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Materials begin with mid-19th century Russian legations in the German states. Others cover major events in the Eurasian heartland: the Russo-Japanese War, First World War, revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War, anti-Communist emigration, development of the USSR, Second World War, emergence of the dissident movement, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and development of newly independent states since 1991.
Anatol Shmelev is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Robert Conquest Curator for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia at Hoover’s Library & Archives, and the project archivist for its Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Collection. Shmelev’s expertise is in twentieth-c...
The Hoover Institution continues to publish Russian materials from its own collections as more material from Russian archives has become available in the last few years, Hoover has also been participating in cooperative projects with different Russian publishers: Izdatel'stvo ROSSPEN and Mezhdunarodnyi fond "Demokratiia", both based in Moscow.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the papers of Viacheslav Ivanov, who was a world-renowned Russian-born scholar and one of the most influential figures in late Soviet and post-Soviet academe, cultural life and society.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the papers of the Vilenskii-Brontman family. These papers consist primarily of personal documents belonging to and reflecting the life of old Bolsheviks—active party member, Leonid Vilenskii and family members, including David Brontman, a Soviet aviation and space engineer.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives now has a complete set of Amerikanskie biulleteni, an official weekly US government publication in the Russian language issued between 1917–1918 in Moscow.
In this interview, Research Fellow Anatol Shmelev, curator of the Hoover Library & Archives’ Russia and Eurasia collection, discusses his new book, published by Hoover Institution Press, In the Wake of Empire: Anti-Bolshevik Russia in International Affairs, 1917–1920.
The Hoover Institution Press has published In the Wake of Empire: Anti-Bolshevik Russia in International Affairs, 1917–1920, by Anatol Shmelev, Robert Conquest Curator for Russia and Eurasia at the Hoover Library & Archives.
Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the exhibition The Crown under the Hammer: Russia, Romanovs, Revolution examines the political, social, and cultural upheavals that transformed Russia in the final decades of the Romanov dynasty and the first years of Soviet Communism.
Yale undergraduate Emma Poole describes her research in Hoover's American Relief Association records.
On September 26-27 and October 3-4, the Kultura Channel in Ukraine aired an interview with Anatol Shmelev, Hoover fellow and curator of Russian and Eurasian collections at Hoover Library & Archives. Shmelev discussed how Hoover Library & Archives inform and support the extensive amount of research conducted at the institution.
A new exhibition, Double Exposure: Russia’s Secret Police under the Last Tsars, is based on one of the most extraordinary collections held in the Hoover Library & Archives: the records of the Paris headquarters of the Russian Imperial secret police, known as the Okhrana. The Okhrana collection, consisting of once-secret files and photographs of many of the most wanted Russian revolutionaries of the early twentieth century...
