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Papers documenting the activities of the Socialist Revolutionaries Party, especially of the Party's "Zagranichnaia Delegatsia" (Foreign Delegation). The collection, which for the most part concerns the period after 1920, represents only a fraction of the entire S.R. Archive; another portion is housed at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam, while materials deposited with the Russian Historical Archive in Prague were transferred to the USSR.
The contents of this collection include: correspondence, manuscripts, minutes of "Zagranichnaia Delegatsia" meetings from the 1920s, and financial records both from the Party organization in Russia (1908*1915) and from its Estonian and Finnish affiliates (1922). The collection's subject files are particularly rich in materials on S.R. groups in foreign countries and on Party infiltrators ("provokatory"), including E.F. Azef. The collection also contains photographs of several prominent party members including Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia; printed materials, including the first five issues of A Sotsialist Revoliutsioner (1927-1932); and seals from the offices of the "Zagranichnaia Delegatsia." Correspondents which figure prominently in the collection are: Nikolai D. Avksent'ev, Viktor M. Chernov, Il'ia I. Fondaminskii, Osip S. Minor and Vladimir M. Zenzinov; thereiss one letter by Azef. Much of the pre-1920 correspondence is addressed to Mark A. Natanson; after 1922 a large number of the letters are addressed to Sergei P. Postnikov.
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Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
This collection has no restrictions.
This collection is located on-site.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Source of acquisition--George Kennan. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1950.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.
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