Oral History Center

Resources (12)

• Aleksandr N. Lenkoff [Lenkov](1896-1975).

  Soldier. "Life of a Russian Emigre Soldier," 64 pp., 1967 (Series II; Raymond), plus "Report to Subcommittee on Russian Emigre Project," 4 pp., and "Bibliography of Works on Far Eastern Emigration," 16 pp. Photographs inserted. Experiences during the Russian Revolution and with the White Army in Siberia; life in China, 1922–48; including service with a Russian detachment in the Chinese army; emigration to the U.S. The report and bibliography are Raymond's. A second volume contains a map drawn by Lenkoff to accompany the interview and an issue of a monarchist publication he edited. Transcript available: http://vm154.lib.berkeley.edu:3002/searchinterview/fullDisplay?data=351596

• Boris Shebeko (1900-75?)

  Engineer. "Russian Civil War, 1918–1922," 284 pp., 1961 (Series I; Pierce). Photographs and maps inserted. Experiences with the White Army on the southern and Siberian fronts; emigration to China, and to the U.S. in 1923. Finding aid available: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;titlesAZ=r;idT=UCb112331476

• California Russian Emigre Series.

  Transcripts of tape-recorded interviews conducted by the staff and others. The typed transcripts are deposited in the Bancroft Library and the original tape recordings remain in the Regional Oral History Office. The ongoing Russian emigre series began in 1960. Among those interviewed thus far, in 3 separate series, by Richard A. Pierce, Alton C. Donnelly, and Boris Raymond (Romanoff):

• Elizabeth Malozemoff (1881-1974)

  Teacher. "The Life of a Russian Teacher," 444 pp., 1961 (Series I; Donnelly). Photographs and maps inserted. Life as a teacher in pre-revolutionary Russia and Siberia; experiences during the Revolution; escape through China; residence in Oakland; Russian emigre societies; studies and teaching at UC Berkeley. Transcript available: http://vm154.lib.berkeley.edu:3002/searchinterview/fullDisplay?data=351540

• George Constantine Guins (1887-1971)

  Government official and professor. "Professor and Government Official: Russia, China, and California," 378 pp., 1966 (Series II; Raymond); and "Impressions of the Russian Imperial Government," 84 pp., 1971 (Series III; Pierce). Photographs inserted. First interview: life in pre-revolutionary Russia; experiences during Revolution and Civil War; life in Harbin, China, as professor and official of the Chinese Eastern Railway; emigration to the U.S., 1941. Also included, as vol. 2: photocopies of articles written by him, bibliography, curriculum vitae, etc. Second interview: comments on events in Russia between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917; career as official in the Ministry of Agriculture; discussion of Russian administrative system. Included also: copies of biographical sketch and obituary. Transcript and audio available: http://vm154.lib.berkeley.edu:3002/searchinterview/fullDisplay?data=351656

• George Hoyningen-Huene (b. 1900)

  Photographer. "George Hoyningen-Huene, Photographer," 47 pp., Los Angeles, 1967 (interview conducted by Elizabeth I. Dixon for the UCLA Oral History Program). Life in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg; emigration after the Revolution; teaching at Art Center School, Los Angeles; career as a fashion illustrator and as a motion picture photographer.

• Jacob Marschak (1898-1977)

  Professor. "Recollections of Kiev and the Northern Caucasus, 1917–18," 78 pp., 1971 (Series III; Pierce). Photographs inserted. Recollections of early years in the Jewish community in Kiev; interest in Russian revolutionary movement; experiences as member of the Menshevik faction of the Social Democratic Party during the Revolution and Civil War. Included also: brief biographical sketch and list of selected publications of Marschak. Transcript available: http://vm154.lib.berkeley.edu:3002/searchinterview/fullDisplay?data=351661

• Michael M. Shneyeroff (1880-1961)

  "Recollections of the Russian Revolution," 270 pp., 1960 (Series I; Pierce). Photographs inserted. Participation in the Russian revolutionary movement, 1900–17; experiences during the Revolution; emigration to the U.S. in 1921. Also includes 2 items donated by Shneyeroff to supplement his interview: "When I Was Young," 80 pp., Berkeley, CA., 1957—recollections of his participation in the revolutionary movement as a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party; and "What I Remember" (1 microfilm reel, negative), Berkeley, 1952—typescript in Russian, memoirs as member of the SR Party, 1901–21. Transcript available: http://vm154.lib.berkeley.edu:3002/searchinterview/fullDisplay?data=351534

• Miklos Nagy-Talavera (b. 1929)

  "Recollections of Soviet Labor Camps, 1949–1955," 100 pp., 1972 (Series III; Pierce). Photographs inserted. Reminiscences of a Hungarian emigre, covering his imprisonment during World War II in Auschwitz; his return to Hungary and work with anti-communist underground ; imprisonment in Soviet labor camps in Siberia, outer Mongolia, the Arctic, and Central Asia. Transcript available: http://vm154.lib.berkeley.edu:3002/searchinterview/fullDisplay?data=351681

• Paul Dotsenko (b. 1894)

  "The Struggle for the Liberation "of Siberia, 1918–1921," 144 pp., 1960 (Series I; Pierce). Photographs inserted. Activities in Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia, imprisonment and exile in Siberia, political activities after the Revolution, emigration to the U.S. in 1923. Also includes text of a speech delivered in June 1954: "Fight for Freedom in Siberia: Its Success and Failure." Transcript available: http://vm154.lib.berkeley.edu:3002/searchinterview/fullDisplay?data=351528

• Valentin Vassilievich Fedoulenko (1894-1974)

  Russian Emigre Life in Shanghai," 171 pp., 1967 (Series II; Raymond). Photographs inserted. Experiences during World War I and with the White Army; life as a refugee in Shanghai; Japanese occupation of Shanghai during World War II; removal to the Philippine Islands in 1949 and refugee camp at Tubabao; arrival in San Francisco, 1950; efforts to bring in other Russian refugees; Russian colony in the Bay Area. With this, as a second volume: his recollections of days in a Russian military academy, in Russian, and material relating to Russian refugees. Transcript available: http://vm154.lib.berkeley.edu:3002/searchinterview/fullDisplay?data=351586
  

• Victorin Mikhailovich Moltchanoff (1886-1975)

  "The Last White General," 134 pp., 1972 (Series III; Raymond). Photographs inserted. Military training in Russia; experiences during World War I and the Revolution; antiBolshevik movement; military events during the Civil War in Siberia; emigration to California in 1923; Russian emigre settlement in San Francisco. Transcript available: http://vm154.lib.berkeley.edu:3002/searchinterview/fullDisplay?data=351680