a Red Army soldier brandishing a sword over a pile of White generals to get to Donets, Russia, 1920. Artist: Dmitrii S. Moor. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection

The premier of Russia's 1917 Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky (right, with Witold Sworakowski, former assistant director of the Hoover Institution), contributed to the institution's three-volume documentary study of that government. Hoover Institution Records

Page from a book of photos of wanted revolutionaries used by the Okhrana, or Russian secret police. In the upper-right corner are two mug shots of Leon Trotsky. Okhrana Records, Hoover Institution Archives

Portrait of General Vrangel', commander of the White Russian volunteer army, 1917–20. Poster Collection, Hoover Institution Archives

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Hoover honorary fellow, examines Russian newspapers from the collection of the Hoover Institution Library. Hoover Institution Records

Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev with former archivist Anne Van Camp. Stanford University

Campaign poster and flyer from the Ukrainian collection. Hoover Institution Archives

Saint Nicholas Cathedral in the New City, Harbin, China. I. I. Serebrennikov papers, Hoover Institution Archives

Poster pillar in Harbin, China. I. I. Serebrennikov papers, Hoover Institution Archives

Russian émigré Tamara Semenovna Filimonova, 1906–96, owner of a publishing house in China. I. I. Serebrennikov papers, Hoover Institution Archives

The Russian/Soviet/Commonwealth of Independent States Collection is one of the world's great scholarly resources for the study of this area in the twentieth century. Geographically, this collection includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, constituting some of the most important holdings of the Hoover Institution. Subject areas collected include twentieth-century history, politics, government, economics, military affairs, and political and social movements, especially communism.

The collection endeavors to gather and preserve documentation within its subject and geographic areas, including monographs; periodicals; newspapers; pamphlets; government documents; ephemera; manuscript collections, such as personal papers and organizational records; films; posters; photographs; and maps. The majority of the materials collected are in the Russian language; however, materials can be found in the collection in all the languages of the CIS states, as well as in most Western languages.

Curator(s)
Anatol Shmelev, acting associate curator