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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf996nb3ks No online items Register of the American Relief Administration Russian operational records Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff Hoover Institution Library and Archives © 1998, 2021 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6003 [email protected] URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Register of the American Relief 23003 1 Administration Russian operational records Title: American Relief Administration Russian operational records Date (inclusive): 1919-1925 Collection Number: 23003 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: English Physical Description: 556 manuscript boxes, 2 cubic foot boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders(234.6 Linear Feet) Abstract: Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories, financial records, lists, press summaries, and photographs relating to American relief in the Soviet Union following the Russian Civil War, and food and public health problems, agriculture, economic conditions, transportation and communications, and political and social developments, in the Soviet Union. Creator: Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Creator: United States. Navy Creator: American Relief Administration Creator: American National Red Cross Creator: American Friends Service Committee Creator: Near East Relief (Organization) Creator: United States Grain Corporation Creator: Litvinov, M. M. (Maksim Maksimovich), 1876-1951 Creator: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930 Creator: Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936 Creator: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Creator: American Mennonite Central Committee Creator: National Lutheran Council Creator: Save the Children Fund (Great Britain) Hoover Institution Library & Archives Access Microfilm use only except Boxes 395-411, 560-561, and map case items; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Original cloth samples removed from box 454 are restricted. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1923. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], American Relief Administration. Russian operational records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Alternative Form Available Also available on microfilm (664 reels). 1. Ablitsov (Ablitzoff) 2. Akmidulin, Fachii (Fachy Acmidoulin) 3. Alekseev (Alexef) 4. Babin, Aleksei (Alexis Babine) 5. Borodin, B. G. 6. Butkovskii (Butkowski) 7. Chakuntkhakova, Mrs. (Mrs. Tchakounthakoff) 8. Chernik (Tchernik) 9. Chicherin (Tchtcherin) 10. Eiduk, Aleksandr (Alexander Eiduk) 11. Elmanov (Elmanoff) Register of the American Relief 23003 2 Administration Russian operational records 12. Gerstnovich, Lev (Leon Gerstnovich) 13. Iakunchipov, Olga (Olga Yacountchipoff) 14. Kamenev, Lev (Leon Kamenev) 15. Kameneva, Mrs. 16. Krasin (Krassin) 17. Kubalerova, Mariia 18. Lander 19. Litvinov, Maksim (Maxime Litvinoff) 20. Nikolaev, Dr. (Dr. Nickelaev) 21. Popov, Iurii (Georges Poppoff) 22. Radek 23. Sabin, Kyra (Kyra Sabine) 24. Savalev (Savalieff) 25. Semiashko 26. Shukov, Z. Z. (Z. Z. Shukoff) 27. Simonov, Dr. (Dr. Simonoff) 28. Tregubov, S., Dr. (Dr. S. Tregubow) 29. Trotsky, Leon 30. Trotsky, Natalia Sedova (Mrs. Leon Trotsky) 31. Volodin, A. S. (A. S. Volodjin) 32. Zhukov (Zhukoff) 33. Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich (Tovarisch, Zenovieff) 34. Zubarev (Zoubareff) Historical Note The American Relief Administration was established in February 1919 as the agency designated by President Woodrow Wilson to administer the relief measures authorized by the Congressional appropriation of $100,000,000 approved February 25, 1919. During the period of its activity, 1919-1923, offices of the A.R.A. were established in New York, Washington, and major cities of Europe, the Near East, and Soviet Russia. Russian relief was initiated in August 1921 under an agreement with the Soviet government, and by 1923 district missions were established in the capitals of most of the provinces of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, the Ukraine, the Crimea, and the North Caucasus. In total, the A.R.A. furnished over 90 percent of all relief that went into Russian between 1921 and 1923. Soviet authorities provided all transportation, warehousing, buildings, and currency required for payment of Russian staff. Funds equalling some $60,000,000 were made available by Congressional appropriation, public charity, and Soviet government gold reserves. Administrative personnel numbered 200 Americans with about 80,000 Russians under their direction. Between 1921 and 1923, a little under a million tons of food, seed, clothing, and medical supplies were distributed in Russia through an organization of 35,000 different stations. During the worst period nearly 11,000,000 men, women, and children were fed. Medical supplies were furnished to 15,000 hospitals and institutions, and over 7,000,000 individuals received inoculations and vaccinations. From seed imported, about 8,000,000 acres of land were sown. During the Russian operations principal officers of the A.R.A. included Herbert Hoover, Chairman; William N. Haskell, Director for Russia; Cyril J. C. Quinn, Assistant Director for Russia; Henry Beeuwkes, Medical Director for Russia; Vernon Kellogg, Lincoln Hutchinson, and James P. Goodrich, Special Investigators for Russia; Frank A. Golder, Special Representative, Russia;Edmund L. Daley and Philip Mathews, Executive Assistants for Russia; Walter Lyman Brown, Director for Europe; Christian A. Herter, Assistant Director,Washington Office; James A. Logan, Jr., Continental Representative, Paris Office; Philip S. Baldwin, Chief, Poland and Danzig Office; Randolph C. Wilson,Chief, Hamburg Office; and Arthur C. Ringland, Chief, Constantinople Office. A.R.A. operations terminated in Russia on June 15, 1923. Scope and Content of Collection Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories, financial records, lists, press summaries, and photographs relating to American relief in the Soviet Union following the Russian Civil War, and food and public health problems, agriculture, economic conditions, transportation and communications, and political and social developments, in the Soviet Union. Register of the American Relief 23003 3 Administration Russian operational records Subjects and Indexing Terms Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1945 Prisoners of war Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Civilian relief Refugees International relief Young Men's Christian associations Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Refugees Transportation -- Soviet Union Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Soviet Union Child welfare -- Soviet Union Young Women's Christian associations Microfilm Reel Content Guide Downloadable PDF file of the Microfilm Reel Content Guide Original Acquisition New York Office, Subject File 1919-1924 General note Available on microfilm reels 1-193 Scope and Contents note Reports, memoranda, correspondence, agreements, minutes of meetings, instructions, dispatches, telegrams, histories, notes, questionnaires, statistical data, maps, charts, rosters, press summaries, printed matter, and other records of the New York office relating to Russian relief, arranged alphabetically by subject. box 1, folder 1 Abbreviations General note Available on microfilm reel 1 box 1, folder 2 Agreements and executive orders (Riga, Fritjof Nansen, etc.) General note Available on microfilm reel 1 box 1, folder 3 Agricultural pests General note Available on microfilm reel 1 Agriculture General box 1, folder 4 1921-1922 August 30 General note Available on microfilm reel 2 box 2, folder 1 1922 August 30-1923 December 5 General note Available on microfilm reel 3 Register of the American Relief 23003 4 Administration Russian operational records New York Office, Subject File 1919-1924 box 2, folder 2 By districts General note Available on microfilm reel 4 Crops General box 2, folder 3 1921 April 18-1922 August 31 General note Available on microfilm reel 5 box 3, folder 1 1922 September 1-1923 October 30 General note Available on microfilm reel 6 box 3, folder 2-3 Questionnaires. Returns by districts General note Available on microfilm reel 7 box 4, folder 1 Food supply, forage General note Available on microfilm reel 8 box 4, folder 2 Grain tax General note Available on microfilm reel 8 box 4, folder 3 Grain trust (Klebo product) General note Available on microfilm reel 8 box 4, folder 4 Seed grain General note Available on microfilm reel 9 box 4, folder 5 Ukraine General note Available on microfilm reel 9 box 5, folder 1 Alcohol, Shipment of General note Available on microfilm reel 10 box 5, folder 2 American citizens General note Available on microfilm reel 10 box 5, folder 3 American prisoners General note Available on microfilm reel 10 Appeals General Register of the American Relief 23003 5 Administration Russian operational records New York Office, Subject File 1919-1924 box 5, folder 4 1921-1922 General note Available on microfilm reel 11 box 5, folder 5 1923-1924 General note Available on microfilm reel 12 box 6, folder 1 Food remittances, clothing - Kazan, Samara General note Available on microfilm reel 13 box 6, folder 2 Appeals and letters of thanks (in Russian) General note Available on microfilm reel 13 box 6, folder 3 A.R.A. Russian Museum General note Available