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Register of the American Relief Administration Russian Operational Records, 1919-1925
23003
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Description
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.
Background
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.
Extent
555 manuscript boxes, 2 cubic foot boxes, 3 oversize boxes
(236.4 linear feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives
Availability
Microfilm use only.
- Collection Overview
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Collection Details
- Descriptive Summary
- Administrative Information
- Access Points
- Historical Note
- Appendix A: Partial List of Districts and Towns Served by the A.R.A.
- Appendix B: Partial List of American Personnel Pictured in Personnel Photographs
- Appendix C: Partial List of Russian Officials and Citizens Who Worked fro the A.R.A., Pictured in Personnel and Other Photographs
- Scope and Content of Collection