Papers, 1900-1943 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1900-1943 (inclusive).

Contains correspondence, reports, lectures, notes, translations, interviews, diaries, official documents, broadsides, circulars, calling cards, engagement and address books, postcards, press releases, Tsarist émigré publications, a manuscript of The Russia I Believe In, and photographs. Includes material relating to Harper's interest in modern Russian politics and institutions, such as accounts of the Revolution and early Bolshevik government. Also includes interviews with Leo Tolstoy, Aleksandr Dmitrievich Protopopov, Petr Stolypin, Petr B. Struve, Alesksandr I. Guchkov, and Feliks Dzerzhinskii. Correspondents include Boris Bakhmetev, Allen J. Carter, Charles R. Crane, Richard T. Crane, Frederick Dixon, Loy Henderson, J. Edgar Hoover, W. Chain Huntington, Michael Karpovich, Robert J. Kerner, Jerome Landfield, John R. Mott, Bernard Pares, Leo Pasvolsky, DeWitt Poole, Walter S. Roger, Edgar Sisson, Pitirim A. Sorokin, and Roger H. William. Contains the Harper-Jameson study on the authenticity of the Sisson documents regarding an alleged German-Bolshevik consipiracy as well as material relating to Harper's work as special assistant of the Russian Division of the State Department.

40.5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7651671

University of Chicago Library

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Kerner, Robert Joseph, 1887-1956

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Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943

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Parés, Bernard (1867-1949).

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Henderson, Loy W. (Loy Wesley), 1892-1986

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Hoover, J.Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

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