Bureau of Applied Social Research-War Documentation Project Records, 1950-1956
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- BAR Ms Coll/Bureau ASR
- Bib ID:
- 4078124 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Columbia University. Bureau of Applied Social Research. War Documentation Project
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 3500 items (14 boxes)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection has no restrictions.
This collection is located on-site.
Description
Scope and Content
Office files and reports of the Bureau of Applied Research of Columbia University, relating to the Bureau's War Documentation Project. Under government grants, this project used captured German documents to study the Second World War in the Soviet Union. This collection includes correspondence, progress reports, other office files, and printed reports and drafts of specific projects. There is also one file concerning a project on Hungarian military potential after World War II.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in three series.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection has no restrictions.
This collection is located on-site.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Bureau of Applied Social Research-War Documentation Project Records; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Related Materials
RBML holds the Bureau of Applied Social Research Records (MS #0166).
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1965.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Papers Accessioned 1965.
Papers Processed 01/--/79.
Papers Revised 06/--/82.
Revision Description
2009-06-26 File created.
2014-03-28 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Subject Headings
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Box 1
"Alexander" Project Publication, 1955
Box 1
American Political Science Association
Box 1
Berlin Document Center
Box 1
Building Expenses, 1954
Box 1
Carr, Benson V.
Box 1
Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
Box 1
Classified Materials Receipts
Box 1
Clearances, 4 folders
Box 1
Dallin, Alexander
Box 1
Department Records Branch, AGO
Box 1
Destruction of Classified Records
Box 2
Distribution of Reports, 4 folders
Box 2
Distribution of WDP Progress Reports 1 & 2
Box 2
Document Log
Box 2
Eglin Air Force Base
Box 2
Epstein, Hans
Box 2
Fainsod, Merle
Box 2
Financial & Job Descriptions
Box 2
Fried, John H.E.
Box 3
Government Contracts
Box 3
Guide to Captured German Documents
Box 3
Holborn, Hajo
Box 3
Hungarian Military Manpower Potential
Box 3
Intelligence Research Requirements Planning Conference, 1950 February, 1950
Box 3
John, Arthur
Box 3
Library of Congress
Box 4
Maxwell Air Force Base, 3 folders
Box 4
Melland, Brian
Box 4
Memoranda on Meetings, Staff Conferences, etc. (folders 1-4)
Box 5
Memoranda on Meetings, Staff Conferences, etc. (folders 5-6)
Box 5
Miscellaneous
Box 5
Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 folders}
Box 5
Monthly Activities Reports, 1952-54
Box 5
Mosely, Philip E., 3 folders
Box 6
Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation
Box 6
Neumann, Franz
Box 6
Nuremberg Trial Documents
Box 6
Operations Research Office
Box 6
Phase II, General (of WDP)
Box 6
Phase II, Planning & Organization
Box 6
Progress Reports, 1954
Box 6
Quarterly Progress Reports, 1953-54
Box 6
Rand Corporation
Box 6
Saltzman, Allen
Box 6
Sweden (Bonnier Dagens Nyheter case)
Box 6
U.S. Air Force
Box 6
U.S. Army
Box 6
U.S. Department of State
Box 7
U.S. High Commissioner for Germany
Box 7
U.S. National Archives
Box 7
U.S. Navy
Box 7
WDP Conference, Columbia University, June 1952
Box 7
WDP General Objectives
Box 7
WDP Progress Report 1
Box 7
WDP Progress Report 2
Box 7
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Box 7
Yivo Institute
Box 7
Yugoslavia
Project "Alexander"
Box 8
Staff, "The Soviet Partisan Movement in World War II: Summary and Conclusions" (2 copies)
Box 8
Armstrong, J., "Partisan Warfare in the Dnepr Bend Area of the Ukraine"
Box 8
Dallin, A., "The Soviet Partisan Movement in the North Caucasus, 1942-43"
Box 8
Devitt, K., & W. Moll, "The Partisan Movement in the Bryansk Area, 1941-1943"
Box 8
Devitt, K., "The Role of Partisans in Soviet Intelligence"
Box 8
Epstein, F. et al., "A Survey of German Agencies Dealing with Partisan Warfare in the USSR
Box 9
Mavrogordato, R., & E. Ziemke, "The Partisan Movement in the Polotsk Lowland"
Box 9
Weinberg, G., "The Partisan Movement in the Yelnya-Dorogobuzh Area of the Smolensk Oblast"
Box 9
Weinberg, G., "The Role of Airpower in Partisan Warfare"
Box 9
Ziemke, E., "Composition & Morale of the Partisan Movement"
Box 9
Ziemke, E., "The History of the First Belorussian Brigade"
Box 9
Ziemke, E., "The Soviet Partisan Movement in 1941"
Project "Caesar"
Box 10
Staff, "Political & Police Controls in the Red Army during World War II (vols. 2,4,5)
Project "Cassandra"
Box 10
Armstrong, J. et al., "Soviet Reoccupation Policy in Kharkov, 1943"
Box 10
Devitt, K., "The NKVD in the Defense of Tula, 1941
Project "Ceres"
Box 11
Dallin, A., & G. Weinberg, "The Peasantry as a Source of Soviet Vulnerability: Experiences & Lessons of World War II"
Project "Cleopatra"
Box 11
Moll, W, et al., "Soviet Agent Operations in the German-Occupied
Box 11
Territories during World War II", 4 folders
Miscellaneous Projects
Box 12
Staff, "Activity Report of the Troika (Re-establishment of the Soviet
Box 12
Regime in a Partisan-Held Area, 1941-1942)"
Box 12
Staff, "Selected Soviet Sources on the Partisan Movement"
Box 12
Armstrong, J. & K. Devitt, "Organization & Control of the Partisan Movement"
Box 12
Beck, A., "Partisans in the Polisto Area"
Box 12
Moll, W., "The Local Population "between the Occupying Power and the Partisan Movement"
Box 12
Waldman, E., "German Occupation Administration in the USSR"
Box 12
Waldman, E., "The Ordnungsdienst (OD) in Army Group Center"
Box 13
Draft Reports-Miscellaneous Fragments & Chapters
Series III: Printed Reports
Box 14
"Composition & Morale of the Partisan Movement"
Box 14
"History of the First Belorussian Partisan Brigade"
Box 14
"Organization and Control of the Partisan Movement"
Box 14
"The Partisan Movement in the Bryansk Area, 1941-1943"
Box 14
"The Partisan Movement in the Polotsk Lowland"
Box 14
"The Partisan Movement in the Yelnya-Dorogobuzh Area of Smolensk Oblast"
Box 14
"Partisan Psychological Warfare 8c Popular Attitudes under the German Occupation"
Box 14
"Partisan Warfare in the Dnepr Bend Area of the Ukraine"
Box 14
"The Role of Airpower in Partisan Warfare"
Box 14
"The Role of the Partisans in Soviet Intelligence"
Box 14
"Selected Soviet Sources on the World War II Partisan Movement"
Box 14
"The Soviet Partisan Movement in 1941"
Box 14
"Soviet Partisan Movement in the North Caucasus, 1941-1943"
Box 14
"The Soviet Partisan Movement in World War II: Summary & Conclusions"