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Russia and Eurasia Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Soviet economy

Photo: Ivan Alekseevich Kurganov papers, Box 3, Folder 34, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, copyright Stanford University. 

Farquhar (Percival) papers

1922-1928

Correspondence, memoranda, and reports, relating to negotiations between P. Farquhar and associates and the Soviet government concerning the development of Russia's iron ore and steel resources, and to the work of American engineers in the Soviet Union. Includes reports on the Makeeva Steel Works, the Krivoy Rog Iron Ore District and Ekaterina and Donets Basin railway developments.

Fil'shin (G. I.) interviews

1987-1997

Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted by Tatiana Zhilkina, relating to political conditions and especially to economic policy in the Soviet Union and Russian Republic. Includes some biographical materials on G. I. Fil'shin.

Gerhardt (Philipp) collection

1917-1995

Printed matter, letters, notes, bibliography, and photographs, relating to the Soviet economist Nikolai Kondrat'ev and to economic long-cycle theory. Includes printed copies and typed copies of writings by Kondrat'ev; holograph fragments by Kondrat'ev; typed copies of letters from Kondrat'ev to his wife; and letters by Elena Kondrat'eva, daughter of Kondrat'ev, relating to her father.

Gosudarstvennyi bank SSSR issuances

1925-1928

Statements, reports, and monthly economic surveys, relating to banking and general economic conditions in the Soviet Union.

Karcz (Jerzy F.) papers

1917-1970

Correspondence, writings, research notes, statistical surveys and reports, and miscellanea, relating to Soviet and East European agriculture and economics. Jerzy F. Karcz was also known as George Karcz.

Kurganov (Ivan Alekseevich) papers

1940-1980

Writings, correspondence, card files, and printed matter, relating to economics, anti-communist movements, and Russian émigré affairs. Includes records of the Koordinatsionnyi TSentr Antibol'shevistskoi Bor'by and some papers of Aleksandr Kerensky.

Lee (William Thomas) papers

1950-2001

Writings, correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, and printed matter, relating to Soviet armed forces, the Soviet economy, and American defense policy.

Leman family memoirs

2000s, undated 

Relates to economic conditions in Russia, especially Siberia, in the interwar period, and to economic policy of the Vysshii sovet narodnogo khoziaistva.

Litoshenko (Lev Nikolaevich) papers

1925-1927

Writings and photographs, relating to agriculture in the Soviet Union and industry in the United States. Includes drafts and final typescript of "Agrarian Policy in Soviet Russia before the Adoption of the Five Year Plan" (co-authored with Lincoln Hutchinson), and typescript of "Metody finansirovaniia amerikanskoi promyshlennosti." Writings sponsored by the Committee on Russian Research, Hoover War Library.

Nauchno-issledovatel'skii institut truda Zapadno-sibirskii filial records

1965-1993

Studies, reports, conference proceedings, statistics, and publications, relating to social and economic conditions and labor in Siberia.

Nutter (G. Warren) papers

1956-1978

Writings and memoranda relating to the calculation of industrial growth in the Soviet Union and to miscellaneous aspects of American defense policy. Includes drafts of G. Warren Nutter's book, Growth of Industrial Production in the Soviet Union (1962). Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 

Pelikan (John M.) papers

1929-1932

Correspondence, contractual agreements, and clippings, relating to engineering operations and economic conditions in the Soviet Union, and to exit difficulties of J. M. Pelikan and his wife, a Soviet citizen. Photocopy.

Sokolov (B. N.) writings

1931-1932

Writings, entitled Soviet Dumping (1931), and Industry in the U.S.S.R. in 1931 (1932), relating to Soviet commerce and industry.

Soviet Union. Narodnyi komissariat finansov. Sekretariat miscellaneous records

1923-1937

Resolutions, protocols, and minutes of meetings, relating to financial and economic policy in the Soviet Union. Includes resolutions of the TSentral'nyi Ispolnitel'nyi Komitet, the Sovet Narodnykh Komissarov, and the Sovet Truda i Oborony.