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Title: Nikolai Valentinov Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1912-1964
Collection number: 65003
Creator:
Valentinov, N. (Nikolai), 1879-1964
Collection Size:
9 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope
3.9 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, clippings, reports, and photographs, relating to Russian
revolutionary movements and emigre life, Imperial Russian and Soviet agricultural and
economic policies, labor movements, Menshevism, and political events in Russia.
Language:
Russian and
English.
Collection open for research.
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[Identification of item], Nikolai Valentinov Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1965.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
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http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924.
Rossiiskaia sotsial-demokraticheskaia rabochaia partiia.
Mensheviks.
Agriculture--Soviet Union.
Communism.
Labor movement--Russia.
Land tenure--Russia.
Peasantry--Russia.
Revolutionaries--Russia.
Russians in foreign countries.
Socialism--Russia.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Economic policy.
Russia--History.
Soviet Union--Industries.
| 1879 | Born, Morshansk, Tambov Province, Russia |
| 1897 | Enters Petersburg Institute of Technology, joins revolutionary movement and is exiled to Ufa |
| 1900 | Returns from exile, studies at Kiev Polytechnic Institute, is arrested for revolutionary activities, escapes to Europe |
| 1903-1904 | Meets Lenin in Geneva, joins Social Democratic Party (Bolsheviks) |
| 1905 | Returns to Russia, breaks with Lenin and the Bolshevik Party. Joins the Mensheviks |
| 1905-1917 | Begins lifelong engagement in journalism. Contributes to Russkoe Slovo and Kievskaia Mysl'. Resigns from Menshevik Party |
| 1917-1927 | Edits Torgovo-Promyshlennaia Gazeta, organ of the Supreme Council of National Economy of the U.S.S.R. |
| 1928 | Emigrates to Paris, France. Publishes in emigré and French press |
| 1953 | Author, Vstrechi s Leninym. English translation published in 1968 as Encounters with Lenin |
| 1954 | Author, Dva Goda s Simvolistami. English translation published in 1969 as Two Years With the Symbolists |
| 1964 | Dies, Paris, France |
| 1969 | Author (posthumously), The Early Years of Lenin |
This collection consists mostly of the correspondence and writings of Nikolai Vol'skii,
also known under the pseudonyms Nikolai Valentinov and E. Iur'evskii. The collection
covers the period of his emigration in Paris between 1932-1962. Of special interest is
the first part of the collection, which includes his correspondence with fellow socialists
in the emigration, (Mensheviks in particular). Also important is his correspondence with
European and American scholars interested in the history of socialism and the Russian
Revolution. The second part of the collection consists of typescript drafts of
Valentinov's writings with holograph annotations, and an untitled holograph
manuscript.