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Title: Vladimir L'vovich Burtsev papers
Date (inclusive): 1906-1935
Collection Number: 66000
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
2 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope
(0.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, essays, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to the Menshevik and Social Revolutionary movements before 1917,
Evno Azef and other Okhrana agents, and counterrevolutionary movements during the Russian Revolution. Also available on microfilm
(2 reels).
Creator:
Burt͡sev, V. L. (Vladimir Lʹvovich), 1862-1942
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1966.
[Identification of item], Vladimir L'vovich Burtsev papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1862 | Born, Russia |
| 1880-1882 | Student at the University of St. Petersburg |
| 1882 | Expelled from the University of St. Petersburg and exiled to Siberia |
| 1888 | Arrived in Zurich, Switzerland and founded the magazine Svobodnaia Rossiia |
| 1897 | Began to publish Narodovolets in London |
| 1898 | Began to publish Byloe in London |
| 1903 | Expelled from France and Switzerland |
| 1909 | Exposed Envo Azef as a tsarist provocateur highly placed within the Russian revolutionary movement |
| 1909-1910 | Published Obshchee delo |
| 1909-1917 | Exposed numerous individuals as tsarist provocateurs |
| 1911-1914 | Published Budushchee |
| 1917 March | Returned to Russia |
| 1917 October | Arrested by the Bolshevik government and escaped from Russia |
| 1917-1922 | Published Obshchee delo |
| 1922-1942 | Pursued and exposed Soviet agents |
| 1942 | Died |
Scope and Content of Collection
Memoirs, essays, correspondence, and printed matter, relating to the Menshevik and Social Revolutionary movements before 1917,
Evno Azef and other Okhrana agents, and counterrevolutionary movements during the Russian Revolution. Also available on microfilm
(2 reels).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Socialism -- Russia
Revolutionaries -- Russia
Secret service -- Russia
Agents provocateurs -- Russia
Rossiĭskai͡a sot͡sial-demokraticheskai͡a rabochai͡a partii͡a
Partīi͡a sot͡sīalistov-revoli͡ut͡sīonerov
Russia. Okhrannyi͡a otdi͡elenīi͡a
Azef, Evno Fishelevich, 1869-1918