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Series III: Human Rights Activity, 1975-1990s
Series IV: Personal Documents and Biographical Materials, 1939-2003
Series V: Photographs, Art Works, and Video-Audio Materials, 1898-2000s

Raisa Berg Papers, 1898-2006

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Series II: Works and Writings by R.Berg; Research Data and Notes, 1937-2006

The series comprises published and unpublished articles, monographs, papers presented at conferences and congresses, talks, memoirs, reviews, prose and poetry, essays, extensive research notes and data. Arranged in five subseries.

Subseries II.1: Scientific Writings and Works on the History of Science,, 1937-2002

Typescripts, manuscripts, and reprints of writings on Drosophila research, genetics and the history of genetics, general biology and the history of biology. Materials are arranged in several groups: articles and talks, lectures, dissertations, monographs and projects (organized alphabetically within each group); collection of works; reviews, forewords, abstracts, grant proposals, expeditions logbooks, experiments and research logbooks and data (organized chronologically within each group); tables, data, and notes related to various unidentified research and works, slides, photographs, and microfilms with research data and reference materials don't have formal organization.

Articles and Talks (published and unpublished; reprints, typescripts, manuscripts, notes; in English and Russian. See also collection of works in 3 volumes Genetika i evoliutsiia, Boxes 34-35))


Box 27 Folder 1 "Analiz dinamiki mutatsionnogo protsessa v sviazi s izmeneniiami sredy obitaniia u cheloveka na primere chetyrekh form miopatii",, 1972

Box 27 Folder 2 "Dal'neishie issledovaniia po stabiliziruiushchemu otboru v evoliutsii tsvetka",, 1957

Box 27 Folder 3 "Dominance of deleterious mutations in the populations of Drosophila Melanogaster",, 1942

Box 27 Folder 4 "Ecological significance of correlation pleiades", 1960

Box 27 Folder 4 "Ekologicheskaia interpretatsiia korreliatsionnykh pleiad", 1959

Box 27 Folder 5 "Essigfliegen: indicator fur seuchen?", 1975

Box 27 Folder 6 "Fliuktuatsii mutabil'nosti v populiatsiiakh drozofily i cheloveka",, undated

Box 27 Folder 7 "General evolutionary principle underlying the origin of developmental homeostasis",, 1959

Box 27 Folder 8 "Genetic loadas a possible basis of inherent immunity in insects",, undated

Box 27 Folder 9 "Geneticheskii analiz dvukh prirodnykh populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster",, 1941

Box 27 Folder 10 "Geneticheskii analiz populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster Delizhana (Armianskaia SSR)",, 1944

Box 27 Folder 11 "High mutability and hybrid dysgenesis", 1982

Box 27 Folder 12 "Hybridization and selection as tools to reveal and to study the mode of action of mutator genes in natural populations of Drosophila",, 1980s

Box 27 Folder 13 "Inter- und intraspezifische Variabilitat der Flugeladerung in der Familie der Drosophilidae",, 1962

Box 27 Folder 14 "Internal causes of environmental mutagenesis", undated

Box 27 Folder 15 "Istoricheskoe razvitie mekhanizma realizatsii pola", 1942

Box 27 Folder 16 "K probleme povysheniia zimoustoichivosti segoletkov karpa, sazana i ikh gibridov",, 1952

Box 27 Folder 17 "Korreliatsiia mezhdu mutabil'nost'iu i reguliatornoi sposobnost'iu organizma i ee evoliutsionnoe znachenie",, 1945

Box 27 Folder 18 "Korreliatsionnye pleiady", undated

Box 27 Folder 19 "Korreliatsionnye pleiady priznakov u Veronica Serpyllifolia L., V.Chamedrys L. i V.Krylovii Schischk",, 1971

Box 27 Folder 20 "Korreliatsionnye pleiady u rastenii", 1961

Box 27 Folder 21 "Kuidas inimesest sai mikroobi mudel?", 1973

Box 27 Folder 22 "Lowering of the mutation rate as a result of intraspecific hybridization",, 1941

Box 27 Folder 23 "Mesto teorii stabiliziruiushchego otbora I.I.Shmal'gauzena v sovremennykh evoliutsionnykh vozzreniiakh",, undated

Box 27 Folder 24 to 25 "Mutability changes in Drosophila melanogaster populations of Europe, Asia, and North America and probable mutability changes in human populations of the USSR",, 1981-1982

Box 27 Folder 26 "Mutabil'nost' populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster, obitaiushchikh na granitse areala rasprostraneniia vida",, 1942

Box 27 Folder 27 "Mutation rate in populations of Drosophila melanogaster inhabiting boundary areas of the species distribution",, 1942


Box 28 Folder 1 to 5 "Mutator genes in population life and evolution and the membrane hypothesis of mutagenesis",, 1990s

Box 28 Folder 6 "Mutatsiia 'zheltaia' (yellow) v populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster g. Umani",, 1961

Box 28 Folder 7 "Mutatsii steril'nosti u Drosophila melanogaster", 1938

Box 28 Folder 8 "Nasleduiutsia li priobretennye priznaki?", undated

Box 28 Folder 9 "O nekotorykh mekhanizmakh, obespechivaiushchikh optimal'noe chislo naborov khromosom",, 1963

Box 28 Folder 9 "O nekotorykh usloviiakh poiavleniia zhizni na Zemle", 1959

Box 28 Folder 10 "O putiakh evoliutsii genotipa", 1961

Box 28 Folder 11 "O vzaimootnoshenii mezhdu mutabil'nost'iu i otborom v prirodnykh populiatsiiakh Drosophila melanogaster",, 1948

Box 28 Folder 12 "O zakonomernostiakh evoliutsii na primere kompleksnykh preobrazovanii priznakov pri divergentsii vidov veronik (Veronika L., Scrophulariaceae)",, undated

Box 28 Folder 13 "Observation on mutation rate fluctuation in man. Materials and methods",, undated

Box 28 Folder 14 "On mutations at the yellow and singed Loci in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster",, 1976

Box 28 Folder 15 "On populations of Drosophila melanogaster preserving different mutatition frequencies when transferred to identical conditions",, 1942


Box 29 Folder 1 to 4 "On probable mutability fluctuations in human populations of the USSR paralleled by mutability fluctuations in Drosophila melanogaster populations",, 1983

Box 29 Folder 5 "On the dynamics of the mutation process in man", 1974

Box 29 Folder 6 "On the probable mutability changes in human populations of the USSR",, undated


Box 30 Folder 1 "On the sudden and synchronous rise of the abnormal abdomen phenotype in geographically isolated populations of the USSR",, undated

Box 30 Folder 2 "Otnositel'naia rol' mutatsionnogo protsessa i otbora v formirovanii fenotipicheskogo oblika populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster v sviazi s iavleniiami geneticheskoi nestabil'nosti",, undated

Box 30 Folder 3 to 4 Pis'mo uchastnikam konferentsii "Evoliutsiia vselennoi", 2002

Box 30 Folder 5 "Ponizhennaia chastota vozniknoveniia mutatsii pri vnutrividovoi gibridizatsii",, 1941

Box 30 Folder 6 "Populiatsionno-geneticheskii podkhod k izucheniiu dinamiki mutatsionnogo protsessa na primere chetyrekh form miopatii",, 1973

Box 30 Folder 7 "Probable mutability changes in human populations of the USSR and in Drosophila populations of Europe, Asia, and North America",, undated

Box 30 Folder 8 "Probable mutability fluctuations in human populations of the USSR, paralleled by mutability fluctuations in Drosophila melanogaster populations",, undated

Box 30 Folder 9 "Problema tselostnosti zhivykh system v trudakh I.I.Shmal'gauzena",, 1966

Box 30 Folder 10 "Proiskhodit li eliminatsiia osobei geterozigotnykh po letal'nym mutatsiiam v estestvennykh populiatsiiakh Drosophila melanogaster?",, 1943

Box 30 Folder 11 "Properties of ex eye, a mutant with extra eyes", undated

Box 30 Folder 12 "Relative frequency of mutations in different chromosomes of drosophila melanogaster",, 1937

Box 30 Folder 13 "Relative mutation frequencies in Drosophila chromosomes", 1934

Box 30 Folder 14 "Relative roles of stabilization and redifferentiation of the gene in the evolution of the hereditary substance",, 1937

Box 30 Folder 15 "Restriction of P-element insertions at the notch locus of Drosophila melanogaster",, 1987

Box 30 Folder 16 "Rol' malykh mutatsii v evoliutsii mutabil'nosti", 1941

Box 30 Folder 17 "Role of isolation in the evolution of dominance in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster",, 1942

Box 30 Folder 18 "Seminar po evoliutsionnym problemam v Botanicheskom institute im. V.L. Komarova AN SSSR",, 1957

Box 30 Folder 19 "Sind mikroben fur degenerationserscheinungen verantwortlich?", 1974

Box 30 Folder 20 "Site-specific X-chromosome rearrangements from hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila melanogaster",, 1980

Box 30 Folder 21 "Sluchaina ili zakonomerna evoliutsiia", undated


Box 31 Folder 1 "Sokhranenie razlichnoi mutabil'nosti populiatsiiami Drosophila melanogaster pri perenose ikh v odinakovye usloviia",, 1942

Box 31 Folder 2 "Sopostavlenie dinamiki mutatsionnogo protsessa u filogeneticheski otdalennykh form na primere drozofily i cheloveka",, 1970

Box 31 Folder 3 "Sopostavlenie vnutrividovoi i mezhvidovoi izmenchivosti u veronik (rod Veronika)",, 1973

Box 31 Folder 4 "Soveshchanie po primeneniiu matematicheskikh metodov v biologii",, 1958

Box 31 Folder 5 "Spontaneous mutation process in geographically isolated populations of Drosophila melanogaster and its dependence upon hybridization",, undated

Box 31 Folder 6 "Struktura i razvitie", 1962

Box 31 Folder 7 "Studies in mutability in geographically isolated populations of Drosophila melanogaster during 1937-1941 1944-1947 and from 1957 until now", 1983, 1937-1941, 1944-1947, 1957, 1983

Box 31 Folder 8 "System der mutator-suppressor gene eine zukunstsanpassung bei Drosophila melanogaster",, undated

Box 31 Folder 9 "Tipy polimorfizma", 1957

Box 31 Folder 10 to 14 "Vid kak evoliutsioniruiushchaia sistema", 1944

Box 31 Folder 15 "Vse dorogi vedut k mikrobam", undated

Box 31 Folder 16 "Zavisimoe var'irovanie mutabil'nosti i dominantnosti v predelakh odnoj estestvennoi populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster",, 1944

Box 31 Folder 17 "Zavisimost' mezhdu mutabil'nost'iu i stepen'iu izoliatsii populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster",, 1942

Box 31 Folder 18 "Zavisimost' mezhdu stepen'iu proiavlenii mutatsii v geterozigotnom sostoianii i ikh kontsentratsiei v genotype estestvennykh populiatsii Drosophila melanogaster",, 1944

Box 31 Folder 19 "Znachenie izoliatsii dlia evoliutsii dominantnosti v estestvennykh populiatsiiakh Drosophila melanogaster",, 1942

Lectures

Box 31 Folder 20 Manuscripts for lectures in Germany, undated

Box 31 Folder 21 [History of Genetics]: syllabus, 1972

Box 31 Folder 21 "Teoriia evoliutsii" (syllabus), undated

Dissertations


Box 32 Folder 1 "Nekotorye dannye k voprosu ob evoliutsii nasledstvennogo veshchestva", Leningrad, 1939 (typescript), 1939

Box 32 Folder 2 "Stabiliziruiushchij otbor v evoliutsii razmerov tsvetkov i semian travianistykh rastenii", Leningrad, 1964 (author's abstract, printed), 1964

Monographs and Projects:

Box 32 Folder 3 Nasledstvennost' i nasledstvennye bolezni cheloveka. Leningrad: Nauka, 1971 (including review by V.Efroimson), 1971

"On the history of Genetics in the Soviet Union", 1980s (typescripts, manuscripts, drafts):, 1980s

Box 32 Folder 4 to 6 "Fate of genetics in the USSR. A battle for intellectual freedom. Insight of a witness."

Box 32 Folder 7 to 13 "On genetics in the Soviet Union"


Box 33 Folder 1 to 5 "On genetics in the Soviet Union"

Box 33 Folder 6 to 12 "On the history of genetics in the Soviet Union. Science and politics. The insight of a witness"


Box 34 Folder 1 to 7 "Two types of intellectuals in Soviet Russia and their role in the history of genetics in the USSR"

Collection of works in 3 volumes Genetika i evoliutsiia, , 2000

Box 34 Folder 8 Foreword

Box 34 Folder 9 to 12 Early articles (typescripts)

Box 34 Folder 13 to 16 Works for 1st volume (typescripts, reprints, photocopies)


Box 35 Folder 1 List of works for 2nd volume

Box 35 Folder 2 to 3 Works for various volumes

Box 35 Folder 4 List of corrections

Box 35 Folder 5 Petition to the Soros Foundation for funding

Box 35 Folder 6 Letters of recommendation and reviews addressed to the Soros Foundation (signed by Aleksandr Ginzburg, V.V.Babkov, V.K.Shumnyi)

Box 35 Folder 7 to 11 Reviews, 1973-1996

Box 35 Folder 12 Foreword to Mekhanizmy biologicheskoi konkurentsii, , 1964

Abstracts, 1940s-1990s

Box 35 Folder 13 1940s-1960s

Box 35 Folder 14 1970s

Box 35 Folder 15 1980s

Box 35 Folder 16 1990s

Box 35 Folder 17 Undated

Grant proposals and reports, 1970s-1990s (including related correspondence. See also Series I--Subseries I.2: Correspondence with Organizations), 1970s-1990s

Box 35 Folder 18 to 25 1970s-1980s


Box 36 Folder 1 to 5 1990s

Box 36 Folder 6 to 9 Undated

Expeditions Logbooks, Experiments and Research Logbooks and Data:

Box 36 Folder 10 to 13 1973-1974 Ararat, Dilizhan, Magarach, 1973-1974


Box 37 Folder 1 to 3 1975-1976

Box 37 Folder 4 to 7 1977


Box 38 Folder 1 to 3 1978

Box 38 Folder 4 1979

Box 38 Folder 5 1980

Box 38 Folder 6 1983


Box 39 Folder 1 1984

Box 39 Folder 2 to 3 1985


Box 40 Folder 1 to 2 1988

Box 40 Folder 3 1991

Box 40 Folder 4 1993 Fialki, 1993

Box 40 Folder 5 to 9 Undated


Box 41 Folder 1 to 15 Tables, data, and notes related to various unidentified research and works, various dates


Box 42 Folder 1 to 26 Slides, photographs, and microfilms with research data and reference materials (including 6 microfilm reels)

Subseries II.2: Memoirs, 1980s-1990s

Manuscripts and typescripts of R. Berg's memoirsSukhovei,its English translationAcquired Traits; Zolotye rytsari v strane sotsializma,and memoir note on Iosif Brodskii. There are also reviews on published memoirs and related materials.

Sukhovei (Russian):


Box 43 Folder 1 to 14 Manuscript, pp. 357-716


Box 44 Folder 1 to 3 Foreword, afterword, list of illustrations

Box 44 Folder 4 to 8 Loose parts

Box 44 Folder 9 to 12 Drafts, corrections, related materials

Box 44 Folder 13 Reviews, 1983-1985

Acquired Traits (English translation of Sukhovei):

Box 44 Folder 14 to 17 Typescript, pp. 1-174

Box 44 Folder 18 to 19 Loose parts and pages

Box 44 Folder 20 Reviews, 1987-1990

Zolotye rytsari v strane sotsializma:


Box 45 Folder 1 to 5 Manuscript, pp.1-253

Box 45 Folder 6 Typescript, pp.1-200

Box 45 Folder 7 Related materials

Box 45 Folder 8 Memoir note on Iosif Brodskii, undated

Subseries II.3: Essays about Various People and on Popular Science; Publicistic Works,, 1950s-2006

Published and unpublished articles and essays; radioscripts; reprints, typescripts, manuscripts, notes; related research materials. Arranged in few groups: personalia, popular science, publicistic works. Contains Manuscripts, typescripts, reprints, andclippings. See also Subseries II.1--Collection of works in 3 volumesGenetika i evoliutsiia:Box 34, Folders 8-16

Personalia (essays, articles, and research materials about various persons. Manuscripts, typescripts, reprints, clippings):


Box 46 Folder 1 Astaurov, Boris:

Box 46 Folder 1 "Life and research of Boris L. Astaurov", 1979

Avetisian, Minas:

Box 46 Folder 2 "Minas Avetisian - Esenin armianskogo sela", 1989

Box 46 Folder 2 "Tragicheskaia sud'ba Minasa Avetisiana", 1988

Berg, Lev Semenovich:

Box 46 Folder 3 [Berg about Berg], undated

Box 46 Folder 4 "Ekspeditsiia L.S.Berga na ozero Balkhash", 1955

Box 46 Folder 5 "Iz istorii ekspeditsionnykh issledovanii L.S.Berga", 1950s

Box 46 Folder 6 "Na ostrovakh Aral'skogo moria", 1954

Box 46 Folder 7 Script for BBC, undated

Box 46 Folder 8 "Zapiski ob ottse", 2000

Box 46 Folder 9 Notes and related materials

Delone, Vadim:

Box 46 Folder 10 "Vadim Delone i ego kniga", undated

Box 46 Folder 11 "Vadim Delone, sinii gusar dvadtsatogo veka", undated

Box 46 Folder 12 About Vadim Delone by other authors (clippings), 1985-1998

Egiaian, Gregor:

Box 46 Folder 13 "V poiskakh Gregora Egiaiana", 1988

Ignatov, P.G.:

Box 46 Folder 14 "Teletskaia ekspeditsiia P.G.Ignatova 1901 g.", 1957, 1901, 1957

Lichkov, Boris Leonidovich:

Box 46 Folder 15 Biographical essay for Dictionaire du Darwinisme, , 1996

Liubishchev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich:

Box 46 Folder 16 to 17 Biographical essay for Dictionaire du Darwinisme,, 1996


Folder 1 Poliakov, Lev:


Box 47 Folder 1 "Lirika i satira L'va Poliakova", 1988

Box 47 Folder 1 Notes, album of his photographs, related materials

Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich:

Box 47 Folder 2 "Moi vstrechi s Sakharovym", 1997

Box 47 Folder 2 "O Sakharove", 1996 (script for BBC), 1996

Shmal'gauzen, Ivan Ivanovich:

Box 47 Folder 3 to 6 "Ivan Ivanovich Shmal'gauzen", undated (Russian, English, French), undated

Box 47 Folder 7 "Raboty Ivana Ivanovicha Shmal'gauzena po embriologii pozvonochnykh I ego teoriia stabiliziruiushchego otbora",, undated

Timofeev-Resovskii, Nikolai Vladimirovich:

Box 47 Folder 8 Endless defense, 1992 (letter to editors), 1992

Box 47 Folder 9 to 12 "In defense of Timofeev-Ressovsky", 1990

Box 47 Folder 13 "Nikolai Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskii", undated

Box 47 Folder 14 "Nikolai Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskii", 1981 (obituary), 1981

Box 47 Folder 15 to 16 "N.V.Timofeev-Resovsky did not collaborate with the Nazis", 1991

Box 47 Folder 17 to 19 "Nikolai Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskii - obitatel' dvukh mirov",, 1988


Box 48 Folder 1 "V zashchitu N.V.Timofeeva-Resovskogo", 1990

Box 48 Folder 2 "Why does Muller-Hill accuse Timofeev-Resovsky?", 1988

Box 48 Folder 3 Research and related materials

Tsvetaeva, Marina:

Box 48 Folder 4 "Moia Tsvetaeva", undated

Vernadskii, Vladimir Ivanovich:

Box 48 Folder 5 "V.I.Vernadskii. Sotsial'nye prognozy i zabluzhdeniia", undated

Box 48 Folder 6 to 9 [Vernadskii], manuscript, undated

Box 48 Folder 10 [Vernadskii], script for BBC, 1993

Box 48 Folder 11 "Vernadskii. Osushchestvivshiesia prognozy i zabluzhdeniia", 2006

Box 48 Folder 12 "Vernadskij", biographical essay for Dictionaire du Darwinisme , undated

Box 48 Folder 13 to 15 Drafts

Box 48 Folder 16 to 17 Research and related materials

Box 48 Folder 18 Volodin, Boris Genrikhovich, undated


Box 49 Folder 1 to 9 Popular Science:

Box 49 Folder 1 "Khudozhestvennye zhanry natury", undated

Box 49 Folder 1 "Kordebalet spiashchikh mukh", 1990s

Box 49 Folder 2 "Povest' o genetike", 1980

Box 49 Folder 3 to 6 "Vremia i prostranstvo zhizni", undated

Box 49 Folder 7 "Yeast, raisins, bombs and fruit flies", 1980

Box 49 Folder 8 "Zakonomerna li evoliutsiia, ili Pochemu kuritsa ne revnuet", undated

Box 49 Folder 9 Scripts for BBC, 1990s

Publicistic Works:

Box 49 Folder 10 "K semidesiatiletiiu publikatsii stat'i Stalina 'Golovokruzhenie ot uspekhov' 2 marta 1930 goda v gazete 'Pravda'", 2000, 1930, 2000

Box 49 Folder 11 "Moi monozigoticheskii bliznets", undated

Box 49 Folder 12 "Ostorozhnyi polulegal Daniil Granin", 1988

Box 49 Folder 13 "Regenerating capitalism…", undated

Box 49 Folder 14 to 15 "Sravnitel'nyi analiz elementarnykh sredstv vyrazheniia raznykh vidov iskusstv",, 1963

Box 49 Folder 16 "Stikhiino-informatsionnyi rynok Sovetskogo Soiuza, ego istoki i vzaimootnosheniia s sotsialisticheskoi ekonomikoi v tselom",, undated

Box 49 Folder 17 "Zemel'naia reforma Stalina i kul't ego lichnosti", undated

Subseries II.4: Prose and Poetry, 1940s-1990s

Manuscripts and typescripts of Berg's original prose and poetry of various years.

Prose (manuscripts):


Box 50 Folder 1 to 4 "Skazki antimira", 1960s-1970s

Box 50 Folder 5 to 6 "Ulybka sapozhnika", 1950s-1990s (short stories), 1950s-1990s

Box 50 Folder 7 "Velikoe i smeshnoe", undated (short stories, incomplete), undated

Box 50 Folder 8 to 10 Poetry of various years, 1940s-1990s (English, Russian. Manuscripts, typescripts). See also: "To James F.Crow commemorating his birthday and his return from La Yolla", 1979 (poem, holograph manuscript) in Series I: Correspondence--Subseries I.1: Correspondence with Individuals--Crow (Box 3, Folder 16) and "To Professor Sewall Wright on the occasion of his 89th birthday" (poem, holograph manuscript) in Series I: Correspondence--Subseries I.1: Correspondence with Individuals--Wright (Box 20, Folder 9), 1940s-1990s, 1979

Subseries II.5: Fragments, extracts, notes, and loose pages from various unidentified works, various dates

Box 50 Folder 11 to 22 Fragments, extracts, notes, and loose pages from various unidentified works, various dates