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Title: Mark V. Vishniak Papers
Dates: circa 1910-1995
Collection number: 70000
Creator:
Vishniak, M. V. (Mark Ven'iaminovich), b. 1883.
Collection Size:
19 manuscript boxes
7.9 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, writings, and clippings, relating to Russian and Soviet history, Russian revolutionists, Russian
émigrés, and political conditions in the Soviet Union by the Russian historian and Socialist Revolutionary Party leader.
Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
Russian
English
French
Hebrew
The collection is open for research
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Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1970
Also available on microfilm (24 reels).
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Biography / Administrative History
The Russian author and pre-Bolshevik politician was born in Moscow on January 15, 1883 later graduating from Moscow University.
As a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, he was an ardent Socialist Revolutionary, who, in 1918, was secretary
of the only freely elected Constituent Assembly in his country's history. He held the post only seventeen hours, until Lenin
disbanded the Parliament. After fleeing to Paris and then to New York in 1940 Vishniak later became
Time magazine's senior specialist on Soviet affairs and wrote 22 books. He died in New York City in 1976.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, speeches, writings, and clippings, relating to Russian and Soviet history, Russian revolutionists, Russian
émigrés, and political conditions in the Soviet Union by the Russian historian and Socialist Revolutionary Party leader.
The collection is organized into six series: Correspondence, Biographical File, Speeches and Writings, Subject File, Photographs
and Miscellany.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in Stanford University's online catalog.
Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov.
Revolutionaries--Russia.
Russians in foreign countries.
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
Soviet Union--Politics and government.