Their collections include research notes and manuscript drafts of published works and lectures.Picasso, Gauguin, Renoir, to name but a few - the Morozov Collection includes about 200 works by some of the most famous European painters, as well as important works by Russian artists.įor the first time, this extraordinary collection was shown outside Russia, in a blockbuster exhibition held in France.īy early February, more than 1 million people had already visited " The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art," the show held at the Louis Vuitton Foundation museum on the outskirts of Paris. Among them, Richard Pipes and Archibald Cary Coolidge are represented in the collections at the Harvard University Archives. Harvard has been home to many scholars who have written on Russia and its revolution.
Widener Library is home to a wide range of important revolutionary-era periodicals and pamphlets such as Poliarnaia zviezda, Prosvieshchenie, and Okrainy Rossii. The collection contains over 140 digitized images of Shishkina-Iavein and the Russian League for Women's Equal Rights. The Fung Library holds the papers of Poliksena Shishkina-Iavein, a prominent women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the 1917 universal suffrage movement that secured electoral rights for the women of Russia. The collection consists of letters, photos, albums of children's art, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, a ledger, an almanac, and citations. In the early 1920s Davis served as the Director of the South Eastern Base of the American Red Cross in Constantinople, which assisted many of Russia’s refugees fleeing from civil war. The Charles Claflin Davis papers at the Harvard Law School Library offer crucial evidence of the Russian refugee experience. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, ephemera and photographs of well-known figures such as Lenin, Trotsky, and Kerensky, as well as images of daily life in Russia during the revolution. Reed, a Harvard graduate, was an American Socialist who traveled to Russia just before the October Revolution and famously described the events in his book, Ten Days that Shook the World. The making of a first-hand account of the Russian Revolution is found in the John Reed papers, 1910-1920. Two collections held at Houghton offer information on the assasination of the Russian Imperial family (who abdicated in 1917) and the rumored disappearance of the Grand Duchess Anastasia: the Sokolov Collection of documents concerning the investigation into the death of Nicholas II, 1918-1920 and the Edward Huntington Fallows "Anastasia" papers. The Russian civil war is highlighted in the Iuriĭ Nikiforovich Danilov papers which include correspondence with commanders of the Russian White Army. The counter-revolutionary perspective is documented in the papers of figures such as the Social democrat and Duma representative, Grigoriĭ Aleksinskiĭ, and the Grand Duke of Russia, Dmitriĭ Pavlovich. (Toggling the date or publication location on the left-hand side will narrow the search.) The collection can be browsed in HOLLIS using this search.
Works by 19th-century Russian revolutionary writers Mikhail Bakunin and Nikolay Chernyshevsky and early 20th-century revolutionaries such as Anatoly Lunacharsky and Vladimir Lenin document the nuances of the struggle. Houghton is also home to a robust collection-over 1,100 volumes-of revolutionary literature published between 18. It is complemented by Houghton's collection of anti-revolutionary posters. The José María Castañé collection of political broadsides from revolutionary Russia, 1917-1920 is a visually rich collection of striking examples of posters produced by the Bolshevik government to celebrate revolutionary anniversaries and spread information. (The harrowing story of how Harvard obtained Trotsky’s papers is detailed in this Crimson article. Houghton is also home to Trotsky’s Exile Papers, showing his continued impact on world politics. One of Houghton’s most notable revolutionary-related collections is the Leon Trotsky papers from his years in the Soviet Union, including Trotsky’s manuscript speeches and his correspondence with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Chicherin and other members of the early Soviet government. Its impact is documented through pamphlets, literature, newspapers, and the personal papers of revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, and members of the imperial family and army.
Russia’s revolutionary period (1905-1917) reshaped power dynamics throughout the world.