Centered on the papers of physicist Andrei Sakharov, with extensive material on Sakharov's scientific career, personal life, and human rights activities, as well as the papers of other human rights activists.
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John and Carol Garrard collection of Vasilii Semenovich Grossman papers
Papers, 1902-2013. 2.5 linear feet (6 boxes including 1 pf box and 2 folders containing 3 items). The collection primarily contains photocopies of documents from various Russian, German and American archives related to the life and writings of Vasilii Semenovich Grossman and to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union, and the anti-fascist movement in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: compositions, correspondence, military and civil records, and maps. The collection also includes compositions by others, correspondence of John and Carol Garrard with friends and relatives of Vasilii Grossman and with repositories and archives, photographs, drawings, maps, and souvenirs. Finding aid available: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02521
Peter Reddaway photograph collection
Photographs, 1968-1988. 2 linear feet (5 boxes). Reddaway formed this collection as part of his work documenting Soviet human rights movements. The collection includes images of Soviet dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov, political prisoners in Gulag camps, penal facilities, and psychiatric prison-hospitals. Many of the photographs were published in newspapers, magazines, and books, including The Chronicle of Current Events. Finding aid available: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01537
Andreǐ Amalʹrik
Papers, circa 1965-1980. 23 boxes (9.2 linear ft.) Amal'rik, 1938–1980, was a Soviet dissident, historian, and dramatist. This collection includes correspondence, biographical materials, political writings, and lectures. Catalogue record: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094209340203941/catalog
Andreĭ Sakharov
Papers, 1852-2002. 57 linear feet (137 boxes). The Andreĭ Sakharov papers comprise personal and professional papers related to Andreĭ Sakharov's family; his life and work with his wife, Elena Bonner; his work as a physicist; his campaign to limit the testing and proliferation of nuclear weapons; his human rights activities, including hunger strikes undertaken by him and Elena Bonner; his role in the development of perestroika; and the activities of many others in the Soviet Union's human rights movement. Includes various formats of Sakharov's two key autobiographical works: Memoirs; and Moscow and beyond, an autobiographical novel. Substantial material for and about his wife, Elena Bonner, is included; her papers are included separately as a component of the Andrei Sakharov Archives at Harvard University. Formats of material present include manuscripts, drawings, photographs, electronic media, maps, printed material, and a few artifacts such as Sakharov's academic robes. Finding aid available: http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/modern/sakharov.cfm
Edward Kline
Papers, ca. 1968-1992. 22 boxes (14.75 linear ft.). The papers of Kline, an editor, writer, and former president of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation (USA). Catalogue record: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094210300203941/catalog
Elena Bonner (1923-)
Papers, 1930-2003. 17 linear feet (18 boxes). Collection includes Elena Bonner's personal and professional correspondence with friends, family, and supporters of human rights causes in Russia and abroad, drafts and galley proofs of her books, her speeches, statements, and essays, and compositions by other authors. It also includes letters, newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, reports and statements by various politicians and political parties and organizations and other material reflecting Elena Bonner's political activities and interests. Personal material in the collection includes documents, membership cards, biographical information about Bonner and her parents, notes, clippings and photographs. The papers also include correspondence of Tatiana and Efrem Yankelevich and Alexei Semyonov regarding the Andrei Sakharov Foundation and human rights causes. Finding aid available: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02788
Human Rights Collection
Collection, ca. 1968-2003. 103 boxes (50 linear ft.). This collection includes materials relating to various human rights organizations, as well as materials on individual cases of human rights violations both in the USSR and in other countries. Organizations represented include Amnesty International and the Committee of Concerned Scientists. Individual cases documented include Anatolii Manchenko, Tatiana Yelikanova, Yuri Orlov, Sergei Kovalev, and others. Catalogue record: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094209890203941/catalog
Ludmila Gurevich
Family papers, ca. 1900-1950. 3 boxes (1.2 linear ft.). The Gurevich family papers primarily document the life of Grigorii Gurevich, 1883–1952, editor-in-chief of the Novaia Derevnia publishing house, who spent several terms in labor camps.The papers include his letters to his family and his memoir, as well as correspondence among other family members.Also included are some writings of Roman Eiges, 1840–1926, a doctor who corresponded with Tolstoy [Tolstoi]. Catalogue record: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094210770203941/catalog
Martin Dewhirst
Papers, circa 1917-1999. 36 boxes (15 linear feet). Dewhirst is a specialist in 20th-century Russian literature and history. His papers, circa 1917–1999, include copies of articles from Russian newspapers, samizdat, and other material compiled by Dewhirst on Soviet dissidents and intelligentsia, the gulags, and other topics. Catalogue record: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990094209580203941/catalog
