1992-2015
Photocopies of notes on and transcripts of correspondence, writings and police records drawn from files on Aleksandr Shli͡apnikov and Sergeǐ Medvedev in Russian archival repositories, 1917-1958, relating to the Workers Opposition movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Includes digital sound recording and transcript of interviews of I͡U. A. Shli͡apnikov, son of Aleksandr Shli͡apnikov. Used as research material for the book by Barbara Allen, Alexander Shllyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Leiden, 2015).
Berezin (IAkov Davidovich) papers
1919-2015
Correspondence, notes, personnel records, trial records, printed matter, personal documents, and photographs relating to the Soviet secret police and to Soviet purge trials of the 1930s.
Khisamutdinov (Amir Aleksandrovich) writings
1856-2010
Relates to political purges in the Soviet Far East during the 1930s, and to other aspects of the twentieth century history of the region. Includes some writings by Aleksei Mikhailovich Buiakov, some collected material, and a bibliography of the writings of A. A. Khisamutdinov. Photocopy.
1958-1992
Biographical notes, letters, death and rehabilitation certificates, and photographs, relating to the political career of the Russian Menshevik leader Georgii Kuchin-Oranskii, his execution for anti-Soviet activities in 1938, his rehabilitation in 1958, and the imprisonment of his wife Ida Kuchina.
undated
Drafts and biographical data used in preparation of the book by B. Lewytzkyj, The Stalinist Terror in the Thirties : Documentation from the Soviet Press (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1974). Includes material relating to political purges in the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s.
1858-2006
Papers contain memoirs, diaries, poems, other writings, certificates, and photograph, relating to political and cultural conditions in the Soviet Union and post- Soviet Russia, Russian literature, purges in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, and the execution for anti- Soviet activities in 1938 of Edgar Polents, father of O. E. Tuganova, and his posthumous rehabilitation in 1956.
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