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Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Papers, 1898-2014

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Series II: Writings, 1906-1973

The series comprises published and unpublished works of Aleksandr Kazem-Bek, including articles, monographs, talks memoire, etc. There are also writings of other authors. Arranged in five subseries.

Subseries II.1: Kazem-Bek's Books and Monographs, 1951-1952, undated

Drafts, manuscripts, and typescripts of Kazem-Bek's published and unpublished works "History of Russia", "History of the Russian Church", "History of Russian Colonization", and "K zhizneopisaniu Sviateishego Patriarkha Moskovskogo i Vseia Rusi Aleksiia".

"History of Russia", undated

(Drafts of unpublished book. Typescripts with handwritten corrections, notes)


Box 4 Folder 7 Zakat Vizantii i vozvyshenie Moskvy

Box 4 Folder 7 Tretii Rim

Box 4 Folder 7 Na strazhe Evropy

Box 4 Folder 7 Narod - hoziain prostranstva

Box 4 Folder 7 Perenesenie moshchei sviatitelia

Box 4 Folder 7 Vseia Rossii chudotvorets

Box 4 Folder 7 Mezhdu papoi i sultanom

Box 4 Folder 8 Handwritten notes

Box 4 Folder 9 Dekabristy

Box 4 Folder 9 Istoriia orfografii v Rossii

Box 4 Folder 9 Rozhdestvo v Kremle: 25 dekabria 1648 goda

Chapters and notes from a book on the Russian Revolution

Box 4 Folder 10 Narodnyi komissariiat po delam natsional'nostei

Box 4 Folder 10 Perviye gody Sovetskoi Federatsyi

Box 4 Folder 10 Revolutsiia pered dilemoi posle provala stavki na internatsional

Box 4 Folder 11 Notes

"History of the Russian Church", undated

(Drafts of unpublished book. Typescripts, handwritten notes)

Box 4 Folder 12 Khristianstvo, kak put' k velikoderzhavnosti

Box 4 Folder 12 Pervaia kanonizatsiia v russkoi tserkvi

Box 4 Folder 12 Pravoslavie v Novgorodskoi Rusi

Box 4 Folder 12 Pravoslavie i russkaia kultura

Box 4 Folder 12 Russkoe pravoslavie - pravoslavnaia Rus'

Box 4 Folder 13 Notes and research materials

"History of Russian Colonization", 1951-1952, undated

(Drafts, notes, plan of the book. Also includes related correspondence with publisher, contract, research materials, bibliography)


Box 5 Folder 1 Aziia

Box 5 Folder 1 Baltika

Box 5 Folder 2 Finliandiia

Box 5 Folder 3 Gruziia, Armeniia

Box 5 Folder 4 Kazakhstan

Box 5 Folder 5 Kazaki

Box 5 Folder 6 Krainii sever (far north)

Box 5 Folder 7 Krym, Chernoe more

Box 5 Folder 8 Kyrgyzstan

Box 5 Folder 9 Malaia Rus', Ukraine

Box 5 Folder 10 Povolzh'e

Box 5 Folder 11 Puti Rossii

Box 5 Folder 12 Revoliutsiia i natsional'nyi vopros

Box 5 Folder 13 Russiia i Vostok

Box 5 Folder 14 Severnyi Kavkaz

Box 5 Folder 15 Shestnadtsat' russkikh respublik?

Box 5 Folder 16 Sibir' i Dal'nii Vostok

Box 5 Folder 17 Sredniaia Aziia

Box 5 Folder 18 Tadzhikistan

Box 5 Folder 19 Tatary, Bashkiriia

Box 5 Folder 20 Turkmenistan

Box 5 Folder 21 Uzbekistan

Box 5 Folder 22 Book plan, contract with publisher, related correspondence

Box 5 Folder 23 Bibliography and clippings


Box 6 Folder 1-5 "K zhizneopisaniiu Sviateishego Patriarkha Moskovskogo i Vseia Rusi Aleksiia", undated

Box 6 Folder 6 Chapters from untitled novel [XX Century], undated

Subseries II.2: Kazem-Bek's Biographical Writings, 1948-1949

Drafts and notes to Kazem-Bek's autobiography and photocopy of typescript of memoire piece.

Box 6 Folder 7 Autobiography, 1949, undated

(drafts, notes)

Box 6 Folder 8 Memoire, 1948

(photocopy of typescript)

Subseries II.3: Kazem-Bek's Articles, 1930-1973

Typescripts, handwritten notes, research materials; clippings and various newspapers with Kazem-Bek's printed articles in Russian, English, and French.

In Russian

Box 6 Folder 9 "35 let tomu nazad… i teper'", [1949]

Box 6 Folder 9 "1946 - pervyi poslevoennyi god", 1946

Box 6 Folder 9 "Anglo-russkii soiuz", undated

Berdiaev

Box 6 Folder 10 "Berdiaev o tserkvi", undated

Box 6 Folder 10 Untitled draft on Berdiaev, undated

Box 6 Folder 10 Research materials

Box 6 Folder 11 "Chto den' griadushchii nam gotovit?", undated

Box 6 Folder 11 "Chto god griadushchii nam gotovit?", undated

Box 6 Folder 11 "Gadalki i zvezdochety", undated

Box 6 Folder 12 "Dzhon R. Mott", 1945

(also included brochure "John R. Mott" by Ruth Rouse)

Box 6 Folder 13 "Ne predvidenie, a propaganda!", undated

Box 6 Folder 13 "O Germanii, kapitalizme I drugikh veshchakh", [1949]

Box 6 Folder 13 "O mobilizatsii amerikanskoi demokratii dlia total'noi voiny", undated

Box 6 Folder 13 "Ot fantasmagorii k deistvitel'nosti", undated

Box 6 Folder 13 "Pis'mo v redaktsiiu gazety 'Pravda'", 1957

Box 6 Folder 13 "Posle chuda Stalingrada", 1943

Box 6 Folder 14 "Rasprostranenie khristianstva na russkom Severe", undated

(also included English translation)

Box 6 Folder 15 "Rossiia i Iaponiia: Bor'ba za Sakhalin v proshlom i v nastoiashchem", undated

Box 6 Folder 15 "Tri izmeny obshchemu delu", undated

Box 6 Folder 16 Untitled articles and drafts, 1941, undated

Subject articles


Box 7 Folder 1 Articles for Novaia Zaria newspaper, 1940s-1950s

(See also: Series VIII: Printed Materials -- Subseries VIII.2: Periodicals -- Novaia Zaria; boxes 28-34)

Religious themes

Articles 1-10, undated

Box 7 Folder 2 "Spor episkopov s mirianami"

Box 7 Folder 2 "S tserkoviu ili s Karlovtsami?"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Karlovtsy i Gitler do voiny"

Box 7 Folder 2 "'Ierarkhi' iz oboza germanskoi armii"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Karlovtsy vo vremia i posle voiny"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Tserkovsnoie zapreshchenie"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Vselenskoie edinstvo pravoslaviia"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Solidarnost' sester-tser'kvei s russkoi tserkoviiu"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Loial'nost' grazhdan-khristian"

Box 7 Folder 2 "Poslushanie i svoboda v tserkvi"

Various articles

Box 7 Folder 3 "Igumen Velikoi Lavry"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Konets brestskoi unii"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Pochin Stefana Permskogo"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Podvig ravnoapostol'noi Niny"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Religiia, kak stroi zhizni"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Tserkov'"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Tserkovnaia avtokefaliia?"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Tserkovnyi sobor v Moskve"

Box 7 Folder 3 "Zametka ob otnoshenii pravoslavnoi tserkvi k sotsial'nomu voprosu"

Box 7 Folder 3 Untitled typescripts and handwritten drafts of various articles

Printed articles

(Articles printed in various Russian newspapers:Bodrost', Novaia Zaria, Novoe russkoe slovo, Russkii golos, Svet, and others)


Box 19 Folder 1-9 Clippings, 1942-1954


Box 20-34 OS Oversized, 1930-1956

(oversize flat boxes)

In English


Box 7 Folder 4 "Andrei Nikolaevich Ingatiev: In Memoriam", 1973

Box 7 Folder 4 Ballet

(notes)

Box 7 Folder 5 "Gide and Dostoyevsky", undated

Box 7 Folder 6 "Gogol", 1947

(article for Collier&Son encyclopedia)

Box 7 Folder 7 "Japan Follows 1904 Strategy of Stab in Back", 1941

Box 7 Folder 7 "Problems in Teaching of Russian", undated

Box 7 Folder 7 "Russia and America", undated

Box 7 Folder 7 "Russian Easter", undated

Box 7 Folder 8 "Russian work of the YMCA in the USA", 1945

Box 7 Folder 9 "Thirty Eight Years Ago… Russian Pearl Harbor", [1941]

Box 7 Folder 9 "Why Russia Does Not Have a Fifth Column", undated

In French

Box 7 Folder 10 "Ame Russe Contre L'Hitlerisme", 1939

Box 7 Folder 10 "Cas d'Anastace Vonsiatsky", undated

Box 7 Folder 10 "Evolution Politique de la France Depuis l'Armistice de 1940", undated

Box 7 Folder 10 "Nationalisme Russe dans le Conflit Mondial", 1939

Box 7 Folder 10 "Patriotisme Russe et la Guerre", 1939

Box 7 Folder 10 "Russie-Angleterre: Une Alliance en Depit des Polemes", undated

Box 7 Folder 10 "Traite d'Alliance Anglo-Russe a Été Conclu il y a Un An", undated

Box 7 Folder 11 Untitled

Subseries II.4: Kazem-Bek's Various Writings, [1935]-1948

Typescripts, drafts and notes of addresses, lectures, talks, interviews, reviews, memoranda, sermons.

Addresses, Talks, and Lectures

Box 7 Folder 12 "Brat'ia-chekhi!", undated

Box 7 Folder 12 "Brat'ia poliaki!", undated

Box 7 Folder 12 "Byvshim chlenam Mladorosskoi Partii, prozhivaiushchim v Soedinennykh Shtatakh", 1942

Box 7 Folder 12 "Chem grozila by russkomu narodu pobeda Germanii", undated


Box 12 Folder 17 "Rossiia, mladorossy i emigratsiia", [1935]

(collection of speeches and talks)


Box 7 Folder 12 To Russian groups. Detroit, Chicago, 1942

Box 7 Folder 13 Book Review: On Paul Anderson book

Box 7 Folder 14 Interviews, 1937-1942

Memoranda, 1942-1943


Box 3 Folder 8 Etude Destinee au Military Intelligence Service, War Department, undated

(part of the "U.S. War Department" folder of the Series I: Correspondence -- Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence)


Box 12 Folder 16 "Mladoross Movement", 1943

(typescript of confidential memorandum prepared for the San-Francisco Office Military Intelligence Service)


Box 7 Folder 15 On Radio Broadcasts in the Russian Language to the Soviet Union, 1942

(with related materials)

Box 7 Folder 16 On the Ukrainian Emigration, 1942

(in English and Russian)


Box 3 Folder 8 Some notes on Russia, 1943

(part of the "U.S. War Department" folder of the Series I: Correspondence -- Subseries I.4: Subject correspondence)


Box 7 Folder 17 Sermons, 1945-1948

(in English and Russian)

Subseries II.5: Writings by other authors, 1906-1953

Manuscripts and typescripts of works by various authors, including manuscripts of such prominent authors as Nikolai Berdiaev, Boris Likhachev, Nikolai Vakar, and others. Printed works of various authors are part of the Series VIII: Printed Materials.


Box 8 Folder 1 Aleksii, Arkhiepiskop Iaroslavskii (Sergeev). "Sviatyie patrioty", undated

(handwritten manuscript)

Box 8 Folder 2 Anderson, Paul B. "What is France's Future", 1945

(broadcast)

Box 8 Folder 3 Berdiaev, Nikolai. "Razdor mira i khristianstvo", undated

(handwritten manuscript)

Box 8 Folder 4 Cameron, W. J., "Russia", 1942

(speech)

Box 8 Folder 5 Canan, Bromley. "He Came Too Soon, This Christ", undated

(address)

Box 8 Folder 6 Durksen, E. "Russische Emigration am Scheideweg", 1938

Likhachev, Boris

Box 8 Folder 7 "Quelques Reflexions sur des Themes Monarchiques", 1952

Box 8 Folder 7 "Russian Problem: Idealogical Factor in the Fight against the Communism", 1953

(handwritten draft)

Box 8 Folder 7 "Russian Problem: Vulnerable point of the Sovietic regime at the present moment", 1953

Box 8 Folder 8 Presniakov, Aleksandr: "Nash tserkovnyi vopros,", [1906]

Box 8 Folder 9 Smirnov, N.P. "Sinteticheskii obzor I problemy metodov v fenologicheskikh issledovaniiakh", undated

Box 8 Folder 10 Vakar, Nikolai. "Rossiia - Slavianam: 75 let tomu nazad", undated

Box 8 Folder 11 Woodhouse, C. M. "Dostoievsky as Prophet", undated

Box 8 Folder 12 Unidentified