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Included are texts of telegrams (1919-20) between Azerbaijan's diplomatic representatives in Armenia and their government in Baku, deciphered by Armenian military intelligence; reports (1919-20) on the military situation in the Caucasus region; and three published books on Armenians in World War I and on the "Armenian question" in general.

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, subject files and printed material. The correspondence is primarily from the 1920s and includes letters from G. E. Lv́ov and S. P. Mel'gunov and one or two items each from M. A. Aldanov, I. A. Bunin, N. V. Chaikovskii, A. L. Tolstaiia, V. F. Zeeler and others. The manuscripts are primarily in the form of notes in Polner's hand and include Polner's diary from the years 1919-1925. The documents belong to Tikhon Polner's brother, Sergei, and deal with the latter's expulsion from the USSR in 1921. There is extensive material in the subject files on the writings of Lev Tolstoĭ, including typescript copies of several Tolstoi manuscripts and clippings of the reviews of Polner's book on Tolstoi. Also included is a photograph of A. I. Herzen from the 1850s.

Manuscripts from his "Stoletniĭ putʹ russkoĭ derevni", on the development of one Russian village from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s, and manuscripts on education and literacy in the USSR.

The typescript "Tipy zakliuchennykh NKVD" (or "Gallereia tipov zakliuchennykh NKVD") by A. T. consists of a number of short essays on the fate of individuals during the great purge of the 1930s.

The collection consists of a series of letters from Mariia Trofimova to her son, Len Trofimov, who escaped the U.S.S.R. after the 1917 Revolution and went to live in the United States. The collection contains 40 letters and five post cards from Mariia to Lev, and 11 letters from his sisters, Evgeniia and Galina. There are also several letters from various persons, as well as translations of some excerpts made for a graduate project at Villanova University. The collection documents everyday life in the U.S.S.R. during Stalin's purges. The bulk of the letters cover the 1930s and the last post card was written at the beginning of World War II.

Typed manuscript by one Trusov. It consists of anecdotes primarily concerning the terror of the 1930's in Novocherkassk. Trusov was apparently an eyewitness to some of the events, and was informed, second-hand, about others in the manuscript.

Minutes, memoranda, bulletins and printed materials of the Uchreditel'noe sobranie (Russian Constituent Assembly) in Paris in 1921. There are minutes of the Judicial Commission of the Assembly; resolutions of the Executive Committee of the Assembly; a report of the Executive Committee's activities during 1921; numerous memoranda prepared by the Assembly mainly concerning Soviet Russia's relations with Western European and Far Eastern countries and treaties affecting Soviet Russia after WWI; and 11 typed information bulletins about the famine in Russia, Russian refugees and prisoners-of-war, and the financial situation of Soviet Russia in 1921. The printed materials include information bulletins, appeals to aid those suffering from the famine in Russia, and several pamphlets on Soviet prisons, the Treaty of Riga (1921), and the commercial pact between England and Soviet Russia(1921). There is also a folder with miscellaneous materials.

Mimeographed daily broadcast content reports of the U.S. Information Agency, Broadcast Service, Munich Radio Center, the "Voice of America." The reports are from the end of November 1954 through May 1956.

Mimeographed typescripts, entitled "Istorii︠a︡ Markovskoĭ Artilleriĭskoĭ Brigady." They were prepared and published by the Historical Commission of the veterans' organization of the Markov Artillery Division, which was a White Army unit in the Civil War. The editors were Vadim Shchavinskiĭ, Colonel Zholondkovskiĭ, and Captain Vinogradov. The two-volume history, with three later additions, discusses the history of the unit.