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Title: Mark V. Vishniak papers
Date (inclusive): circa 1910-1995
Collection Number: 70000
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
19 manuscript boxes
(7.9 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches, writings, and clippings, relating to Russian and Soviet history, Russian revolutionists, Russian
émigrés, and political conditions in the Soviet Union by the Russian historian and Socialist Revolutionary Party leader.
Creator:
Vishni͡ak, M. V. (Mark Venʹi͡aminovich), 1883-1977
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
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1970
[Identification of item], Mark V. Vishniak Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Also available on microfilm (24 reels).
Biography / Administrative History
The Russian author and pre-Bolshevik politician was born in Moscow on January 15, 1883 later graduating from Moscow University.
As a law professor at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, he was an ardent Socialist Revolutionary, who, in 1918, was secretary
of the only freely elected Constituent Assembly in his country's history. He held the post only seventeen hours, until Lenin
disbanded the Parliament. After fleeing to Paris and then to New York in 1940 Vishniak later became
Time magazine's senior specialist on Soviet affairs and wrote 22 books. He died in New York City in 1976.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, speeches, writings, and clippings, relating to Russian and Soviet history, Russian revolutionists, Russian
émigrés, and political conditions in the Soviet Union by the Russian historian and Socialist Revolutionary Party leader.
The collection is organized into six series: Correspondence, Biographical File, Speeches and Writings, Subject File, Photographs
and Miscellany.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Soviet Union -- Politics and government
Revolutionaries -- Russia
Partīi͡a sot͡sīalistov-revoli͡ut͡sīonerov