Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Laurie Manchester collection
- Dates:
- 1927-2018
- Creators:
- Manchester, Laurie
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, memoirs, newsletters, and other printed matter relating to the Russian community in Harbin, China. Consists mainly of correspondence among Russian former residents of Harbin.
- Extent:
- 12 manuscript boxes, optical media (5 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- Russian
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Laurie Manchester collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Laurie Manchester, a professor of Russian history, collected materials on the Russian community in Harbin, China while writing a book about Harbin repatriates. In the course of her research, she developed this collection of original materials, mainly correspondence among the repatriates relating to their experiences and the fates of colleagues, friends, and family members who took Soviet citizenship and moved to China from Manchuria in the late 1940s to the 1950s.
Much of the correspondence is between Albina Kosareva and her friends, as well as other members of communities of former Harbin dwellers in Kurgan, Omsk, Novosibirsk, and other Soviet cities, as well as between them and those who remained abroad (in Australia and North and South America).
This collection gives insight into how people responded to life in the late 1970s to 1980s and discusses Perestroika, Glasnost, the events surrounding the break-up of the USSR, and how, as soon as it became possible to form volunteer associations, the Harbiners found each other and established societies across the country.
- Acquisition information:
- Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2015, with an increment in 2017.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Russians -- China
- Names:
- Manchester, Laurie
- Places:
- Harbin (China) -- History
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-11-01 15:58:05.688213
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Laurie Manchester collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563