Register of the Harold H. Fisher papers

Finding aid prepared by Paul Karpuk
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Harold H. Fisher papers
Date (inclusive): 1917-1974
Collection Number: XX235
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 33 manuscript boxes, 44 card file boxes, 5 envelopes, 1 oversize box, l phonorecord (36.3 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Clippings, printed matter, notes, correspondence, pamphlets, articles, microfilm, and photographs, relating to the Soviet Union, the San Francisco Conference organizing the United Nations, the Civil War in Spain, Herbert Hoover and the American Relief Administration, and the history of Finland.
Creator: Fisher, Harold H. (Harold Henry), 1890-1975
Creator: United Nations Conference on International Organization (Location of meeting: San Francisco, Calif. Date of meeting or treaty signing: 1945.)

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Harold H. Fisher papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

1911 A.B., University of Vermont
1917-1918 Captain of field artillery, U.S. Army
1922 Assistant to Herbert Hoover with the American Relief Administration (A.R.A.); chief of history department of A.R.A.
1936 Honorary doctorate of humane letters (L.H.D.), University of Vermont
1943-1955 Director, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; professor of history, Stanford University
1945 Assistant to former governor Harold E. Stassen of U.S. Delegation to San Francisco Conference
1946-1947 Director, School of Naval Administration, Stanford University
1955-1960 Professor of international relations, San Francisco State College
Undated Also: Author of numerous books on the Soviet Union; editorial writer for the Washington Herald; business editor of The New Republic; radio news analyst for CBS and NBC; active in Asian scholarship; former director of Belgian-American Educational Foundation

Scope and Content of Collection

Clippings, printed matter, notes, correspondence, pamphlets, articles, microfilm, and photographs, relating to the Soviet Union, the San Francisco Conference organizing the United Nations, the Civil War in Spain, Herbert Hoover and the American Relief Administration, and the history of Finland.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
Soviet Union -- History
International relief
Finland -- History
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
American Relief Administration

 

Subject File 1917-1974

Scope and Contents note

Newspaper clippings, magazines, printed matter, pamphlets, correspondence, manuscripts of books, notes, scripts for lectures and radio broadcasts, and bulletins, arranged alphabetically by subject.
 

Africa

box 1

General 1952-1959

box 1

North Africa 1951-1956

box 1

Allen, Henry J., "Senator Allen Looks Into the Real Russia," clippings of a series of articles for the New York Evening Post 1933

box 1

Argentina 1945-1955

box 1

Armstrong, John A., "History of the C.P.S.U.," Mimeographed copy of a typewritten draft n.d.

 

Asia

box 1

Many Asias and Asian unity 1954-1956

box 2

Marxism in 1951-1959

box 2

Mind of 1955-1959

 

Australian Institute of International Affairs

box 2

Bulletins 1943-1946

box 2

Correspondence 1940-1946

box 2

Austria 1934-1938

box 2

Barnes, Joseph, clippings of articles on the Soviet Union for the New York Herald Tribune 1939

box 2

Blumenthal, "The Soviet Union and The United Nations," Mimeographed copy of a typewritten draft n.d.

box 3

Bricker Amendment 1952-1954

box 3

Cartoons 1948

box 3

Central Europe 1940-1941

 

Chamberlin, William Henry

box 3

"Manchukuo--Japan's Imperialistic Venture," clippings of a series of 6 articles for the Christian Science Monitor 1936

box 3

"Russia--without Benefit of Censor," clippings of a series of 18 articles for the Christian Science Monitor 1934

 

China

box 3

General 1946-1962

box 3

Communism in 1953 1957-1958

box 3

Empire and colonies 1958

box 3

Politics

box 3

Sinkiang 1935-1945

box 4

Colonialism 1949-1953

box 4

Comintern (3rd International) 1935-1939 1947

box 4

Communism abroad 1929-1941

box 4

Conference on the Transformation of Russian Society since 1861, April 25-27, 1958

box 4

Courts 1937

box 4

Cuba 1959-1963

box 4

Czechoslovakia 1936-1940

box 4

Democracy, Soviet-American ideas of 1933-1947

box 5

Duranty, Walter and Harold Denny, clippings of articles on the Soviet Union 1930-1940

box 6

Education 1951-1952

box 6

Educational Committee to Halt Atomic Weapons Spread 1966

box 6

Estonia - relations with Russia 1929

box 6

Far East 1934-1939

box 6

Fascism 1937-1939

 

Finland

 

General 1918-1919 1931-1941

box 6

1918-1919

box 7

1931-1938

box 7

1939

 

1940

box 7

January-March

box 7

March-October

box 7

Allies and the German king 1918

box 8

Chronology

box 8

Communist activities in 1929

box 8

Economic and social conditions 1929

 

Famine relief 1918-1923

box 8

General

box 8

Children

box 8

Russian refugees

box 8

Foreign policy 1929

box 8

German intervention and the Terror 1918

box 8

Karelia, (information on Karelia enclosed in envelope addressed to Herbert Hoover from the Finnish Legation) ca. 1921-1928

box 8

Maps and photographs

box 8

Relations with Russia 1929

box 8

Miscellany

box 8

Foreign - misc. 1935-1940

box 8

France 1935-1940

box 8

Freund, H. A.

 

Freund, H. A.

 

Lectures on the Soviet Union 1943-1946

box 9

Typewritten and handwritten drafts, typewritten mimeographed copies

 

Pamphlets (printed copies)

box 9

"Handelsrecht und Handels-Regulierung in der Sowjetunion (Business Rights and Government Influence in the Soviet Union)," 1928

box 9

"Juristiche Ubersicht (Jurisprudence)," 1932

box 9

"L'Avenir du Droit Civil dans l'Union Sovietique (Concerning Civil Rights in the Soviet Union)," 1937

box 9

"L'Etat sovietique et la Statut de ses Representations commerciales (The Soviet State and its Commercial Representation Statute)," 1934

box 9

"Soviet Law under 'Stalinism'," 1939

box 9

"Zasada Domicylu W Nowym Lotewskim Prawie Miedzynarodowym," (The Right of Domicile in the New Latvian International Law)," 1938

box 9

Radio broadcasts 1946

box 9

Germany 1935-1939

box 10

Great Britain 1936-1939

box 10

Greece 1936-1938

box 10

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library 1970-1974

box 10

History 1935-1938 1941-1945

box 10

Hoover (Herbert) and the American Relief Admnistration 1925

box 10

House Committee on Un-American Activities. Contempt of Congress against Dr. Jeremiah Standler and Mrs. Yolanda Hall 1966

box 10

Hungary 1936-1940

box 10

Indonesia 1945-1955

box 11

Internationale Vereinigung fuer Rechts-und Wirtschaftsphilosophie (International Organization for Rights and Scientific Philosophy)

box 11

Islam 1950-1956

box 11

Israel 1948-1958

box 11

Italy 1935-1940

box 11

Japan 1945-1952

box 11

Kelly, Fred C., "Notes from a Russian Diary," clippings of a series of articles for the New York Herald Tribune 1933.

box 11

Knickerbocker, H. R., "Fighting the Red Trade Menace," clippings of a series of 24 articles for the New York Evening Post 1930-1931

box 11

Korea 1948-1950

box 11

Latvia 1940

box 11

Lithuania 1929 1938-1940

box 11

Madison, Bernice, "Organization of Welfare Services in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1957," Typewritten draft n.d.

box 11

Malaya 1957

box 11

Manchurian Crisis 1931

box 12

Mason, John Brown, Research Resources; Annotated Guide to the Social Sciences, 1966. Mimeographed typewritten copy

box 12

Micronesia 1967-1969

box 12

Middle East 1950-1958

box 12

National Council for Civic Responsibility 1964-1966

box 12

Nazi-Soviet relations 1939-1941 1948

box 12

Neutralism 1955

box 12

New Deal 1935-1936

box 12

Newman, Joseph, "Russia Uncensored," clippings of a series of articles for the New York Herald Tribune 1949

box 13

Peace 1936-1942

box 13

Peace and Plenty - science and the post-war world 1941-1942

box 13

"Peaceful Change in Modern Society," conference presented by the Hoover Institution on its 50th anniversary 1969

box 13

Philippines 1941

box 13

Poland 1935-1953

box 13

RADIR project - Revolution 1943-1948

box 13

Relief - Europe 1941

box 13

Revolution, general 1931-1955

box 13

Rhineland crisis 1936

box 13

Rumania 1937-1940

box 13

Russia (Imperial) 1942-1957

 

San Francisco Conference 1944-1945

box 14

General

box 14

Amendments

box 14

British Commonwealth

box 14

Chapultapec Conference

box 14

Charter text

box 14

Closing of conference

box 14

Countries (individual)

box 15

Delegates

box 15

Dumbarton Oaks

box 15

Economic and social cooperation

box 15

Educational and cultural cooperation

box 15

Large vs. small states

box 16

Latin America

box 16

Membership

box 16

Organization

box 16

Personnel

box 16

Poland

box 16

Progress

box 16

Regions

box 17

Representation

box 17

Rights

box 17

Soviet Union

box 17

Stassen, Harold

box 17

Syria - Lebanon

box 17

Trusteeships

box 17

Veto

box 17

Voting

box 17

Working papers

box 18

World court

box 18

Yalta

box 18

Yugoslavia

box 18

Schapiro, Leonard, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union mimeographed copy of a typewritten draft of chapters 6-14 n.d.

box 18

School of Naval Administration, schedules and lists of guest speakers 1946-1947

box 18

Science and democracy 1933-1946

box 18

Science and revolution 1942-1950

box 18

Seminar on Peace Settlement, Hoover Library 1941

box 19

Sian 1936

 

Soviet Union

box 19

General 1917-1918 1930-1949

box 20

General

box 20

Armed Forces 1944-1948

box 20

Asia and 1944-1945

box 20

Atomic energy 1945-1947

box 20

Chronology (1936-1940)

box 20

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (C.P.S.U.) Twentieth Congress of 1956

box 21

Constitution, elections, and Supreme Soviet 1936-1940 1945

box 21

Culture 1943-1951

box 21

Daily life 1945-1949

box 21

Economy 1945-1952

box 21

Education 1947-1951

box 22

Five-Year Plan 1928-1933

 

Foreign relations 1930-1940

box 22

General 1932-1940

box 23

Collective security 1933-1939

box 23

Far East 1930-1940

box 23

Historiography 1946-1951

box 23

Industry, invention, and exploration 1935-1938

box 23

Law 1932-1938 1947-1949

box 24

Leaders 1945-1951

box 24

Nationality policy 1943-1951

box 24

Newspapers (copies of Pravda and Izvestia) 1946-1947

box 24

Post-war 1946-1950

box 24

Propaganda 1947-1949

box 24

Purges 1934-1937

 

Religion

box 24

1930-1938

box 25

1948

box 25

U.S. opinion of 1944-1947

box 25

War and peace 1937-1940

box 25

Workers 1932-1940

box 25

World War II 1939-1949

 

Spain

box 25

General 1956

 

Civil war

 

1936

box 25

July-December

box 25

September-November

 

1937

box 26

January

box 26

January-April

box 26

April-July

box 26

August-September

box 26

October-December

 

1938

box 27

February

box 27

March

box 27

April

box 27

May

box 27

June

box 27

July

box 27

August-December

box 27

1939-1940

box 28

Stalin, Joseph 1956-1962

box 28

Sudeten crisis 1938

box 28

Suez 1956

box 28

Trotsky, Leon, Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence, translated by Charles Malamuth, Typewritten carbon copy of changes made in galley copy. 1941.

box 28

Trust territories 1949-1950

box 28

Turkey 1939

box 28

Ukraine 1939-1940

 

United States

 

Communism in 1928-1937 1939-1940

box 28

1928-1937

box 28

1939-1940

box 28

Constitution 1952-1954

box 28

Finns in 1918-1927

box 28

Labor - strikes and organizations 1935-1937

box 28

Liberalism, anti-liberalism, fascism 1937-1940

box 28

Radicalism 1933-1941 1967

box 28

Revolution in 1948-1949

box 30

War Policy of 1935-1940

box 30

World War II, Communists in 1939-1941

box 30

Yalta Conference - official record 1955

 

Speeches and Writings 1926

Scope and Contents note

Books and articles, arranged alphabetically by title.
box 30

"The Beginning of the 'Third Period', 1928-1929," Typewritten draft, with typewritten carbon copies of appended documents n.d.

box 30

"The Character of American Participation in Euoropean Affairs since the War," Printed copy. 1926.

box 30

"History of Relief," Article prepared for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Typewritten draft. 1926.

 

Miscellany

Scope and Contents note

Card catalogs, microfilm and notes, arranged as listed.
 

Card catalogues

box 31

Chronology of historical events (for 1899-1939)

box 32

Research notes, alphabetized by subject

box 33

Research notes, alphabetized by subject

 

Microfilm

 

Partiinoe Stroitel'stvo - Zhurnal Tsentral'nogo Komiteta Vsesoiuznoi Kommunisticheskoi Partii (Party Structure - Journal of the Central Committee

box 34

Reel No. 1. 1929-1930

box 34

Reel No. 2. 1931

box 34

Reel No. 3. 1932-1933

box 34

Reel No. 4. 1933-1934

box 34

Reel No. 5. 1935-1936

box 35

Notes

box 36

Notes

 

Audio-Visual File

Scope and Contents note

Includes one record, photographs, and an album.
onsite digital

Sound recording of radio newscast 30 August 1946

Conditions Governing Access note

Use copy reference number: xx235_a_0002811

Scope and Contents note

Headline Edition. Newscast. August 30, 1946. Council of Foreign Ministers. Paris Peace Conference. Interview with Dr. Harold Fisher, Director of the School of Naval Administration, Stanford, Calif. 1 disc
envelope A

1 print of Harold H. Fisher with Army officers circa 1946-1947

envelope B

3 prints of paintings depicting the famine in Soviet Russia, plus 3 negatives 1918-1923

envelope C

1 framed print of Herbert C. and Lou Henry Hoover (autographed) undated

envelope mD

1 mounted print of a painting of Herbert C. Hoover (autographed) 1944

envelope E

5 prints of Harold H. Fisher and others; 2 prints of unidentified groups undated

album fF

1 photograph album of a conference 1954

 

Biographical Card File

Scope and Contents note

Biographical notes, relating mainly to persons figuring in the Russian Revolution, arranged alphabetically.
box 37

A

box 38

B-Bod

box 39

Bog-Ca

box 40

Ce-Da

box 41

De-E

box 42

F-Gi

box 43

Gl-Gz

box 44

H-I

box 45

J-Kh

box 46

Ki-Ks

box 47

Ku-Li

box 48

Ll-Maz

box 49

Mc-Mz

box 50

N-O

box 51

P-Poz

box 52

Pr-Roz

box 53

Ru-Se

box 54

Sh-Sr

box 55

St-Te

box 56

Th-Van

box 57

Var-W

box 58

X-Z

box 59

Miscellany

 

Miscellaneous Biographical Card File

Scope and Contents note

Biographical notes, unarranged.
box 60

Miscellaneous Biographical Card File

 

Lenin's Sochineniia Biographical Card File

Scope and Contents note

Index to persons mentioned in the Sochneniia of V. I. Lenin, arranged alphabetically.
box 61

A-Ke

box 62

Kh-Sh

box 63

Si-Z

 

Bibliographical Card File

Scope and Contents note

Bibliographical references to topics mainly associated with the Russian Revolution, unarranged.
box 64

Biographical Card File

box 65

Biographical Card File

box 66

Biographical Card File

box 67

Biographical Card File

box 68

Biographical Card File

 

Biographical Card File II

Scope and Contents note

Biographical notes, relating mainly to persons figuring in the Russian Revolution, arranged alphabetically.
box 69

A-C

box 70

D-H

box 71

I-L

box 72

M-Q

box 73

R-S

box 74

T-Z

 

Newspaper Card File

Scope and Contents note

Notes relating to newspapers and other periodicals, mainly associated with the Russian Revolution, arranged alphabetically.
box 75

A-Ko

box 76

Kr-Sot

box 77

Sov-Z

box 29

Material not yet described