Register of the Hugh Anderson Moran papers
Finding aid prepared by Tanya Yule
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Title: Hugh Anderson Moran papers
Date (bulk): 1916-1933
Collection Number: 48025
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 2 oversize folders
(3.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, clippings, maps, posters, and photographs relating to the Russian Civil War, political and economic
conditions in Siberia and Manchuria, and relief work in Siberia and Manchuria, especially in the prisoner of war camps, during
the Russian Civil War.
Creator:
Moran, Hugh Anderson, 1881-1977
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1948.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hugh Anderson Moran papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Dr. Hugh Anderson Moran (1881-1977) graduated from Stanford University in 1905, and was the first athlete to receive the the
prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Moran was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, president of the English Club, officer
in the Young Men's Christian Association, and a member of the varsity track team.
Earning a doctorate in religion from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary, Moran was ordained as a minister
in the Presbyterian Church in 1908. He went on to serve as a Secretary of the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A. in China
from 1909 to 1913. From 1916 to 1918, Moran was stationed in Vladivostok, Russia, in charge of prisoner of war relief in Siberia;
he was also the special aide to Senator Elihu Root as part of the Special Diplomatic Mission in Russia in 1917.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, writings, clippings, maps, posters, and photographs relating to the Russian Civil War, political and economic
conditions in Siberia and Manchuria, and relief work in Siberia and Manchuria, especially in the prisoner of war camps, during
the Russian Civil War.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Civilian relief
International relief
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work
Young Men's Christian associations
Manchuria (China) -- History
box 1, folder 1
Biographical File
1916, 1918
Scope and Contents note
Passports
Correspondence
1916-1931, undated
1916-1931, undated
Letters received
1916-1917, undated
box 1, folder 2-3
Margareta, Crown Princess of Sweden
1916-1917
box 1, folder 4
Princess Lvov (Lwoff)
circa 1917
Language of Material: French.
box 1, folder 5-14
General
1916-1931, undated
Scope and Contents note
Letters from 1916 to 1918 begin with Moran entering Harbin, and contain accounts and daily activities of his station in Vladivostok.
Correspondents include Governor David R. Francis, Dr. John R. Mott, A. C. Harte, Esq., Senator Elihu Root, J. A. Caldwell,
Russell M. Story, and various Y.M.C.A. personnel stationed in Russia. Correspondence from 1919 to 1931 includes follow up
on Moran's accounts in Russia, his personal life, and materials used in research pertaining to the Russian Civil War.
Prisoner of War Records
1916-1918
box 1, folder 15
Receipts pertaining to prisoner of war supplies
1916-1918
box 1, folder 16
Reports and records pertaining to Y.M.C.A. secretaries working in Siberia
1916-1917
box 1, folder 17
Records pertaining to daily activities
1917
Language of Material: German.
Writings
1917-1931, undated
box 1, folder 18
Timeline of events
1917-1922
Scope and Contents note
Contains an organized chart created by Moran; data focuses on major events and conflicts starting May 12, 1917, and ending
November 14, 1922.
box 1, folder 19
Manuscripts pertaining to Manchuria,
1931, undated
Writings by Others
1916-1939, undated
White Armies of Russia, by George Stewart
1916-1933, undated
Scope and Contents note
Contains essays, letters, manuscript drafts, and reports that are written by Stewart and other contributors. Notes within
the materials are provided by Moran.
box 2, folder 2
Writing fragments
1918-1926, undated
box 2, folder 3
Appendices: 1 to 5
1918-1920
box 2, folder 5
Transcript of Milikukov's speech in the Russian Duma
circa 1916
box 2, folder 6
"The position Kept by France and Great Britain toward Fight against Bolsheviks in Russia,"
circa 1920s
box 2, folder 7
Letters to Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky
1933
box 2, folder 9
Miscellaneous letters
1920-1933
Scope and Contents note
Contains a letter from Colonel Siroboyarsky, a representative of Ataman Semenoff, detailing his experience on the front line
as a White Russian soldier and discussing the conditions of the soldiers and the civilians; and fan letters to Stewart following
the release of his book.
box 2, folder 10
Miscellaneous papers pertaining to the Russian Civil War
1919-1939, undated
box 2, folder 11, box 6, folder 1-2
Russian Military Maps
1918-1919
undated
drawer J06
Russian Military Maps (continued)
box 2, folder 12
Drawing
circa 1919
Scope and Contents note
Ink drawing of Russian soldier with horse in river.
Printed Matter
1870-1946, undated
box 2, folder 13
Open letter to the Provisional Russian government, from President Woodrow Wilson
circa 1917
box 2, folder 14
Bulletin regarding the American Relief Administration (A.R.A.)
1918
box 2, folder 15
Miscellaneous Russian bulletins
circa 1917-1921
box 2, folder 16
Stalin, Zinovyev Proclamation
circa 1919
box 2, folder 17
List of members of the Social Soviet Government
circa 1918
box 2, folder 18
Pamphlet,
Pictures of Bolsheviks (1896 to 1919)
circa 1920
box 2, folder 19
White Army propaganda posters (book fragments)
circa 1918
drawer J06
Propaganda poster by Dmitry Moor (Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov) Дмитрий Стахиевич Орлов
Scope and Contents note
Poster by Dmitry Moor Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov (Дмитрий Стахиевич Орлов).
drawer J06
Bezbozhnik, no. 2, 4-5
1923
box 2, folder 20
Book fragments pertaining to leadership within the White Army
circa 1918-1921
box 2, folder 21-28
Book fragments pertaining to the Russian Civil War
circa 1920
Scope and Contents note
Most pages contain contextual annotations, and translations by Moran.
box 2, folder 29
Russian Armies in Exile, 1920 to 1923 (pamphlet translation)
circa 1920s
box 2, folder 30
Political cartoon clippings
1920s
box 6, folder 3-4
Newspaper clippings
1920-1921
Scope and Contents note
Contains full page rotogravures of Wrangel's troops (1920), and the Tsar's last photograph (1921) from the
Chicago Sunday Tribune.
box 3, folder 1-2
Newspaper clippings pertaining to Russia
1918-1946, undated
box 3, folder 3
Newspaper clippings pertaining to Manchuria
1931-1932
box 3, folder 4
League of Nations in Review
1931
box 3, folder 5
Articles pertaining to the Soviet Union
1930-1946
box 3, folder 6
Miscellaneous
1870-1932
Scope and Contents note
Includes lithographs of Russian landmarks, a copy of a letter from Dr. Chapman from Reverend Buchak regarding missionary work
in Molodiatyn (1925), a report on the evangelical movement in Ukraine from the European Central Bureau for Church Relief Work
(1927), and various clippings pertaining to religion in Ukraine.
box 3, folder 7
Currency
1898-1922
Scope and Contents note
Contains various Russian currency, including Tsar Nicholas II currency stamps (1915-1916), and Red and White Army currency.
Photographs
circa 1913-1920, undated
Scope and Contents note
Most of the photographs contain annotations from Moran, or are series photographs from Underwood and Underwood.
box 4, folder 1
Tsar Nicholas II, portrait
circa 1915
box 4, folder 2
Portrait of 12 year old Czech soldier
circa 1917
box 4, folder 3
Chinese Eastern Railway
circa 1917
box 4, folder 4
Students from the University of Tonsk going back to Garda to relieve the Czechs
circa 1917
box 4, folder 5
British Naval gunmen, H.M.S.
Suffolk
circa 1917
box 4, folder 6
Russian churches and architecture
circa 1917
box 4, folder 7
Russian frontier between Siberia and Mongolia, portrait of White Army soldier
circa 1917
box 4, folder 8
Americans at Vladivostok
circa 1917
box 4, folder 11-13
The army of the new provisional government at Harbin, Manchuria
circa 1917
box 4, folder 14
Grandmother of the revolution, Breshkovskaya, in her car at Vladivstok
circa 1917
box 4, folder 15
Military trucks at the front,
circa 1917
box 4, folder 16
Churches in Russia
circa 1917
box 4, folder 17-18
Train in which Tsar Nicholas II abdicated
1917
box 4, folder 19-20
Demonstration in Petrograd
1917
box 4, folder 21
Mongols, May 1, 1917 in Tschita
1917
box 4, folder 22
Convicts from the prison in Tschita taking part in Labor Day parade
1917
box 4, folder 23
Winter palace in Petrograd
1917
box 4, folder 26
Admiral Austin M. Knight, Vladivostok
1917
box 4, folder 27
American railway engineers
1917
box 4, folder 28
Senator Root, General Scott, Dr. Mott
1917
box 4, folder 29
Ipatiev, house of Yekaterinburg
circa 1918
box 4, folder 30
Japanese officers visiting Russian athletic sports held at Harbin, by American Y.M.C.A.
circa 1918
box 4, folder 31
Party of Americans escaping by way of Blagovestchensk
circa 1918
box 4, folder 32
Japanese loading artillery
circa 1918
box 4, folder 33
Parade of the 5th Siberian division
circa 1918
box 4, folder 34
Morgan Palmer with American relief workers escaping from Siberia
circa 1918
box 4, folder 35
Graves of German soldiers in Russian Poland
circa 1918
box 4, folder 36
Prisoners of war
circa 1918
box 4, folder 37
Russians waiting in a line for tea
circa 1918
box 4, folder 38
Market place, Vladivostok,
circa 1918
box 4, folder 39-42
Eastern Mongols of Hailar, Mongolia
circa 1918
box 4, folder 43-47
Station Harbin, Manchuria
circa 1918
box 4, folder 49
General Jan Syrovy
circa 1918
box 4, folder 50
Military procession going to church to pray for victory
circa 1918
box 4, folder 51
Czech soldier who threw a hand grenade at Bolshevik headquarters
1918
box 4, folder 52
Allied naval officers
1918
box 4, folder 53
Czech soldiers, Vladivostok
1918
box 4, folder 54
American expeditionary forces, Siberian train
circa 1919
box 4, folder 55
Russian soldiers returning home
circa 1919
box 4, folder 56
Imperial Russian family portrait,
circa 1913
box 4, folder 58
Convicts from the prison in Tschita taking part in Labor Day parade
1917
box 4, folder 59
Kerensky as head of provisional government,
1917
box 4, folder 60
Milan Stefanik, portrait,
1917
box 5
Russian White Army soldiers
1917-1919
box 6
Russian White Army soldiers
1917-1919
box 5, folder 4
American commanders
1917-1920
box 5, folder 5
Carvings by a German soldier in Siberia
circa 1918
box 5, folder 6
Prisoner of war camps
circa 1918
box 5, folder 7
Surgeons of Allied forces
circa 1918
box 5, folder 8
Ukrainian army prepares to fight Bolsheviks
1918
box 5, folder 9
Refugees in Russia
1918-1919, undated
box 5, folder 10
Fighting Finnish against Bolshevik army,
1918
box 5, folder 11
Russian White Army women soldiers,
1918
box 5, folder 12
American troops in Russia
1918-1919
box 5, folder 13-18
Admiral Kolchak's troops in the UFA
1919
box 5, folder 19
American Red Cross, Vladivostok
1919
box 5, folder 20
General Otani in Siberia
1919
box 5, folder 21
Japanese train in Siberia
1919
box 5, folder 22
Trotsky and Lenin speaking in Red Square
circa 1919
box 5, folder 23
Lenin speaking in Red Square
circa 1919
box 5, folder 24
American expeditionary forces,
1919
box 5, folder 25
Kirilenko at Kronstadt
1919
box 5, folder 26
Czechoslovakian troops
1919-1920, undated
box 5, folder 27
Russian White Army commanders
1919-1920, undated
box 5, folder 28-30
Bolshevik army troops
1919-1920
box 5, folder 31
American troops in Russia
1920
box 5, folder 32
Estonian liberation war
1920