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Russia & Eurasia

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    Materials begin with mid-19th century Russian legations in the German states. Others cover major events in the Eurasian heartland: the Russo-Japanese War, First World War, revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War, anti-Communist emigration, development of the USSR, Second World War, emergence of the dissident movement, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and development of newly independent states since 1991.

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    Digital Collections

    Diaries, films, and diplomatic records from Russia

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    History of the Russia & Eurasia Collection

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    Letters from the Gulag

    by Emily Johnson via Hoover Digest

    Russian Empire

    Kyrgyzstan

    Soviet Union

    Moldova

    Russian Federation

    Mongolia

    Armenia

    Turkmenistan

    Azerbaijan

    Ukraine

    Belarus

    Uzbekistan

    Georgia

    Unrecognized States

    Kazakhstan
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    Anatol Shmelev

    Robert Conquest Curator for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia / Research Fellow

    Anatol Shmelev is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Robert Conquest Curator for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia at Hoover’s Library & Archives, and the project archivist for its Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Collection. Shmelev’s expertise is in twentieth-c...

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    Hoover Institution Acquires the Papers of Boris Pushkarev

    The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the papers of Boris Pushkarev, the son of prominent Russian émigré historian Sergei Pushkarev.

    April 04, 2022
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    Hoover Institution Acquires Viacheslav Ivanov Papers

    The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the papers of Viacheslav Ivanov, who was a world-renowned Russian-born scholar and one of the most influential figures in late Soviet and post-Soviet academe, cultural life and society.

    March 22, 2022
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    Hoover Institution Acquires the Vilenskii-Brontman family papers

    The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the papers of the Vilenskii-Brontman family. These papers consist primarily of personal documents belonging to and reflecting the life of old Bolsheviks—active party member, Leonid Vilenskii and family members, including David Brontman, a Soviet aviation and space engineer.

    January 05, 2022
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    Hoover Institution Acquires A Complete Set Of Bulletins Issued By The American Press Bureau In Russia, 1917–1918

    The Hoover Institution Library & Archives now has a complete set of Amerikanskie biulleteni, an official weekly US government publication in the Russian language issued between 1917–1918 in Moscow.

    August 02, 2021
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    Q&A: Anatol Shmelev On In the Wake Of Empire: Anti-Bolshevik Russia In International Affairs, 1917–1920

    In this interview, Research Fellow Anatol Shmelev, curator of the Hoover Library & Archives’ Russia and Eurasia collection, discusses his new book, published by Hoover Institution Press, In the Wake of Empire: Anti-Bolshevik Russia in International Affairs, 1917–1920.

    March 10, 2021 Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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    Hoover Institution Press Publishes In The Wake Of Empire By Anatol Shmelev

    The Hoover Institution Press has published In the Wake of Empire: Anti-Bolshevik Russia in International Affairs, 1917–1920, by Anatol Shmelev, Robert Conquest Curator for Russia and Eurasia at the Hoover Library & Archives.

    January 26, 2021 Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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    The Crown Under The Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution

    Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the exhibition The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution examines the political, social, and cultural upheavals that transformed Russia in the final decades of the Romanov dynasty and the first years of Soviet Communism.

    October 18, 2017
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    Yale Undergraduate Emma Poole Examines Herbert Hoover's Food Relief In Russia

    Yale undergraduate Emma Poole describes her research in Hoover's American Relief Association records.

    May 10, 2017
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    Curator Anatol Shmelev Interviewed For Two-Part TV Series In Ukraine

    On September 26-27 and October 3-4, the Kultura Channel in Ukraine aired an interview with Anatol Shmelev, Hoover fellow and curator of Russian and Eurasian collections at Hoover Library & Archives. Shmelev discussed how Hoover Library & Archives inform and support the extensive amount of research conducted at the institution.  

    October 15, 2015
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