Register of the Elena Varneck papers
Finding aid prepared by Ronald Bulatoff
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Elena Varneck papers
Date (inclusive): 1930-1933
Collection Number: XX272
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
18 manuscript boxes
(7.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Research notes, drafts of writings, and translations, relating to a proposed publication entitled Revolution and Civil War
In Siberia and the Far East, pertaining to events of the Russian Revolution and Civil War in Siberia.
Creator:
Varneck, Elena, 1891-1976
Access
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.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Elena Varneck Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
| 1891 |
Born, Kiev, Russia |
| 1917 |
Translator at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for the Provisional Government |
| 1928-1929 |
Translator at the Harvard University Medical School |
| 1929-1942 |
Research Associate at the Hoover Institution |
| 1935 |
Editor of
The Testimony of Kolchak and Other Siberian Materials, published by Stanford University Press
|
| 1942-1945 |
Translator at the U.S. Department of State and at the first United Nations Conference |
| 1948-1951 |
Instructor of Russian language at Stanford University |
| 1976 |
Died, Stanford, CA |
Scope and Content Note
The Elena Varneck papers consist primarily of Elena Varneck's translations from Russian into English of published and unpublished
materials. Much of the translations are from newspapers and serials. Various aspects of social conditions and events during
the revolution and civil war in Siberia, 1917-1923, are made accessible in these translations. Some of these translations
were used in Varneck's book
The Testimony of Kolchak and Other Siberian Materials (1935).
In the writings series, E. Varneck's typescript autobiography details events and conditions in Russia prior to the 1917 Revolution.
Included are various references to the educational system and military schools during that time. This series also reflects
Varneck's own research and findings relating to the revolution and civil war in both Russia and Siberia.
There are also many translations on the same subject by E. Varneck of various manuscripts at the Hoover Institution Library
& Archives. These materials are cataloged by the name of author with an added entry under the name Elena Varneck. They are
also accessible by using the appropriate subject heading in the card catalog.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
CORRESPONDENCE
1930-1933
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent
WRITINGS
1930s
Scope and Contents note
Undated autobiography, essays, notes, and report, arranged alphabetically by topic within an untitled category and then by
title
Untitled typescripts with handwritten annotations, drafts, and notes
box 1, folder 6
Biographical information on various diplomats, military personnel, and statesmen
n.d.
box 1, folder 7
Russian Imperial Family, Murder of, 1918
box 1, folder 13
"Attempts to Create an All-Russian Government,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 14
Autobiography
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with handwritten annotations
box 2, folder 1-3
Autobiography
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with handwritten annotations
box 2, folder 4
"Bolshevik Revolution,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Outline. Typescript
box 2, folder 5
"The Government of Admiral Kolchak,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with handwritten annotations
box 2, folder 6
"Plan sbornika dokumentov i istoricheskikh materialov po revoliutsii, grazhdanskoi voiny i interventsii v Sibiri i na dal'nem
vostoke,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 2, folder 7
"Report to the Provisional Government from the Commission for Investigating the Circumstances of Events of April 4-6, 1920,
in Vladivostok,"
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Typescript with handwritten annotations
TRANSLATIONS AND EXCERPTS FROM VARIOUS PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED SOURCES, .
1930s
Scope and Contents note
Primarily typescripts with handwritten annotations.Translations of articles, essays, memoirs, excerpts from books, and other
materials, arranged alphabetically by topic within a general category and then by author. Includes notes relating to the translations
box 3, folder 2
Russia. Posol'stvo (United States), selected documents
box 11, folder 1-2
Directorate period and the Volga socialists
box 13, folder 14
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
box 15, folder 6-7
Overthrow of the government, 1918 November
box 16, folder 6
Secret White organizations
box 18, folder 1
Andrushkevich, Nikolai A., various writings relating to Siberia
1917-1923
box 18, folder 2
Efimov, A., "Expedition to the Suchan,"
Vestnik Veteranov
n.d.
box 18, folder 3
Iaremenko, A. N., "Dnevnik Kommunista,"
Revoliutsiia na Dal'nem Vostoke, Moscow
1923
