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Clippings gathered into scrapbooks, chiefly from American newspapers, on various subjects relating to the Soviet Union and communism.

Typescript and carbon copy of an incomplete and unpublished manuscript "Iz istorii osvoboditel'nogo dvizheniia (ili obshchestvennogo samosoznaniia) v Rossii. Pavel Borisovich Aksel'rod. Ego zhizn', literaturnaia i prakticheskaia deiatel'nost'" , 200 pp., attributed to Aptekman in a note signed by Abraham Ascher of Brooklyn College.

Collection consists of printed materials, including books, set of photographs "Vidy Moskvy" (1956); theater playbill, tickets and programs (1957); instruction sheets from the State Library named after Lenin; business card of Geroid T. Robinson with handwritten inscription. Books include: A. R. Kugel'. Profili teatra (1929); Modeli detskoi i zhenskoi odezhdy (1957); Gostiam Moskvy (guide, 1957); Kratkii telefonnyi spravochnik (1957).

The collection consists entirely of personal papers including correspondence, manuscripts, and miscellaneous materials, most of which pertain to Davis' family. The most interesting parts of the collection are Davis' letters from Russia, 1916-1919, which contain his observations on the Russian Revolution, and Davis' short story and play manuscripts, none of which were ever published.

The collection consists of Emlen D. Evers manuscript "Moscow Diary and Letters" — her diary and letters of Moscow 1937. As she explains, "The Diary and letters ... are actual with some corrections and deletions of repetitions," with addtion of some of her father's "comments from his handwritten diary and from the two manuscripts which [she] assembled from the closed file at the Library of Congress and the letters and some recollections."

This collection contains theses and dissertations submitted to Columbia University's Harriman Institute.

The John N. Hazard papers consist of a processed set of 11 boxes, numbered 1-11, and an unprocessed set of 46 boxes, numbered 1-46.

Video of Viktor Kravchenko and his son Valentin. Viktor Kravchenko was a well known Soviet defector who was apparently killed by the KGB in the late 1960s.