Photographs from Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives digital collections contain more than a million digital objects, including posters, photographs, texts, sound recordings, and moving images, with new items frequently added. This section lists select collections with at least some digitized material that are part of A Research Guide to Photographs in the Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University.

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Buchman, Alexander H. (b. Cleveland, OH, 1911–d. Los Angeles, 2003) Papers, 1920‒2003: Includes motion picture film, still photographs, negatives and slides relating to Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism, especially in China and the United States, to the Trotskyist C. Frank Glass, and to Rayna Prohme, revolutionary American journalist in China. There are around 800 photographic prints and 14 negatives. Digitized material [click].

*Gajda, Rudolf (b. Kotor, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary, 1892–d. Prague, 1948) Photograph Album, 1918–1919: 280 prints depicting Czechoslovak, White Russian and Allied troops in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. Includes photographs of Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak. Digitized material [click].

Okhrana Records, 1883‒1917: Intelligence reports from agents in the field and the Paris office, dispatches, circulars, headquarters studies, correspondence of revolutionaries, and photographs, relating to activities of Russian revolutionists abroad. Collection is available on microfilm (509 reels). Digitized material [click].

*Vrangel', Baronessa Mariia Dmitrievna (b. 1857‒d. 1944) Collection, 1915‒1944: Material relating to Russian émigré activities following the Russian Revolution and Civil War, including political, military, veterans', religious, educational, cultural, literary, artistic, and social activities. Includes a few papers of M. D. Vrangel' and 29 photograph albums. Also available on microfilm (49 reels). Digitized material [click].

*Wolfe, Bertram David (1896‒1977) Papers, 1903‒2000: Material relating to Marxism; the international communist movement; communism in the Soviet Union, the United States, and elsewhere; literature and art in the Soviet Union and in Mexico; and the Mexican artist Diego Rivera. The photograph series includes 807 prints, 9 drawings, 6 negatives, 3 color slides, and 4 glass plates across 35 envelopes. Digitized material [click].

Album fW: КІЕВЪ [Kiev] 
Fedor Fedorovich Foss Papers (36006) were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1936.

The album is filled with nineteen photomechanical prints of places of interest in Kiev [Kyiv], Ukraine, from the early part of the 20th Century.

Album 7. Kazaki [Cossacks], Lemnos, 1921–1922. 

Baronessa Mariia Dmitrievna Vrangel’s collection (acquired in 1933) is a remarkable resource documenting the White Russian diaspora after the civil war. While this album focuses on the Don Cossacks on Lemnos and their relocation to Bulgaria and Serbia, the extensive collection includes more than 20 photographic albums depicting daily life, special events, and social and cultural activities in colonies of refugees worldwide.