Register to Microfilm of the George Constantine Guins Papers, 1917-1971
Register to Microfilm of the George Constantine Guins Papers, 1917-1971
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- Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials and copyright to them (with some exceptions) are the property of the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Archives.
- Processed by:
- Anatol Shmelev
- Date Completed:
- 1999
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
Alternative Forms of Material Available
| 1887, April 27 (N.S.) | Born, Novogeorgievsk, Russia (Modlin, Poland) |
| 1909 | Law degree, St. Petersburg University |
| 1910 | Entered government service, Resettlement Office of Ministry of Agriculture |
| 1915 | Law degree, St. Petersburg University |
| 1916 | Privat-Dozent, St. Petersburg University |
| 1917 | Chief Legal Counselor, Ministry of Provisions |
| 1918-1920 | Manager of Affairs, Siberian (later All-Russian) Provisional Government (also held positions of Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Assistant Minister of Education, Chairman of State Economic Council) |
| 1921 | Author, Sibir', soiuzniki i Kolchak |
| 1921-1926 | Service on administration of Chinese Eastern Railway as Head of Chancellery and later Chief Controller |
| 1927 | Author, Eticheskie problemy sovremennogo Kitaia |
| 1928 | Author, Obosnovanie politiki prava v trudakh Professora L.I. Petrazhitskogo |
| 1929 | Law degree, Paris |
| 1931-1932 | Author, Novye idei v prave i osnovnye problemy sovremennosti |
| 1933 | Author, Uchenie o prave i politicheskaia ekonomiia |
| 1936 | Author, Ocherki sotsial'noi psikhologii |
| 1940 | Author, Predprinimatel' |
| 1941 | Author, Quo Vadis Europa? |
| 1941 | Emigrated to the United States |
| 1946-1953 | Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1954-1964 | Consultant, Voice of America, United States Information Agency |
| 1971 | Died |
Container List of Microfilm Reels
Biographical File, 1917-1971.
Scope and Content Note
Addresses honoring Guins. See also Oversize File
On the occasion of leaving the service of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, 1926 (in Chinese)
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Guins's teaching political economy at the First Harbin Public Commercial School, 1941
Autobiographical note and brief resume
Bibliography of works published (to 1949)
Certificate of service. See Oversize File
Correspondence relating biographical information for oral history project, n.d. Includes letters to director of UC Berkeley Regional Oral History Office Willa Baum and interviewer Boris Raymond
Oral history projects conducted by the Regional Oral History Office of the University of California, Berkeley
George C. Guins: Impressions of the Russian Imperial Government (Berkeley, CA: University of California Regional Oral History Office, 1971)
George C. Guins, Professor and Government Official: Russia, China and California. An Interview Conducted by Boris Raymond (Berkeley, CA: University of California Regional Oral History Office, 1966)
Miscellaneous documents, including travel certificates, identity papers, power of attorney forms and a contract form (typescript, apparently drawn up by Guins), service and financial records, 1917-1941 (in Russian and Chinese, with attached photographs)
Correspondence, 1950-1964
Scope and Content Note
General and unidentified, n.d.-1964
Beliaev, Nikolai Pavlovich, 1950
Gsowska, Helena, 1964
Paramonov, Sergei Iakovlevich, 1955
Taylor, Pauline, 1964
Speeches And Writings, 1918-1964
Scope and Content Note
General
Fragments
Biography of Admiral Kolchak, n.d. Typescript
Works on the Russian Civil War and Allied intervention, n.d. Typescript (in Russian and English)
Work(s) on the Slav question at the close of World War II, n.d. Typescript
Notes, n.d. Holograph
Research materials on Soviet law, c. 1954-1955. Holograph and typescript
"Aggression - A Challenge to the U.N.," n.d. Typescript
"Anglichanin o russkikh i o sovetskoi zhizni," n.d. Typescript
"Beloe dvizhenie," n.d. Background material, notes, related fragments and typescript (incomplete), including early draft(s)
"Beloe dvizhenie i ego razvitie," n.d. Typescript (incomplete). Includes early draft(s)
"Chego strana zhdet ot Aika Eisenhauera?" n.d. Typescript
"Chekhoslovakiia i Rossiia," n.d. Typescript
"Chelovek v Sovetskom gosudarstve," n.d. Typescript
"Chto proiskhodit v mire?" n.d. Typescript
"Comrades But Not Brothers!" n.d. Typescript
"D. P." [speech], n.d. Notes
"Dva Verkhovnykh suda," n.d. Typescript
"Dvortsovyi perevorot v Moskve," n.d. Typescript
"Fashizm," n.d. Holograph. Includes early draft entitled "O fashizme"
"The Fateful Events of the W. W. II," n.d. Notes and typescript
"The Influence of Social Culture on Human Behavior," n.d. Typescript
"The International Peace Army (IPA)," n.d. Typescript
"Iron Curtain Laws and Convictions By False Confessions," n.d. Typescript
"Is Comintern Suspended or Dead?" n.d. Typescript
"Kakovo zhe budushchee Rossii," n.d. Typescript
"Kul'tura natsionalnykh menshinstv v S.S.S.R.," n.d. Typescript
"Legal Policy (Principles of Legislation and Administration)." See "Politika prava (osnovy zakonodatel'stva i upravleniia)," n.d. ( qqv.)
"Lozungi prezidenta Eizenkhauera," n.d. Typescript
"Makhnovtsy i zelenye," n.d. Typescript
"Na poroge novogo goda," n.d. Typescript
"Nad svezhei mogiloi E.P. Grot," n.d. Typescript
"Nakanune Zhenevskoi konferentsii," n.d. Typescript
"Napoleon XX-go veka," n.d. Typescript
"The National Question and Revolution," n.d. Typescript
"Natsional'naia problema i budushchee Rossii," n.d. Typescript
"Natsional'naia problema v Rossii," n.d. Typescript
"Neodolimaia sila," n.d. Typescript
"Ob iazyke i pol'zovan'i im," n.d. Typescript
"Obedinennye natsii," n.d. Typescript
"Obedinennye natsii i prezident de Goll'," n.d. Typescript
"Obshchaia teoriia prava," n.d. Holograph and typescript. Includes background material, notes, and drafts of a proposed book. Materials have been left in original order, which may or may not reflect author's order, with the exception of placement of table of contents at beginning. Some of the content is in the form of a revised draft of material previously published. Includes early titles and/or drafts of sections entitled "Psikhologicheskaia teoriia prava," "Sotsial'naia psikhologiia i pravo," and "Sotsiologicheskie i psikhologicheskie predposylki novykh idei v prave," 1933, notes for speech entitled "Sotsial'naia psikhologiia i osnovy prava," 1936 September 8, before the Kharbinskii Iuridicheskii Fakul'tet, Harbin, China, and news clipping summarizing speech ( Gun-Bao, 9 September 1936)
"Odin iz retseptov," n.d. Typescript
"Perevoploshchenie Peterburga," n.d. Typescript
"Peterburgskie biurokraty predrevoliutsionnogo vremeni," n.d. Typescript
"Pochemu kul't Pushkina," n.d. Holograph
"Poeziia Lermontova i sovremennost'," n.d. Typescript
"Politicheskie prognozy," n.d. Typescript
"Politika prava (osnovy zakonodatel'stva i upravleniia)," n.d. Typescript. Consists of incomplete Russian original, with drafts of material re-used from published works, as well as drafts of English translations entitled "Legal Policy (Principles of Legislation and Administration)," and "Law Making as a Science"
"Prisoedinenie Srednei Azii," n.d. Typescript
"Programma obnovleniia," n.d. Typescript
"Psikhologicheskaia teoriia prava," n.d. See "Obshchaia teoriia prava," n.d. ( qqv.)
Review of Harry Braverman, The Future of Russia, n.d. Typescript
Review of Ivo Lapenna, State and Law: Soviet and Yugoslav Theory, n.d. Typescript
Review of M. G. Levin and L. P. Potapov, editors, The Peoples of Siberia, n.d. Typescript
Review of William Petersen, ed., The Realities of World Communism, n.d. Typescript
"Revolution Is Still a Hope," n.d. Typescript (incomplete)
"Russia Will Overcome Japan," n.d. Typescript
"The Russians Among Us," n.d. Typescript
"Russia's and Soviet Culture (A Philosophy of Russian History)," n.d. Typescript. Incomplete work consisting of background notes, partial table of contents, preface (in Russian and two English versions), early drafts of chapters V ("Mongol'skaia imperiia," with fragment in English) and VII ("The New Generation" - chapter XXII in the final draft), and a section entitled "Part III: Soviet Culture" (chapter XII through conclusion)
"Russkaia revoliutsiia v plane mirovoi istorii," n.d. Typescript
"Samoe dorogoe zdanie v mire," n.d. Typescript
"Siberia and Its Peoples," n.d. Typescript
"Soiuzniki i Rossiia v gody revoliutsii," n.d. Notes, early drafts, fragments and typescript (incomplete)
"Sotsialisticheskaia zakonnost'," n.d. Typescript and abridged English translation ("Socialist Legality")
"Sotsial'naia psikhologiia i pravo." See "Obshchaia teoriia prava," n.d. ( qqv.)
"Stolitsa S.Sh.A.," n.d. Typescript
"Trevozhnye simptomy," n.d. Typescript
"Ukraina posle revoliutsii," n.d. Research notes and typescript
Untitled draft of book(s) on development of USSR in the post-World War II period (industry, society, law, ideology, constitutional and political issues), n.d. Holograph and typescript (in Russian and English). May include chapters and fragments related to other works
Untitled draft of book(s) on Russian foreign relations (historical development and the post-World War II period), n.d. Typescript
Untitled work on Solidarism, n.d. Typescript
"V Kaliforniiskom universitete," n.d. Typescript
"Verkhovnyi sud i Kongress," n.d. Typescript
"Verkhovnyi sud. Pamiati F. Frankfurtera," n.d. Typescript
"Vosstanovlenie obshchei istorii: Malorossiia posle vossoedineniia," n.d. Typescript
"Vremennoe Pravitel'stvo i Bol'shevizm: Vospominaniia i razmyshleniia," n.d. Typescript
"The World in the Process of Reconstruction," n.d. Typescript
"Za i protiv," n.d. Typescript
"Zagadochnye ieroglify," n.d. Typescript
"Znachenie literatury," n.d. Holograph
Eticheskie problemy sovremennogo Kitaia, Harbin, 1927. Printed copy
Obosnovanie politiki prava v trudakh Professora L. I. Petrazhitskogo, Harbin, 1928. Printed copy
L. I. Petrazhitskii: Kharakteristika nauchnogo tvorchestva, 1867-1931 g. g., Harbin, 1931. Printed copy
"Russkaia obshchestvennaia kultura i reformy Imper. Al. II," [1931]. Holograph
Novye idei v prave i osnovnye problemy sovremennosti. Vypusk 1, Harbin, 1931. Printed copy
Novye idei v prave i osnovnye problemy sovremennosti. Vypusk 2, Harbin, 1932. Printed copy
Uchenie o prave i politicheskaia ekonomiia, Harbin, 1933. Printed copy
"Sotsiologicheskie i psikhologicheskie predposylki novykh idei v prave," 1933. See "Obshchaia teoriia prava," n.d. ( qqv.)
"Starye i novye liudi," speech, Kharbinskoe Kommercheskoe Sobranie, Harbin, China, 1933 November 15. Holograph and printed broadside advertising speech
"Sotsial'naia psikhologiia i osnovy prava," 1936 September 8. See "Obshchaia teoriia prava," n.d. ( qqv.)
The Entrepreneur, Harbin, 1940. Typescript
"Vospominaniia o S.P.B. Universitete," [1941]. Holograph
"Epokha velikikh reform," 1941 November 10-20. Holograph
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings consisting of his articles, c. 1942-1947. Includes biographical note supplied to Museum of Russian Culture, n.d.
"Basic Principles of U.N.R.R.A.'s Policy," Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, 1945 September. Printed copy
"Russia and the United States in the World Economy," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1946 January. Printed copy
"Two Worlds in One: Revolution Against Reform," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1946 July. Printed copy. Includes a typescript entitled "Two Worlds in 'One World'"
"Rokovye liudi," Russkaia zhizn', 1946 September 14. Printed copy
"Russia's Prize in Manchuria," Russian Review, 1946 Autumn. Printed copy. Includes typescript "Russkii priz v Man'chzhurii," n.d.
"Korean Plans of Russian Imperialism," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1946 October. Printed copy. Includes typed draft: "Russia and Korea," n.d.
"Soviet Culture: Old Trends and New," Russian Review, 1947 Autumn. Printed copy
"The Degeneration of 'Pan-Slavism'," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1948 October. Includes "The Politics of 'Pan-Slavism'," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1949 January and "The Prospects of 'Pan-Slavism'," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1950 July. Printed copies. Also includes two typed drafts (one incomplete) of the entire work in English under the title "The Slav Question" and one typed draft in Russian, "Slavianskii vopros" (also entitled "Chapter XIV")
"A. S. Pushkin (1799-1849)," [1949]. Typescript
"East and West in Soviet Ideology," Russian Review, 1949 October. Printed copy
"A. N. Ostrovskii i sovremennost'," [1950]. Typescript
"Soviet Law -- Terra Incognita," Russian Review, 1950 January. Printed copy
"Soviet Centralism," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1950 April. Printed copy
"Penalties and Rewards in Soviet Law," Washington Law Review, 1950 May. Printed copy
"Law Does Not Wither Away in the Soviet Union," Russian Review, 1950 July. Printed copy
"A Ray of Light in the Realm of Darkness," 1951 October 3. Typescript
Soviet Law and Soviet Society, The Hague, 1954. Typescript
Part I
Part II. Includes review by V. A. Riasanovsky, n.d.
"Tserkov' i voina," 1954 September 11 (date mailed). Background notes and typescript
"Po povodu khirotonii Episkopa Aliaskinskogo," 1955 September 11 (?). Holograph
"Helpless Mammy," Reader's Digest, 1955 November 7. Typescript
"Amerika na pereput'i," 1964 December 1. Typescript
"Nerazreshennye problemy 1964 goda," 1965 January 8. Typescript
"Liudi vsekh ras obediniaites'," 1965 January 13. Typescript
Course Materials, 1918-1953
Scope and Content Note
Omsk, 1918-1919. "Lektsii po grazhdanskomu pravu," 1918-1919. Holograph
Harbin, 1922-1941
Lectures
"Eticheskie osnovy prava," n.d. Holograph
"Khoziaistvennoe pravo," n.d. Holograph
"Pravo i religiia," n.d. Holograph
"Programma. Literatura po grazhdanskomu pravu." Includes reading lists and lectures on special legal issues (tort law, absolute rights, property and family law) as well as articles on legal matters by Guins published earlier, n.d. Typescript and printed matter
"Sistema kursa torgovogo prava," n.d. Holograph
"Grazhdanskoe pravo," 1922. Holograph
"Pedagogicheskoe i motivatsionnoe deistvie prava," 1930. Holograph
Syllabi (programs)
"Programma po torgovomu pravu," n.d. Typescript
"Programmy prof. G. K. Ginsa po rimskomu pravu," Harbin Legal Faculty, n.d. Printed copy
"Programma po entsiklopedii prava (dlia studentov I kursa Kommercheskogo fakul'teta za I-oe polugodie 1939 uchebn. goda," 1939. See Oversize File
"Programma po entsiklopedii prava (dlia studentov I kursa Kommercheskogo fakul'teta za I-oe polugodie 1941 uchebn. goda," 1941. Typescript
"Programma po politicheskoi ekonomii (I-yi semestr) dlia studentov I-go kursa Kommercheskogo fak-ta S. M. Universiteta (v 1941 g.)," 1941 May. Typescript
California, 1947-1954 - University of California, Berkeley
Slavic 180A-180B, 181 (lectures on Russian and Soviet history and culture). Includes background notes, research materials, literature summaries and reviews, examination questions, student rolls and related printed matter (pages torn from Russian calendars, book reviews and articles clipped from various newspapers and journals), 1947-1953
Slavic 180A-180B, 181 (lectures on Russian and Soviet history and culture). Includes background notes, research materials, literature summaries and reviews, examination questions, student rolls and related printed matter (pages torn from Russian calendars, book reviews and articles clipped from various newspapers and journals), 1947-1953
Political Science 116 (lectures on Russian and Soviet law) and Political Science 141 (lectures on Soviet Government). Includes background notes, research materials, literature summaries and reviews, examination questions, student rolls and related printed matter (pages torn from Russian calendars, book reviews and articles clipped from various newspapers and journals). Also includes The Challenge: Bulletin of the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Soviet Labor Camps, vol. I, #1 (July 1950), 1947-1953
Subject File, 1931-1953
Scope and Content Note
Materialism. Summary of a speech by N. O. Losskii, entitled "Ideal-realizm protiv materializma," 1953 September 14
Mishpat Gaborrim. Statutes, by-laws and correspondence relating to the establishment of the Jewish Arbitration Court "Mishpat Gaborrim" in Harbin. Includes list of judges, 1931-1932
Orthodox Church in America. Appeals to Ninth and Tenth American Councils. Includes letter from parishioners of St. John church in Berkeley to Rev. Nikolai Veiglas, additions and corrections to church by-laws (notes by Guins), n.d.
Tubabao, Philippines. Appeal to Senator William F. Knowland, asking for expedited immigration for Russians on Tubabao, 1949 July
Miscellany. Information items and reports on situation in China and St. John Russian Orthodox Church in Berkeley, CA, n.d.
Oversize File, 1964 and undated
Scope and Content Note
Address, honoring Guins for his service with the Chinese Eastern Railway, n.d.
Certificate of Service, United States Information Agency, 1964 July 21
Course materials - Harbin - Syllabi (Programs). "Programma po entsiklopedii prava (dlia studentov I kursa Kommercheskogo fakul'teta za I-oe polugodie 1939 uchebn. goda," 1939
Container List of Boxes and Envelope
Materials, undated
Photographs, undated
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