University of Illinois Archives

Resources (15)

• Albert H. Lybyer (1876-1949)

  Papers, 1876–49, 19.3 cu. ft. History professor and statesman. He was on the American Commission to Negotiate Peace and on the King-Crane Commission after World War I. His academic specialty was the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans. RS control card. (NUCMC 65–1925) (RS 15/13/22)

• American Library Association Archives

  1876-present, 735 cu. ft. and growing. Materials relating to the 50th anniversary conference of the ALA in 1926, including letters, photographs, and ocher documents concerning the visit of Mme. L. Haffkin Hamburger, a Leningrad librarian. The International Relations Office files for the World War II era contain several scattered folders pertaining to the Soviet Union. Some of these items are about the ALA Program Books for War Devastated Areas. A photograph file includes a few photos of Russian libraries. The archives of the Association of College and Research Libraries is thought to contain material relating to scholarly interest in the USSR. A series of hard-copy finding aids for this collection has been converted to an information retrieval system, which will be indexed for subjects and names.

• Avery Brundage (1887-1975)

  Papers, 1908–75, 139 ft. President of the International Olympic Committee, 1952–72. Correspondence, office files, reports, and publications. Brundage, with the IOC from 1936, had frequent contact with Soviet athletes and officials. Perhaps 1% of the total collection holds information on Soviet sports, the influence of politics on athletics, Russian participation in international competition, and Moscow's attempts to become host for the Olympic Games. Brundage visited sports facilities in Russia and attended Olympic meetings there in 1954, 1962, 1967, and 1971. There is a finding aid: Avery Brundage Collection, 1908–1975 (Koln, 1977), 275 pp. (NUCMC 77–1168) (RS 26/20/37)

• Eugene I. Rabinowitch (1901-1973)

  Papers, 1924–73, 14.6 cubic feet. Russian-born scientist. Includes recollections of his emigration from Russia in 1918. RS control card. (NUCMC 69–271) (RS 15/4/23) Finding aid available: https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=3724

• George W. Swenson (b. 1922)

  Papers, 1957–77, ca. 1 cu. ft. Professor of electrical engineering and research professor of astronomy. He visited Russian radio astronomy installations in 1961. Correspondence, reports, and photos. RS control card. (NUCMC 67–478) (RS 11/6/21)

• Joseph T. Tykocincr (1877-1969)

  Papers, 1900–69, 23.4 cu. ft. Polish-born research professor of electrical engineering. Some items from the time he worked in Russia, 1900–18. (NUCMC 71–1171) (RS 11/6/20)

• Philip E. Mosely (1905-1972)

  Papers, 1922–72, 40.6 cu. ft. Professor of international relations at Cornell, 1936–40, and Columbia, 1946–72, and president of the East European Fund, 1952–61. Correspondence, reports, manuscripts, articles, lectures, photographs, course materials, and clippings. Materials relate to Russian area studies, Russian travel, 1931–36 and 1956–61, State Department service, 1949–50 and 1959–71, security clearances, 1954–72, the East European Fund, 1951–64, Ford Foundation, 1952–68, Rockefeller Foundation, 1944–65, Council on Foreign Relations, 1952–62, Social Science Research Council, 1941–57, American Council of Learned Societies, 1948–49 and 1960–68, Columbia University's European Institute, 1950–71, and Russian Institute, 1963–70, Rand Corporation, 1950–70, War Documentation Project, 1951–55, Chekhov Publishing House, 1951–69, Bilderberg Group, 1957–68, Dartmouth Conferences. 1960–70, and his research on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1955–65, zadrugas, 1937–41, and Transylvanian Saxons, 1934–36. Correspondents include John A. Armstrong, Cyril E. Black, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, David J. Dallin, Michael Karpovich, Richard Pipes, Geroid T. Robinson, Leonard Schapiro, Timothy Sosnovy, and Serge Zenkovsky. Inquire concerning possible restrictions. Unpublished finding aid. (RS 15/35/51)

• Samuel A. Kirk (b. 1904)

  Papers, 1933–67, ca. 7 ft. Professor of education and director of the Institute for Research on Exceptional Children. He visited the USSR in 1962 with a presidential mission studying Soviet treatment of mental retardation. In 1966 he traveled to the Soviet Union to attend the International Conference on Special Education sponsored by the International Congress of Psychology. Materials include letters, reports, speeches, and articles. RS control card. (NUCMC 69–258) (RS 10/14/20)

• Simon Litman (1873-1973)

  Papers, 1865–1965, 5 cu. ft. Odessa-born professor of economics. Some information on life in Russia before 1905 and on Russian affairs until 1955. (NUCMC 77–1182) (RS 9/5/29)

• Slavic and East European Journal Editor's File

  Records, 1970–76, 6 cu. ft. Correspondence, reviewers' evaluations, and similar material for manuscripts submitted for publication in the periodical. (RS 15/20/51)

• Sound Recordings

  1936-present, over 3,600 hrs. Tape recordings of lectures given on campus. Includes talks by Manley O. Hudson, 1946, Alexander Kerensky, 1944, Foy D. Kohler, 1971, Countess A. Tolstoi, 1949, and others, plus speeches on Soviet-American relations. (RS 13/6/5)

• Steven P. Hill (b. 1936)

  Papers, 1965–68,.1 cu. ft. Includes transcripts of tape-recorded interviews with Soviet filmmakers. (RS 15/20/ 20)

• Temira Pachmuss and Vladimir Zlobin Collection, 1901-2006

  10.0 cubic feet. Temira Pachmuss and Vladimir Zlobin Collection including personal papers of Temira Pachmuss (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1961-1999). The collection also includes the archives of Russian expatriate writers Dmitiri Merezhkovskii, Tatiana Manukhina, Christophor Tadevossian, Anna Hippius [Gippius] and Zinaida Hippius [Gippius] which were purchased in the 1960s. These archives include publications, literary manuscripts, personal correspondence, business correspondence (primarily with publishers), newspaper clippings relating to the authors' works and lives, photographs, and memorabilia. The collection also includes the archives of Vladimir Zlobin, secretary to Zinaida Hippius [Gippius], containing manuscripts of Zlobin's works, correspondence regarding the publication of Merezhkovshii's works, and articles regarding Boris Saviknov. Finding aid available: https://archives.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1520021.pdf

• University High School Social Science Curriculum Study Center Materials

  1966–71, 2.3 cu. ft. Some manuals and teaching materials on Russia. (RS 10/12/8)

• William and Emmanuel H. Brandt

  Collection, 1807–19, 8 cu. ft., 138,000 items. Business archives (records) of a London firm trading with Archangel, St. Petersburg, and the Hanse ports. Ca. 25% of the items (correspondence and reports) are in poor physical condition. Material on Jacob B. Rodde and Brandt, Rodde & Co., third largest trading house in Archangel. RS control card and supplementary finding aid. (RS 15/35/50)