John N. Hazard papers, 1880-1973

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Series I: Class Notes from Moscow Juridical Institute



Box 1 Administrative Law


Box 1 Agrarian Law


Box 1 Civil Law


Box 1 Civil Procedure


Box 1 Court Structure


Box 1 Criminal Law



Box 2 Criminal Procedure


Box 2 Economic Law


Box 2 Family Law


Box 2 History of International Relations


Box 2 Housing Law



Box 3 International Public Law


Box 3 Labor Law


Box 3 Occasional Lectures


Box 3 Political Economy


Box 3 Soviet State Structure


Box 3 Theory of State and Law

Series II: Foreign Economic Administration



Box 4 Outgoing Correspondence, January-August 1943



Box 5 Outgoing Correspondence, September 1943-May 1944



Box 6 Outgoing Correspondence, June 1944-June 1945



Box 7 Outgoing Correspondence, July 1945-July 1946



Box 8 Day Journals, July 1941-December 1942



Box 9 Day Journals, 1943-1946



Box 10 Soviet Aid Reports, 1941-1944


Box 10 German Administration in the Baltic Area, 1943

Series III: Various



Box 11 Wallace Trip to the USSR, 1944


Box 11 "A Source Book for Russian History from Early Times to 1917" manuscripts


Box 11 Pamphlets: M. V. Kozhevnikov. Podsudnost' ugolovnykh del, 1939


Box 11 Vsepodannyishi Otchet' o Senatorskoi Revizii Privislingkago Kraia

Item is missing as per 06.08.2022


Box 11 Imperial Russian Government Bonds; Paper money (25 rubles), 1909, 1914, 1916


Box 11 Election Ballots and Instructions for November 1917 Elections in Petrograd

Series IV: Correspondence, Writings, Reports, 1934-1943

10 folders; 1 half manuscript box

The Series contains Hazard's letters from 1934 to 1939 when he was studying at the Moscow Judicial Institute and employed by the Institute of Current Affairs and are written to Walter S. Rogers, his supervisor, and to John French, a lawyer and family friend. They provide important first-hand information about Soviet politics, culture, economics, law, relations with the US and religion. Also included are some of his unpublished reports on topics such as voting procedures in the Soviet Union, legal education, and the interpretation of Soviet law.



Box 12 Folder 1-8 Hazard's letters to Walter S. Rogers and John French, 1934-1939, undated

(in chronological order)


Box 12 Folder 9 Writings: publications of Hazard's works, 1936-1943, undated


Box 12 Folder 10 Reports