George Collins papers, 1838-1986, bulk 1949-1986

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Series V: Russian Papers

Series V is comprised of five subseries: The first subseries includes material relating to the publication of N.A. Miliutin's Sotsgorod: The Problem of building Socialist Cities. The text was translated from Russian to English by Arthur Sprague as part of his dissertation research. Collins, who served as Sprague's dissertation advisor, edited the translated text. There are files containing the edited manuscript, various drafts, and correspondence. The second subseries includes a selection of Arthur Sprague's graduate school work. There are files containing Sprague's master's essay, as well as various other writings on Soviet architecture. There is also correspondence between George Collins and Sprague, research notes, newspaper clippings. The third subseries includes copies of the papers delivered during the 1974 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and Columbia University Russian Institute's Conference on "The Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1933." The fourth subseries includes numerous papers authored by Frederick Starr, an American expert of Russian and Eurasain affairs. There are also images for Starr's book Melnikov Solo Architect in a Mass Society, and correspondence between Starr and Collins. The fifth subseries is comprised of general material including newspaper clippings, journal articles, and numerous writings about Soviet architecture and city planning.


Subseries 1: Sotsgorod: The Problems of Building Socialist Cities



Box 7 Folder 9 Base Notes, undated



Box 7 Folder 10 Miscellaneous Notes, undated



Box 7 Folder 11 Russian Text, undated



Box 7 Folder 13 Text, undated



Box 7 Folder 14 English Translation, undated



Box 7 Folder 15 Introduction Drafts, undated



Box 7 Folder 16 to 17 Edited Text [1 of 2], undated



Box 7 Folder 18 Edited Manuscript, undated



Box 7 Folder 19 Edited Manuscript, undated



Box 7 Folder 20 Edited Manuscript, undated



Box 7 Folder 21 Edited Manuscript [1 of 2], undated



Box 7 Folder 22 Edited Manuscript [2 of 2], undated



Box 7 Folder 23 Edited Manuscript, undated



Box 7 Folder 24 Corrections, 1973



Box 7 Folder 25 Stalingrad: Linear City, undated



Box 7 Folder 26 Early Book Layout, undated



Box 7 Folder 27 Book Layout, undated



Box 7 Folder 28 Book Jacket and Design, undated



Box 7 Folder 29 Photoduplicating Services, 1974



Box 7 Folder 30 Sotsgorod Photographs, undated



Box 14 Folder 1 Page Layouts, 1974



Box 14 Folder 2 Draft Pages, 1974



Box 14 Folder 3 Index, 1974



Box 7 Folder 31 Publicity, 1974



Box 8 Folder 1 MIT Press, 1975

Including reviews of the book



Box 8 Folder 2 General Material, 1977-1980



Box 8 Folder 3 Correspondence [1 of 3], 1970-1975

Correspondence with MIT Press personnel including: Michael Connolly, Barbara Levy, and Ed Argo



Box 8 Folder 4 Correspondence [2 of 3], 1970-1978-1974, 197

Includes Correspondence with Katherine Burger Sprague, Frederick Starr, and Catherine Cook



Box 8 Folder 5 Correspondence [3 of 3], 1967-1975

General Correspondence


Subseries 2: Arthur Sprague



Box 8 Folder 6 "Nikolai Aleksandrovich Miliutin: Soviet Town Planner and Architect, 1961



Box 8 Folder 7 "Kandinsky and Malevich", 1962



Box 8 Folder 8 "Kandinsky and Malevich", 1962

Graded



Box 8 Folder 9 "The Modern Movement in Architecture", 1964



Box 8 Folder 10 "Constructivism and Cosmopolitism in Soviet Architecture and Town Planning, undated



Box 8 Folder 11 "Ivan Leonidov 1902-1960", undated



Box 8 Folder 12 "Constructivism In Soviet Architecture", undated



Box 8 Folder 13 "Iakov Chernikov: The Last Constructivist"

Graded



Box 8 Folder 14 Writings on Konstantin Melnikov, undated

Some material in Russian



Box 8 Folder 15 "Sotsgorod and Linear Planning in the USSR", undated

Russian Text



Box 8 Folder 16 Marx Monument, undated



Box 8 Folder 17 USSR Study Plan, 1962



Box 8 Folder 18 Master's Essay, undated



Box 8 Folder 19 Master's Essay Draft, 1962



Box 8 Folder 20 Master's Essay Chapters and Appendices, 1962



Box 8 Folder 21 Outline of Dissertation, undated



Box 8 Folder 22 Sotsgorod Translation, undated



Box 8 Folder 23 "The Problems of Building Socialist Cities", undated



Box 8 Folder 24 Brothers Vesnin Catalog, 1964



Box 8 Folder 25 Photographs, undated

Photographs of Ily Golosov's Architecture



Box 8 Folder 26 Application to the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, undated



Box 8 Folder 27 Correspondence with George Collins, 1961-1962, 1964-1968

Divided by date



Box 8 Folder 28 Correspondence regarding Sprague, 1961, 1962, 1964,1967, 1975

Divided by author



Box 8 Folder 29 Marriage Announcement, 1965



Box 8 Folder 30 "Art, Rubles, and Dollars", 1962



Box 8 Folder 31 Moisei Iakovlevich Ginzburg Research, 1970



Box 8 Folder 32 "Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel: The Demon and the Prophet", undated



Box 8 Folder 33 Nikolai Aleksandrovich Miliutin Paper and Articles, 1961



Box 8 Folder 34 "Constructivism and Academicism in Soviet Architecture", undated



Box 14 Folder 4 Research Notes, undated



Box 14 Folder 5 "Voks and its Problems", undated



Box 14 Folder 6 Draft Pages, undated



Box 8 Folder 35 "Nikolai Nikolaevich (1831-1894), Academic Painting in Russia in the Nineteenth Century", 1962



Box 14 Folder 7 Notes, Notes



Box 14 Folder 8 "Soviet Architecture", undated



Box 14 Folder 9 "Sotsgorod and Linearism in the USSR (1928-1931), undated


Subseries 3: Conference Papers



Box 8 Folder 36 "Little Heroes and Big Deeds: Literature Responds to the First Five-Year Plan", 1974

By: Katerina Clark, Wesleyan University



Box 8 Folder 37 "The Soviet Metallurgical Industry 1929-1941", 1974

By: Samuel Lieberstein, Temple University



Box 8 Folder 38 "Pashukanis and the Withering Away of Law in the USSR, 1974

By: Robert Sharlet, Union College



Box 8 Folder 39 "The Anti-Urban Utopias of Early Stalinist Russia", 1974

By: S. Frederick Starr, Princeton University



Box 8 Folder 40 "Educational Policy and Cultural Revolution: V.N. Shulgin and the 'Withering Away of the School'", 1974

By: Gail Warshofsky Lapidus, The Hoover Institution



Box 8 Folder 41 "The Psychoneutological Sciences and the Construction of Socialism", 1974

By: David Joravsky, Northwestern University



Box 8 Folder 42 "Cultural Revolution and the Creation of a New Technical Intelligentsia", 1974



Box 9 Folder 1 "Comments on David Joravasky's and Kendall Baile's Papers", 1974

By: Loren Graham, Columbia University



Box 9 Folder 2 "Soviet Historians During the First-Five-Year Plan", 1974

By. George M. Enteen



Box 9 Folder 3 "Class, State and Ideology in the Piatiletka", 1974

By: M. Lewin



Box 9 Folder 4 "Cultural Revolution as Class War", 1974

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick



Box 9 Folder 5 "Urbanization in Russia and the USSR: 1897-1966, 1974

By: Robert A. Lewis and Richard H. Rowland, Columbia University



Box 9 Folder 6 Untitled, 1974

By: Kendall E. Bailes, University of California at Irvine


Subseries 4: Frederick Starr



Box 9 Folder 7 "Architecture and Minor Arts", 1959



Box 9 Folder 8 "Architecture in the Soviet Union", 1963



Box 9 Folder 9 Some Observations on Russian Design, 1966



Box 9 Folder 10 Konstantin Melnikov, 1969



Box 9 Folder 11 "The Evolution of the Contemporary Idiom", undated



Box 9 Folder 12 "The Anti-Urban Utopias of Early Stalinist Russia", 1974



Box 9 Folder 13 "The Revival and Schism of Urban Planning in the Twentieth Century Russia", undated



Box 9 Folder 14 "The Union of Contemporary Architects", undated



Box 9 Folder 15 The Princeton Plan, 1970



Box 9 Folder 16 "City Planning in Russia: The Development of Odessa, 1789-1892", 1974



Box 9 Folder 17 Correspondence, 1968-1970, 1972-1974, 1978, undated



Box 9 Folder 18 Images for "Melnikov Solo Architect in a Mass Society" [1 of 2], undated



Box 9 Folder 19 Images for "Melnikov Solo Architect in a Mass Society" [2 of 2], undated



Box 9 Folder 20 General Material, 1970, 1974


Subseries 5: General Material



Box 9 Folder 21 Soviet Architecture Articles, 1972



Box 9 Folder 22 Soviet Art Articles and Reviews of Shows [1 of 2], 1961, 1968, 1970-1975, 1977, 1979-1980



Box 9 Folder 23 Soviet Art Articles and Reviews of Shows [2 of 2], undated



Box 9 Folder 24 Newspaper Clippings [1 of 4], 1965-1969



Box 9 Folder 25 Newspaper Clippings [2 of 4], 1970-1974



Box 9 Folder 26 Newspaper Clippings [3 of 4], 1975-1979



Box 9 Folder 27 Newspaper Clippings [4 of 4], 1980-1988, undated



Box 9 Folder 28 Journal Clippings, 1975-1981



Box 14 Folder 10 Journal Clippings, 1968



Box 14 Folder 11 Newspaper Clippings, 1967, 1971, 1985



Box 14 Folder 12 Soviet Life, 1974-1975



Box 14 Folder 13 New York Times Clippings, 1967



Box 14 Folder 14 Articles About Soviet Architecture, 1983



Box 9 Folder 29 Notes, 1968, 1971, 1977-1978



Box 9 Folder 30 Correspondence, 1961, 1963, 1968-1974, 1978, 1982

Includes correspondence with Anatole Senkevitch, Jr., Kitty Burger, Marshall D. Shulman, Hibbard.



Box 9 Folder 31 Nikolay Alexanrovich Miliutin, undated



Box 9 Folder 32 "The Political Economy of Soviet New Towns,", 1979

By T.J. Colton, University of Toronto



Box 9 Folder 33 "St. Petersburg", undated

By: Anatole Senkevitch, Jr.



Box 9 Folder 34 "Architecture in the Soviet Union", 1963



Box 9 Folder 35 "Concentric Circles: Russian History and Soviet Architecture", 1966

By: Karl A. Maier



Box 9 Folder 36 "The Arts in the Soviet Union", 1960



Box 14 Folder 15 Articles about Warsaw, 1980-1983



Box 9 Folder 37 "Town Design: Theories of Planning Towns", 1965