Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC1059
Creator:
Lapidus, Gail W.
Title: Gail W. Lapidus papers
Dates: 1963-2010
Physical Description:
19 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Language(s): English and Cyrillic (exact Slavic language unknown, but presumably Russian)
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 36-48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc .
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
This collection was donated by Gail W. Lapidus to Stanford University, Special Collections in MONTH 2011
Information about Access
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Biographical/Historical note
Gail Lapidus is a Senior Fellow Emerita at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Lapidus is also
Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and served as Chair of the Berkeley-Stanford
Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies from 1985 to 1994. A specialist on Soviet society, politics and foreign policy,
she has authored and edited a number of books on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, including The New Russia: Troubled Transformation
(Westview Press, 1995), From Union to Commonwealth: Nationalism and Separatism in the Soviet Republics, with Victor Zaslavsky
and Philip Goldman (Cambridge University Press, 1992), The Soviet System in Crisis, with Alexander Dallin (Westview, 1992),
and Women in Soviet Society (University of California Press, 1979). A graduate of Radcliffe College, she received her MA and
PhD from Harvard University.
Lapidus is also the author of numerous articles and chapters, including "The War in Chechnya as a Paradigm of Russian State-Building
Under Putin," Post-Soviet Affairs, March 2004; "Putin's War on Terrorism: Lessons From Chechnya," Post-Soviet Affairs, January-March
2002; "Accommodating Ethnic Differences in Post-Soviet Eurasia," in Crawford Young and Mark Beissinger, eds., Beyond State
Crisis? Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective; "Transforming the 'National Question': New
Approaches to Nationalism, Federalism and Sovereignty," in Archie Brown, ed., The Demise of Marxism-Leninism in Russia (Palgrave,
2004); "Transforming Russia: American Policy in the 1990s," in Robert Lieber, ed., America Rules? Foreign Policy and American
Primacy in the 21st Century (Prentice Hall, 2001); and "Reagan and the Russians: American Policy Toward the Soviet Union,"
with Alexander Dallin, in Kenneth Oye et al., eds., Eagle Resurgent? The Reagan Era in American Foreign Policy (Little, Brown,
1987).
Lapidus is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, as well as of several scholarly associations. She has held a variety
of scholarly and administrative appointments, including president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies, chair of the Social Science Research Council's Joint Committee on Soviet Studies, the Advisory Council of the Woodrow
Wilson Center's Kennan Institute, the Committee on International Political Science of the American Political Science Association,
and the board of Trustees of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. She has held research fellowships at the Kennan
Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and at the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. A frequent visitor to the USSR and now to a number of successor states,
Professor Lapidus is currently working on a book on the impact of the Soviet legacy on patterns of conflict in the post-Soviet
states.
Scope and Contents
The papers consist primarily of research files containing both articles (in English and printed in Cyrillic - exact Slavic
language unknown, but presumably Russian) and drafts of papers on the Soviet Union from as early as 1966 and as late as the
early 2000s. The general themes include nationalism, ethnicity, federalism, and gender in the Soviet states. There are a great
many files dedicated to various organizations dealing with international relations and Soviet studies.
Access Terms
Nationalism--Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)--History.
Soviet Union--Ethnic relations.
Women's rights--Soviet Union.