Research in Contemporary Cultures records, 1939-1962, bulk 1947-1952

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Series II: Studies in Soviet Culture, 1939, 1948-1952



Box 18 Folder 8 Outline of Research Project Submitted to the Society of Applied Anthropology by Ruth Benedict, May 10, 1948, with Request for Its Sponsorship in Submission to Project RAND, Santa Monica, California, 1948


Box 18 Folder 9 SSC meeting agendas, 1948 December 7, undated



Box 1 Folder 3-6 Miscellaneous Social Papers, Studies in Soviet Culture, volumes 1-2, 1951-1952, 4 folders


Box 1 Folder 7-12 Studies in Soviet Culture Vols.1-5, #1a-50, 1948-1949, 6 folders



Box 2 Folder 1-11 Studies in Soviet Culture Vol. 6-10, #12a-b, 14, 16 and unnumbered "Three Trials" paper, 1949-1950, 11 folders



Box 16 Folder 1-7 Studies in Soviet Culture, #32-97, 1949, 7 folders


Box 16 Folder 8 Harvard Russian Research Center meetings, 1949 January 7, 1950 February 13-14


Box 16 Folder 9 Working papers by Elena Calas, circa 1948


Box 16 Folder 10 Working Papers by Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1948, 1950


Box 16 Folder 11 SSC internal memo from Margaret Mead, with attachments, 1949 September


Box 16 Folder 12 Working papers by Vera Schwarz


Box 16 Folder 13 Miscellaneous correspondence and memos, most by Margaret Mead, 1948-1951



Box 17 Folder 20 Administrative correspondence: RAND Corporation, 1948-1951



Box 10 Folder 20 Studies in Soviet Culture papers, 1948-1950


Box 10 Folder 25 List of SSC Work Papers Which Have Been Processed, 1948-1950



Box 16 Folder 14 Documents, 1948


Box 16 Folder 14-15 Interviews—Elsa Bernaut (and Margaret Mead), 1950-1951, 2 folders


Box 16 Folder 16 Interviews—Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1949-1950


Box 16 Folder 17-19 Minutes, 1948-1950, 3 folders


Box 16 Folder 20 Rand Report No. 1: "Some Soviet Attitudes Toward Authority", 1951



Box 18 Folder 10 Proposal for a Continuation of the Project Entitled Studies in Soviet Culture, 1949-1950



Box 17 Folder 1-2 Rand Report No. 2: "The Postwar Soviet Image of the United States", 1950, 2 folders


Box 17 Folder 3 Reports—Alex Bavelas: "Communication Patterns in Task-Oriented Groups", 1949


Box 17 Folder 4 Reports—Herbert S. Dinerstein: "Leadership in Soviet Agriculture and the Communist Party", 1949



Box 12 Folder 1 #2 Background Material for Parental Authority in Post-War USSR by Elena Calas, 1948 July 7


Box 12 Folder 2 #3A Parental Authority in Post War USSR by Elena Calas, circa 1948


Box 12 Folder 3 #4 Soviet Attitude Towards Europe by Vera Schwarz, 1948 October 14


Box 12 Folder 4 #6 Outline [of Soviet history] by Elsa Bernaut, 1948 October 26


Box 12 Folder 5 #7 The Communist Party Member (The Evolution of the Ideal Type and the Methods Used to Bring it to Life), by Leopold Haimson and Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1948 October 30


Box 12 Folder 6 #8 Moral Training of Soviet Children by Elena Calas, circa 1948


Box 12 Folder 7 #9 and 9a Treatment of Children's Misbehavior by Elena Calas, 1948 October 8


Box 12 Folder 8 #10 Parental Indulgences of Children by Elena Calas, 1948 October 10


Box 12 Folder 9 #11 Russian Moral Training, Martha Wolfenstein, 1948


Box 12 Folder 10 #12 Images of Non-Conformist and Conformists of the Upper Class in the Soviet Post-War Literature by Vera Schwarz, 1948 November 23


Box 12 Folder 11 #13 Images of Party-Line Communists in the Post-War Soviet Literature by Vera Schwarz, 1948 November 29


Box 12 Folder 12 #14 Silhouette of the Russian Woman by Vera Schwarz, 1948 December 3


Box 12 Folder 13 #15 Russian Film: Admiral Nakhimov, Stanley Theatre, Leites, Wolfenstein, 1948 December 2


Box 12 Folder 14 #16 Additional Material to Modern Soviet Family, In Defence of Olya Petrova by Agnes Barto (in Literaturnaya Gazete) by Vera Schwarz, 1948


Box 12 Folder 15 #17 Images of Militant Non-Conformists and Their Evolutions in the Post-War Literature by Vera Schwarz, 1948 December 10


Box 12 Folder 16 #18 Siblings in Pedagogical Literature by Elena Calas, 1948 December 14


Box 12 Folder 17 #19 Problems of Party Unity—The Tenth Party Congress, 1921; Bukharin on 'Party Construction' at the Tenth Party Congress, 1921, Leopold Haimson and Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1948 December 15


Box 12 Folder 18 #20 Images of the Potential Left-Oppostionists in the Postwar Soviet Literature, Vera Schwarz, 1948 December 16


Box 12 Folder 19 #21 Hygiene of Child's Mental Life Family and School by Elena Calas, 1948 September 25


Box 12 Folder 20 #22 On Sexual Attitudes by Elena Calas, 1948 December 21


Box 12 Folder 21 #23 Exemplary Family Attitudes as Seen in "Family and School" by Elena Calas, 1948 August 10


Box 12 Folder 22 #24 A.S. Makarenko's Views on Family Upbringing by P. Razmyslov by Elena Calas, 1948 February 24


Box 12 Folder 23 #24a Makarenko by Elena Calas, 1947 October 10


Box 12 Folder 24 #25 Education in Comradeship and Friendship by Elena Calas, 1948 August 8


Box 12 Folder 25 #26 Outline of the Treason Trials by Leopold Haimson, 1948 December 23


Box 12 Folder 26 #28 Film: The Symphony of Life by Leites, Wolfenstein, 1948 December 27


Box 12 Folder 27 #29 Contribution of the Soviet Literature to the Problem of Religious Life of the People in USSR by Vera Schwarz, 1948 December 30


Box 12 Folder 28 #30 Theme Paper, 1949 January 4


Box 12 Folder 29 #31 About the Authority of the Komsomol Leader, Molodoi Bolshevik, Hoyt, 1947 May


Box 12 Folder 30 #32 Source Papers, Molodoi Bolshevik, by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949


Box 12 Folder 31 #33 Crocodile (Humorous Magazine), by Elena Calas, 1947 October 10


Box 12 Folder 32 #34 Theme Paper—Brother, Sister, and Cousin Relations by Vera Schwarz, 1949 January 10


Box 12 Folder 33 #35 Film: The Last Night (Dedicated to the Revolutionary Fighters) Produced in 1936, by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 January 19


Box 12 Folder 34 #36 Problems of Party Organization (I) by Leopold Haimson, Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1949



Box 13 Folder 1 #37 Images of Non-Conformists in the Postwar Soviet Literature by Vera Schwarz, 1949 January 25


Box 13 Folder 2 #38 Vocabulary Notes (Source Material) by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 January 25


Box 13 Folder 3 #39 Images of Non-Party People in the Soviet Post-War Literature by Vera Schwarz, 1949 February 2


Box 13 Folder 4 #40 Experience in Pioneer Work—Source Material (Soviet Pedagogy) by Elena Calas, 1949 February 2


Box 13 Folder 5 #41 Analysis of Documents in Studies in Soviet Culture—Introduction, G. Gorer, 1949 February 15


Box 13 Folder 6 #42 Stories by Zoshchenko—Satire, 1922-1925 by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 February 18


Box 13 Folder 7 #43 Satire—Mikhailov: Fables , The Reinsured Fable Writer by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 February 21


Box 13 Folder 8 #44 Source Material—Types of Folklore Which Exist in SU by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 March 9


Box 13 Folder 9 #45 Satire—Zoshchenko, Letters to the Editor, 1922-1925 by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 February 25


Box 13 Folder 10 #46 Satire—Zoshchenko, The Enchanted Villages by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 February 23


Box 13 Folder 11 #47 Images of Soviet Lower Depths in the Postwar Literature by Vera Schwarz, 1949 March 7


Box 13 Folder 12 #48 Satire—Zoshchenko, The Voucher, 1929-1930 by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 February 25


Box 13 Folder 13 #49 A Study of Satire in the Soviet Union by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 March 4


Box 13 Folder 14 #50 New Soviet Literary Purge and its Aims by Vera Schwarz, 1949 March 15


Box 13 Folder 15 #51"Excerpt from a Report" by Sula Benet, 1949 March 10


Box 13 Folder 16 #52 Errors in Manuscript of Geoffrey Gorer (Corrections), circa 1949 March


Box 13 Folder 17 #53 Lecture, Mosely, Philip, 1949 March 15


Box 13 Folder 18 #54 The Party and Industry Introduction, 1949 March 22


Box 13 Folder 19 #55 Children in Juvenile Literature by Elena Calas, 1949 March 28


Box 13 Folder 20 #56 Folklore Source Material—Don't Hide Your Sword (Song Dialogue), 1949


Box 13 Folder 21 #57 Folklore Source Material—The Golden Dawn is Lit, 1949


Box 13 Folder 22 #58 Folklore Source Material—The Legend (Skazanie) about Lenin by Marfa Kriukova, collected by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 March 31


Box 13 Folder 23 #59 Report on Film: Secret Agent by Leites and Wolfenstein, 1949 February


Box 13 Folder 24 #60 Party Leadership in Soviet Agriculture: An Outline and a Statement of Tentative Conclusions, by Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1949 March 31


Box 13 Folder 25 #61 Preliminary Notes on Image of Leader as it Appears in the "Post October" Folklore, by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 April 11


Box 13 Folder 26 #62 Additional Material to the Theme-Paper New Soviet Literary Purges and its Aims by Vera Schwarz, 1949 April 18


Box 13 Folder 27 #63 The Party and Industry—Part 2: Ideal Patterns of Upravlania and Rukovodstvo in Soviet Industry, Chapter 1: The Frames of Reference of Soviet and American Industrial Organization by Leopold Haimson, 1949 April 27


Box 13 Folder 28 #64 Part III Party Leadership in Industry, 1939-1948, by Leopold Haimson, 1949 June 14


Box 13 Folder 29 #65 Interview with a DP Medical Doctor by Sula Benet, 1949 May 5


Box 13 Folder 30 #66 Basic Tendency of Ancient Russian Domostroi, St. Petersburg, 1896, Russkoe Bogagsvo 8, No. 1, by Elena Calas, 1949 June 14


Box 13 Folder 31 #67 Contribution to the Pattern of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Childhood, by Vera Schwarz, 1949 June 27


Box 13 Folder 32 #68 Soviet Youth Training Ideals, The Komsomol, by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 June 28


Box 13 Folder 33 #69 On Toys, Play, Books, and the Post War Child in USSR (from: On Ideology in Educational Work in Kindergarten Pre-School Education, 1948 No. 5, by Elena Calas, 1949 June 30


Box 13 Folder 34 #69A Juvenile Literature, Elena Calas, 1949 July 13


Box 13 Folder 35 #70 Miscellanea by Elena Calas, 1949 July 5



Box 14 Folder 1 #71 Ivanov's Family, Novyi Mir '46 No. 10-11 by Elena Calas, 1949 July 6


Box 14 Folder 2 #72 William Palmer: The Patriarch and the Tsar, Vol. I: The Replies of Nicon Trubner & Co., London, 1871, by Elena Calas, 1949 July 21


Box 14 Folder 3 #73 Introduction to the Translations of Old and New Folklore by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 July 26


Box 14 Folder 4 #74 Jokes About the Komsomol Source Material by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 July 27


Box 14 Folder 5 #75 Image of the West (Preliminary Suggestions) by Vera Schwarz, 1949 July 29


Box 14 Folder 6 #76 Memorandum on "The Image of a Bolshevik" Comentary, 1949 July, Bolshevik, 1949 May 30


Box 14 Folder 7 #77 Memo—The Image of the West, by Elena Calas, 1949 August 3


Box 14 Folder 8 #78 Journal of Moscow Patriarchate—Notes and Abstracts, Texts, Translated by Elena Calas, 1949 May 26


Box 14 Folder 9 #79 Pierre Pascal: Avvakum et les Debuts du Raskols (Centres d'Etudes Russes "Istina"; Paris, 1938 by Elena Calas, 1949 August 3



Box 12 Folder 35 #79 Pierro Pascal: Avvakum et les Debute du Raskols (Centres d'Etudes Russes "Istina"; Paris), 1949 August 3



Box 14 Folder 10 #80 Future Activity in SSC by Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1949 August 3


Box 14 Folder 11 #81 Future Activity in SSC, by E. Bernaut, 1949 August 11


Box 14 Folder 12 #82 Planning Outline for Meeting, 1949 September 3


Box 14 Folder 13 #83 The "Not So, So" Series in the Russian Folklore, by Nelly Schargo Hoyt, 1949 September 13


Box 14 Folder 14 #84 Annotations from Literature to Pedagogical Material by Elena Calas, 1949 September 15


Box 14 Folder 15 #85 Excerpts from Source Paper—SSC 4 for Discussion on Image of the West, 1949 September 28


Box 14 Folder 16 #86 Soviet Attitude Towards Europe (Additional Materials) by Vera Schwarz, 1949 September 30


Box 14 Folder 17 #88 Interviews with Informant HD 2, Introduction by Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1949 October 4


Box 14 Folder 18 #88A Dinerstein—SSC Meeting Minutes, Annotation Inside Folder, 1950 January 12 and 26


Box 14 Folder 19 #89 The Image of the West, Source Material, by Vera Schwarz, 1949 October 7


Box 14 Folder 20 #90 Quotations Selected from Komsomol Materials to Illustrate Points in the "Planning Outline," by Ralph Fisher, 1949 September 20



Box 17 Folder 5 #91 Americanism by Ilya Ehrenburg, 1949 October 27



Box 14 Folder 21 #91 Americanism by Ilya Ehrenburg, 1949 October 27


Box 14 Folder 22 #92 Crocodile: Analysis of Content by Elena Calas, 1949


Box 14 Folder 23 #93 USA in Juvenile Literature by Elena Calas, 1949 November 15


Box 14 Folder 24 #94A Smena (Our Shift) by Elena Calas, 1949 November 30


Box 14 Folder 25 #94 Current Issue of Crocodile, Re: Image of the West, 1949 November 30


Box 14 Folder 26 #95 Comments on "Image of the West," by Margaret Mead, 1949 December 12


Box 14 Folder 27 #96 Source Material for the Image of the West, The Road of Mysery by Yemel'yanov, An Agronomist, by Vera Schwarz, 1949 December 16


Box 14 Folder 28 #97 Source Materials for Image of the West: Survey of Soviet Cartoons of the Years 1947-1949 and Samples of Short Stories and Articles from Current Soviet Press, Illustrating the Attitudes Toward USA, 1949


Box 14 Folder 29 #98 Literary Attitudes Toward, CHEKA-GPU-NKVD-MVD, Soviet Secret Police, 1950 January 4


Box 14 Folder 30 #99 Source Materials Concerning the Great Leader by Vera Schwarz, 1950 January 5


Box 14 Folder 31 #100 The Lower Commanders of the Production, 1950 January 9


Box 14 Folder 32 #101 Insanity in USA as Interrupted in USSR by Vera Schwarz, 1950 January 16


Box 14 Folder 33 #102 Soviet Film: The Young Guard: Comments and Analysis by Margaret Mead, Vera Schwarz, and Nathan Leites, 1950 January 17


Box 14 Folder 34 #102A The Young Guard in Korea, 1951 May 23


Box 14 Folder 36 #102A The Young Guard in Korea by Vera Schwarz, 1951 May 23


Box 14 Folder 35 #103 Image of the West in Pedagogical Literature by Elena Calas, 1950 January 20


Box 14 Folder 36 Soviet Film: "The First Front," by Leopold Haimson, 1950 January 23



Box 15 Folder 1 #105 Image of the West in the Literary Magazines by Elena Calas, 1950 January 23


Box 15 Folder 2 #106 Pioneer Leader by Elena Calas, 1950 January 25


Box 15 Folder 3 #107 Interviews with DP Engineers No. 1, June 20-July 1949, Interview of Leningrad Engineer, 1950 January 27


Box 15 Folder 4 #108 Comments on the Soviet Film—Frontier, Film Made About 1935, 1950 January 30


Box 15 Folder 5 #109 Precis for a Paper on Insanity (Psychopathology) in USA as Claimed by USSR by Elena Calas, 1950 January 3


Box 15 Folder 6 #110 Images of Soviet Insane People by Vera Schwarz, 1950 February 6


Box 15 Folder 7 #111 Image of the West in the Cartoon of New Year's Eve by Vera Schwarz, 1950 February 6


Box 15 Folder 8 #112 Power and Police in USA as Claimed by USSR by Elena Calas, 1950 February 20


Box 15 Folder 9 #113 Source Material: Central Power and Police as Viewed by Soviet Officials by Vera Schwarz, 1950 February 20


Box 15 Folder 10 #115 Crocodile by Elena Calas, 1950 March 8


Box 15 Folder 11 #116 Subject: Objectionable Way of Talking (From Mar'ya Novel in Zvezda No. 4, 5, 6, by Elena Calas, 1950 March 8


Box 15 Folder 12 #117 The Countryman of the President (The Crazy Haberdasher) by A. Sourov Oktiabr, No. 11 '49 Satirical Comedy in 3 Parts by Elena Calas, 1950 March 9


Box 15 Folder 13 #118 Forced Labour in Capitalistic Countries by V.A. Cherpakov by Elena Calas, 1950 March 16


Box 15 Folder 14 #119 Interview with Informant HSD 3 on March 12, 1950, by Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1950 April 14


Box 15 Folder 15 #120 Soviet Reaction to Events in USA, Krokodil, 1949 by Elena Calas, 1950 March 28


Box 15 Folder 16 #121 Vera Schwarz Diagram of News Published in "Pravda" Throughout, the Years 1949 and 1950 Presenting Foreign Policy and Domestic Affairs of USA, 1950 January


Box 15 Folder 17 #122 The Court of Cassation Memorandum by Informant 2, by Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1950 April 17


Box 15 Folder 18 #123 Pro-Soviet Activies in Western Europe (Based on SSC 121 Diagram) by Vera Schwarz, 1950 April 28


Box 15 Folder 19 #124 Villains, Victims, and Heros (Image of the West) by Elena Calas, 1950 May 22


Box 15 Folder 20 #125 Pravda's Answers to Readers Questions (Based on Diagrams, SSC 121), by Vera Schwarz, 1950 April 15


Box 15 Folder 21 #126 On the Aerodromes of American Aviation by P. Khroustalev (This is a Long Article in Novyi Mir, No. 2, 1950 by a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Soviet Air Force Who Had Served in a Distance Bombing Unit), by Elena Calas, 1950 March


Box 15 Folder 22 #127 Police and Central Power in USA (Additional Material), by Vera Schwarz, 1950 March 6


Box 15 Folder 23 #128 Some Comments on the Problem of Interviewing Soviet DPs, by Herbert S. Dinerstein, 1950 May 21


Box 15 Folder 24 #129 Soviet Child-Training Ideals and Their Political Significance, by Elena Calas, circa 1950


Box 15 Folder 25 #130 Minutes, 1948