Register of the Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia Miscellaneous papers

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Title: Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia miscellaneous papers
Date (inclusive): 1919-1931
Collection Number: XX011
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes, 5 envelopes (1.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, biographical data, and photographs, relating to the life of E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia. Includes drafts of the book by E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia, The Hidden Springs of the Russian Revolution (Stanford University Press, 1931); a biographical sketch of E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia by Aleksandr Kerenskii; and three letters by E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia.
Creator: Breshko-Breshkovskai͡a, Ekaterina Konstantinovna, 1844-1934
Creator: Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich, 1881-1970
Creator: Dietrich, Irene

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1978.

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[Identification of item], Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia Miscellaneous papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

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Also available on microfilm (3 reels).

BIOGRAHICAL NOTE

1844, January 13 Born, Vitebsk, Russia
1873 Began revolutionary activity
1874 Joined the Chaikovskii "To the People" Movement in St. Petersburg. Arrested and sentenced to five years of hard labor
1879 Exiled to Siberia
1896 Returned and was active in the Socialist-Revolutionary Party
  Received permission to return to European Russia.
1903 Participated in the International Socialist Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1903-1905 Travelled abroad
1905 Illegally returned to Russia
1908 Arrested and sentenced to lifetime exile in Siberia
1917 Freed from exile by the February Revolution
1921 Left Russia to live in emigration
1931 Author, Hidden Springs of the Russian Revolution
1934, September 12 Died, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Revolutionaries -- Russia
Partīi͡a sot͡sīalistov-revoli͡ut͡sīonerov

 

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1930-1934

Scope and Contents

Clippings, printed matter and reports relating to the life of E. Breshko-Breshovskaia
box 1, folder 1

General

box 1, folder 2

Bell, T. H., obituary on E. Breshko-Breskovskaia 1934

box 1, folder 3

Kerensky, Alexander, "K. K. Breshkovskaia i Eia Druz'ia v Istorii Rossii," Paris, English translation included 1930.

 

CORRESPONDENCE 1919-1929

Scope and Contents

Letters from and to E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia. Arranged alphabetically by name of corres-pondent
box 1, folder 4

Unindentified letters 1919

box 1, folder 5

Bell, T. H. 1929

box 1, folder 6

Zubov, Petr 1919

 

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS 1873-1931

Scope and Contents

Holographs and typescripts of E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia's speeches and writings. Arranged chronologically
box 1, folder 7

Autobiographical account, Holograph. 1873-1878.

box 1, folder 8

"Obrashchenie k kooperatoram cherez tovarishcha Burygina v Tomske," Holograph n.d.

box 1, folder 9

"Zakliuchenie," Holograph n.d.

box 1, folder 10

"The Czecho-Slovaks in Russia," speech, New York. Typewritten photocopy 1919 March 14.

 

Hidden Springs of the Russian Revolution, Stanford 1931

 

General

box 1, folder 11

Editor's Preface. Typescript

box 1, folder 12

Glossary of Russian words. Typescript

 

Drafts and notes

box 1, folder 13

Notes to various chapters. Typescript

box 1, folder 14

"The Historical Development of the Russian Re- volution." Typescript

box 1, folder 15

"The Intelligentsia." Typescript

box 1, folder 16

"The Peasantry." Holograph

box 1, folder 17

"The Religious Feeling of the Peasantry." Typescript

box 1, folder 18

"Revolution." Typescript

box 1, folder 19

"The Value of the 'To the People' Movement." Holograph and typescript

box 1, folder 20

"The Weak Points of the Russians." Holograph and typescript

box 1, folder 21

Untitled drafts. Typescripts

box 2, folder 1-3

Untitled drafts. Typescripts

box 2, folder 4-5

Untitled fragments. Holographs and typescripts

 

Typescript

box 2, folder 6

Dedication. Includes holograph.

box 2, folder 7

Chapter I. "Kiev, " 1873

box 2, folder 8

Chapter II. "The Tschaikovski Groups, St. Petersburg, " 1873

box 2, folder 9

Chapter III. "Wanderings in the Ukraine"

box 2, folder 10

Chapter IV. "The Stundists"

box 2, folder 11

Chapter V. "Arrest"

box 2, folder 12

Chapter VI. "In the Prison of Bratzlav"

box 2, folder 13

Chapter VII. "The Prison at Kiev"

box 2, folder 14

Chapter VIII. "At the Soushtchev Police Station"

box 2, folder 15

Chapter IX. "The House for Preliminary Detention, " 1875

box 2, folder 16

Chapter X. "My Companions in the House for Pre- liminary Detention"

box 2, folder 17

Chapter XI. "The Fortress, " 1876-1877

box 2, folder 18

Chapter XII. "Preparation for the Trial"

box 2, folder 19

Chapter XIII. "House for Preliminary Detention, " 1877-78

box 2, folder 20

Chapter XIV. "The Trial of the 193"

box 2, folder 21

Chapter XV. "Sentenced. Litovski Castle"

box 3, folder 1

Chapter XVI. "The Journey Out, " 1878

box 3, folder 2

Chapter XVII. "Nether-Kara, " 1878-79

box 3, folder 3

Chapter XVIII. "Barguzin, " 1879-1881

box 3, folder 4

Chapter XIX. "Ivan Linev"

box 3, folder 5

Chapter XX. "Preparations for Escape, " 1881

box 3, folder 6

Chapter XXI. "The Escape, " 1881

box 3, folder 7

Chapter XXII. "The Capture, " 1881

box 3, folder 8

Chapter XXIII. "Spread of Revolutionary Ideas, " 1881-1905

box 3, folder 9

Chapter XXIV. "The Revolutions of " 1905 and 1917

box 3, folder 10

Chapter XXV. "The Intelligentsia"

box 3, folder 11

Chapter XXVI. "The Peasants