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Series II: Writings, 1951-1994
Series VI: Colloquia and Conferences, 1975-1991
Series VII: Editorial Activity, 1964-1974
Series XII: CVs and Photographs, 1960s-1990s
Series XIII: Maps, 1900s
Series XV: Digital Files

Leopold Haimson Papers, 1890s-1999

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Series VIII: Institutional Files, 1956-1990s

Institutional materials accrued by Haimson during his work at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the Harriman Institute make up this series. Subject files contain internal institutional documents and correspondence, Haimson's correspondence with various organizations, grant applications and proposals, correspondence with publishers of his books, and materials regarding the Menshevik project. Organized into two subseries.

Subseries VIII.1: Chicago University Files, 1956-1966

This subseries includes subject files related to Haimson's work at Chicago University. Files organized in alphabetical order by subject.

Columbia University, 1960-1964


Box 89 Folder 1 Columbia Travel Service, 1961

Box 89 Folder 1 Program on East Central Europe, 1962

(Ihor Shevchenko)

Box 89 Folder 1 Varia

Committee on Slavic Studies: see Slavic Committee

Grants:

Box 89 Folder 2 Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, 1956-1961

Box 89 Folder 3 Mandel Faculty, 1960-1964

Box 89 Folder 3 Social Science Research Committee, 1962

History Department:

Box 89 Folder 4 Memos, 1961-1962

Box 89 Folder 5 Appointments, 1960-1963

General internal correspondence, 1959-1964

Box 89 Folder 6 Clive, John

Box 89 Folder 6 Cotton, Albert

Box 89 Folder 6 Greene, Greta

Box 89 Folder 6 Harris, Chauncy

Box 89 Folder 6 Johnson, Walter

Box 89 Folder 6 McNeill, William

Box 89 Folder 6 Unidentified

Box 89 Folder 7 Class lists and rosters, 1957-1959, 1964, 1957-1959, 1964

Box 89 Folder 8 Reading lists for Russian history courses, undated, 1962

Library:

Correspondence on Slavic acquisitions and exchange, 1959-1965

Box 89 Folder 9-13 Anderle, Josef

Box 89 Folder 9-13 Fussler, Herman

Box 89 Folder 9-13 Prague

Box 89 Folder 9-13 Varia

Box 89 Folder 14 Lists for exchange

Box 89 Folder 15 Reports and memos on book exchanges and purchases in Russia, 1961-1962

Box 89 Folder 16 Sabo-Slavic books catalog

(See also: Series III: Menshevik project--Subseries III.1: Project records--Sub-subseries III.1.1: Correspondence--Library, Box 15, Folders 12-13)

Box 89 Folder 17 Office of the Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences, 1961-1964

Box 89 Folder 18-19 Russian Civilization Group, 1958-1962

(minutes, letters, readings lists, term papers requirements, course planning, notes)

Russian Program:


Box 90 Folder 1 Proposals, 1959-1961

(with related correspondence)

Ford negotiations files:

Box 90 Folder 2 Correspondence, 1960-1961

Box 90 Folder 3-6 Proposals, drafts, 1960-1961

Box 90 Folder 7-8 Slavic Committee, 1962

(memos, proposals)

Students

(personal files, recommendations, related correspondence)

Box 90 Folder 9 General, 1959-1965

Box 90 Folder 10-14 Personal files, 1959-1966

(in alphabetical order)

Subseries VIII.2: Columbia University Files, 1966-1990s

This subseries includes subject files related to Haimson's work at Columbia University. Files arranged alphabetically by subject.


Box 91 Folder 1 File index

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 1960-1987

Box 91 Folder 2 Grant applications and correspondence

(See also: Series III: Menshevik Project--Subseries III.1: Project records--Sub-subseries III.1.1: Correspondence--Menshevik interviews correspondence, Box 15, Folder 14)

American Historical Association: Correspondence on American-Soviet conferences and Soviet historians visits, 1970-1980

Box 91 Folder 3 ACLS

Box 91 Folder 3 Arden House

Box 91 Folder 3 Harvard University - Russian Research Center

Box 91 Folder 3 IREX

Box 91 Folder 4 American Philosophical Society: Correspondence, 1972-1977

Box 91 Folder 5 Artran Foundation: Grant proposal and correspondence, 1980, 1983, 1980, 1983

Box 91 Folder 6 Bakhmeteff Committee (formerly: Humanities Committee): Grant proposal and application from the Humanities Fund, 1971, 1971, 1977, 1971, 1971, 1977

Box 91 Folder 7 Bibliographic Information: lists of newspapers and archives, 1971-1977

(with related correspondence)

Bradley Foundation: see Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

Cambridge University Press: see Series I: Correspondence--Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence--Sub-subseries I.4.3: Publishers, Box 11, Folders 5-6

Box 91 Folder 8 Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1976-1985

Box 91 Folder 9 Center for the Social Sciences, 1986

Box 91 Folder 10 Columbia University crisis of 1968 Internal correspondence, memos, circular letters, 1968

Box 91 Folder 11 Conference on 1917 Circular letters, drafts of documents, 1976, 1917, 1976

Department of History: see History Department

Box 91 Folder 12 Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sociales et Economiques, 1980-1987

Box 91 Folder 13 Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes: Correspondence, applications, research notes, 1972-1977

(See also: Series I: Correspondence--Subseries I.2: General correspondence--Heller, C. (Box 3, Folder 10); Series III: Menshevik project--Subseries III.1: Project records--Sub-subseries III.1.1: Correspondence-- Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Box 15, Folder 1); Other files of Menshevik project correspondence)

Box 91 Folder 14 Employment announcements, 1966-1987

(job openings and recommendations. Arranged in chronological order)


Box 92 Folder 1 Faculty Elections Bureau, 1970

Box 92 Folder 2-3 Faculty Peace Action, 1970-1971

Box 92 Folder 4-5 Ford Foundation, 1965-1990

(correspondence, grant proposals and applications)

Box 92 Folder 6 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1986, 1994, 1986, 1994

(memos, letters)

Box 92 Folder 7 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1963-1965

(John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Correspondence, research proposal, background information)

Harriman Institute (Russian Institute):

(See also files on Menshevik Project funding of 1961-1968 in: Series III: Menshevik Project--Subseries III.1: Project Records--Sub-subseries: III.1.4: Grant Files, Box 18, Folder 18)

Box 92 Folder 8-9 Foundation of the Harriman Institute, 1982

(documents, clippings, notes)

Box 92 Folder 10 Business plan, 1982-1986

Box 92 Folder 11 Memoranda, 1966-1994

Box 92 Folder 12-13 Faculty and Committee meetings, 1971-1987


Box 93 Folder 1 Courses, 1964-1987

Box 93 Folder 2 Workshops, 1984-1992

(circular letters)

Box 93 Folder 3-6 Publications, 1970-1983

(publication committee, publication reports, reading reports, correspondence)

Box 93 Folder 7 Fellowships, 1971-1986

(announcements, recommendations, applications)

Box 93 Folder 8-10 General correspondence, 1965-1990s

Box 93 Folder 11 Marshall D. Shulman Dinner, 1986

Printed material

Box 93 Folder 12 Information packet, 1984-1985

Box 93 Folder 13 Harriman Institute newsletter, 1990s

Box 93 Folder 14 Varia

Harvard University:


Box 94 Folder 1 Department of History, 1966-1971

Box 94 Folder 2 Russian Research Center: Correspondence, memos, and fellowships applications, 1948-1971

Box 94 Folder 3 Summer School, 1966-1967

Box 94 Folder 4-12 Harvard-Columbia Russian Studies Fund, 1974-1982

(memoranda, correspondence, constituent documents, reports, clippings)

Harvard University Press: see Publishers

History department:

Box 94 Folder 13 Appointment, 1964-1966

(correspondence with Robert Cross re: Haimson's appointment to Columbia)

General, 1966-1989

(correspondence, memos, documents, CVs)

Box 94 Folder 14-15 1966-1969


Box 95 Folder 1-2 1970-1989

Box 95 Folder 3 Course offerings, 1967-1968, 1982-1997, 1967-1968, 1982-1997

(course descriptions, syllabus, readings, requirements)

Box 95 Folder 4 Search committee on Russian History, 1986-1987

Humanities Fund: see Bakhmeteff Committee

Indiana University Press: see Series I: Correspondence--Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence--Sub-subseries I.4.3: Publishers (Box 11, Folder 12)

Box 95 Folder 5 Institute for Advanced Studies, 1969-1970

Institute of War and Peace Studies: see School of International Affairs

Box 95 Folder 6-7 Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, 1966-1980, (documents, memos, reports, material related to scholarly exchanges and relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe)

(See also files of 1956-1961 in: Subseries VIII.1: Chicago University Files--Grants-- Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, Box 89, Folder 2)

Box 95 Folder 8-10 IREX / International Research and Exchange Board, 1969-1989

(correspondence, data sheets, proposals)

Journal of Modern History: see Sub-subseries I.4.3: Publishers (Box 11, Folder 13)

Box 95 Folder 11 Kamkin Corporation (Viktor Kamkin bookstore), 1977-1988

Box 95 Folder 12 Kennan Institute, 1981

(grant proposal)

Knopf Inc. (Alfred A. Knopf): see Serie I: Correspondence--Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence--Sub-subseries I.4.3: Publishers (Box 11, Folder 1)

Box 95 Folder 13 Lehrman Foundation, 1976

(description of project)

Box 95 Folder 14 Libraries, 1988

(Search for a Slavic and Eastern Europe Bibliographer)

Box 95 Folder 15 Library Committee, 1966-1970

(correspondence, memos)

Library Exchange, 1965-1968

(See also: Series IX: Russian Files, Boxes 100-101 and Subseries VIII.1: Chicago University Files--Library, Box 89, Folders 9-16)

Box 95 Folder 16 Karlowich, Robert: correspondence and reports


Box 96 Folder 1 Livres Etrangers, S.A., 1966-1979

Box 96 Folder 2 Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, 1988

(grant proposal)

Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, (correspondence, documents, memoranda, etc.)

(See also: Series I: Correspondence--Subseries I.2: General correspondence--Heller, C., Box 3, Folder 10)

Box 96 Folder 3 Master file, 1983-1986

Box 96 Folder 4 Seminars de F.Braudel, 1975

Box 96 Folder 5-6 Colloquium, 1982

Box 96 Folder 7-12 Projects and correspondence, 1980-1997

Box 96 Folder 13 Publications, 1982

Box 96 Folder 14 Mac Arthur Foundation, 1990-1992

National Council for Soviet and East European Research

(grant proposals, applications, letters)


Box 97 Folder 1-2 1985-1986 "Quantitative and qualitative studies on industrial strikes and other social conflicts in Imperial Russia (1905-1907)", 1985-1986

Box 97 Folder 3 1991 "History of the Menshevik Party during the Revolution of 1917", 1991

Box 97 Folder 4 1994

National Endowment in the Humanities/NEH

(proposals, correspondence)

Grant proposals, 1972-1993

Box 97 Folder 5-11 1972-1988


Box 98 Folder 1-3 1989-1993

Box 98 Folder 4 Reports

Box 98 Folder 5-8 Correspondence, 1972-1992

Box 98 Folder 9-12 National Science Foundation /NSF, 1977-1987

(drafts and original grant proposals, correspondence, notes, notebooks, Haimson's CV)


Box 99 Folder 1-8 National Science Foundation /NSF, 1977-1987 (continuation), 1977-1987

Box 99 Folder 9 Office of the Secretary, 1966-1968

Box 99 Folder 10 President's Room, 1968-1970

Box 99 Folder 11 Reid Hall, 1972-1974

Box 99 Folder 12 Research Institute on Communist Affairs, 1973

(correspondence with Zbigniew Brzezinski)

Box 99 Folder 13 Research proposals

(random incomplete drafts of some Haimson's research proposals)

Box 99 Folder 14 Rockefeller Foundation, 1968-1969

Russian Institute: see Harriman Institute

Box 99 Folder 15 School of International Affairs, 1966-1974

Students, 1965-1993

(Information on Columbia students is also a part of various subject files, such as: Harriman Institute--Fellowships; History Department--Fellowships; Employment openings; Correspondence, etc)


Box 100 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1965-1993

(random selection of correspondence regarding students of the History department and Harriman Institute. Arranged in chronological order then alphabetically within the year)

Box 100 Folder 2 Class rosters, 1967-1971

Box 100 Folder 3 List of graduate students, 1985-1987

Box 100 Folder 4 Unesco, 1994

(budget report of grant)