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Title: Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection,
Date (inclusive): 1915-1917
Collection number: 63011
Collector:
Ramplee-Smith, Winifred V., collector
Collection Size:
1 manuscript box, 1 oversize box
((1.3 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Pamphlets, leaflets, clippings, and postcards, relating to the February 1917 Revolution in Russia. Includes fragments of burned
records of the tsarist secret police (Okhrana).
Languages:
Russian,
and English.
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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[Identification of item], Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1963.
Increments may have been received since this finding aid was prepared. Please check Stanford University's online catalog Socrates
at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat to find the full extent of the collection.
The Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection consists mainly of printed matter relating to the outbreak of the February Revolution
in Petrograd and Moscow. It includes anti-monarchist propaganda booklets, revolutionary leaflets and wall-posters. Of special
interest are rare copies of contemporary newspapers, including,
Izvestiia,
Novoe Vremia, and
Vestnik Vremennago Pravitel'stva. Also of interest are photographs depicting leaders of the Provisional Government and scenes of the revolution.
Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith was secretary to Lord Templewood and subsequently to Sir Samuel Hoare in Petrograd from 1916-1917.
She was in Moscow when the revolution broke out and began collecting printed matter related to the events she witnessed.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Russia. Okhrannye otdeleniia.
Secret service--Russia.
Russia.
Russia--History--February Revolution, 1917.