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Title: Petr Berngardovich Struve papers
Date (inclusive): 1890-1987
Collection Number: 79083
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Russian
Physical Description:
58 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope
(24.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, memoranda, essays, editorial files, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia
relating to Russia in World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War, anti-Bolshevik movements, the Russian economy and
industry, conditions in the Soviet Union after the Revolution, and Russian literary and political émigré affairs. Includes
papers of the wife and sons of Petr Struve.
Creator:
Struve, Petr Berngardovich, 1870-1944
Creator:
Rossiĭskoe T͡Sentral'noe Ob'edinenie
Creator:
Rossīĭskīĭ zarubezhnyĭ sʺi͡ezdʺ (Location of meeting: Paris, France. Date of meeting or treaty signing: 1926.)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
"Microfilm use only except Boxes 46-58, Envelope A, and memorabilia.
The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of
intended use."
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1979, with increments received in 1980, 1982, 1983,
and 1985.
[Identification of item], Petr Berngardovich Struve papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Also available on microfilm (59 reels).
| 1870 | Born, Perm, Russia |
| 1894 | Published Critical Observations on the Problem of Russia's Economic Development |
| Graduated from the University of St. Petersburg | |
| 1897 | Editor, Novoe Slovo |
| 1899 | Editor, Nachalo |
| 1901 | Began publishing the weekly Osvobozhdenie (Stuttgart) |
| Immigrated to Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Arrested and banished from Petrograd | |
| 1905 | Returned to Russia and joined the Constitutional-Democratic (Cadet) Party |
| 1907 | Elected to Second Duma |
| 1907-1914 | Editor, Russkaia Mysl' (Petrograd) |
| 1914-1916 | Member, Government Commission on Food Supply |
| 1916 | Awarded doctorate at Cambridge University |
| 1917 | Joined the Russian Provisional Government and resigned shortly afterward |
| Elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| 1919 | Editor, Velikaia Rossiia (Southern Russia) |
| 1919-1921 | Minister of Foreign Affairs, Volunteer (White) Army under General Vrangel' |
| 1923-1924 | Editor, Russkaia Mysl' (Prague) |
| 1925-1927 | Editor, Vozrozhdenie (Paris) |
| 1927-1928 | Editor, Rossiia (Paris) |
| 1928-1934 | Contributor, Rossiia i Slavianstvo (Paris) |
| 1944 February 26 | Died, Paris, France |
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, memoranda, essays, editorial files, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia
relating to Russia in World War I, the Russian Revolution and Civil War, anti-Bolshevik movements, the Russian economy and
industry, conditions in the Soviet Union after the Revolution, and Russian literary and political émigré affairs. Includes
papers of the wife and sons of Petr Struve.
Incremental materials received subsequent to the creation of this register are listed at the end of the register.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russian literature
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
Soviet Union -- History
Refugees
Soviet Union -- Social conditions
Anti-communist movements
Statesmen -- Russia
Industries -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- Economic conditions
Vrangelʹ, Petr Nikolaevich, Baron, 1878-1928
Vooruzhennye Sily na I͡Uge Rossii