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Title: Ivan V. Emel'ianov papers
Date (inclusive): 1908-1960
Collection Number: 2000C22
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Russian
Physical Description:
14 microfilm reels
(2.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Russian agricultural cooperative movement
and to the theory of economic cooperation. Includes papers of Nataliia V. Emel'ianova, chemist and wife of I. V. Emel'ianov.
Creator:
Emelianov, Ivan Vasilevich, 1880-1945
Creator:
Emel'i͡anova, Natalii͡a V., 1890-
Physical Location: Originals: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco
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.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1999.
[Identification of item], Ivan V. Emel'ianov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
A prominent specialist in the field of cooperative economic theory, I. V. Emel'ianov was born at Uspenskii zavod, Tobol'skaia
guberniia, on 1 November 1880 (O. S.). In 1900, he graduated from Tobol'sk seminary, but decided to continue his education
in the field of agronomy. In 1907 he graduated from Kiev Polytechnic Institute with a degree in that subject, proceeding to
work as an agronomist for local zemstvo organizations. From 1910 to 1912 he served as agricultural agent for the Ekaterinoslavskoe
zemstvo in the United States. Following his return to Russia, most of his career was spent in various capacities in the Khar'kov
region, where he worked closely with cooperative organizations.
In 1917, he was elected a member of the Khar'kov gubernskaia zemskaia uprava and Chairman of the Board of the Khar'kov Zemstvo
Bureau of Small Credit. In September 1919 under the White regime he was appointed chairman of the Khar'kov gubernskaia zemskaia
uprava. The same year, he became an officer of the Selosoyus cooperative and Moscow Narodny Bank. Arriving in Prague in 1921,
he proceeded to help found the Russkii institut sel'sko-khoziaistvennoi kooperatsii (of which he was deputy director until
1927) and established the journals Zemledelie and Khutor, which he edited.
Emigrating to the United States at the invitation of Rutgers University, he taught there until 1933, thereafter working for
various government agencies as an economist. His Ph. D. thesis at Columbia, Economic Theory of Cooperation was completed in
1942, only some three years before his death in Washington, D.C. on 17 December 1945.
Biographiccal Note: Ivan V. Emel'ianov
| 1880 November 1 (O.S.) | Born, Uspenskii Zavod, Tobol'sk guberniia, Russia |
| 1900 | Graduated, Tobol'sk Seminary |
| 1907 | Graduated, Kiev Polytechnic Institute |
| 1910-1912 | Agricultural Agent of the Ekaterinoslavskoe zemstvo in the United States |
| 1912 | Appointed agronomist for Khar'kovskoe gubernskoe zemstvo |
| 1913 February 6 | Married Nataliia Osviatinskaia |
| 1917 | Elected member of the Kar'kovskaia zemskaia uprava and appointed Chairman of the Board of the Khar'kov zemstvo Bureau of Small Credit |
| 1919 September | Appointed director of the Khar'kovsakaia zemskaia uprava |
| 1919-1921 | Member, Board of directors, Selosoyus, Limited and Moskovskii Narodnyi Bank (also their representative abroad) |
| 1921 | Arrived, Prague, Czechoslovakia Editor, Zemledelie |
| 1921-1927 | Professor of economics and Vice-Director, Russkii Institut sel'sko-khoziaistvennoi kooperatsii, Prague |
| 1922 | Editor, Khutor |
| 1923 | Magister of Agronomy (Agricultural economics), Department of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Russkaia akademicheskaia gruppa v Prage Author, Kooperativnyia organizatsii sredi zemlediel'tsev |
| 1927 | Emigrated to the United States |
| 1927-1933 | Professor, Rutgers University |
| 1933-1939 | Economist, various positions, National Recovery Administration, Department of Labor, National Economic Committee |
| 1940-1945 | Economic Analyst, U.S. Bureau of the Census |
| 1942 | Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University Author, Economic Theory of Cooperation |
| 1945 December 17 | Died, Washington, D.C. |
Biographiccal Note: Nataliia V. Emel'ianova
| 1890 August 26 (O.S.) | Born, Khar'kov, Russia (née Nataliia Osviatinskaia) |
| 1913 February 6 | Married Ivan V. Emel'ianov, Khar'kov |
| 1919 | Graduated, Khar'kov University |
| 1921 May | Arrived, Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1925 | Ph.D. (Dr. of Natural Sciences), Chemistry, Charles University, Prague Author, Researches with the Dropping Mercury Cathode: Nickel and Cobalt |
| 1925-1927 | Research Assistant, Charles University |
| 1927 | Arrived, New York |
| 1928 | Author (with J. Heyrovský), Maxima on Current Voltage Curves |
| 1929-1932 | Research Assistant, Laboratory of Experimental Therapeutics, Cornell University |
| 1940-1961 | Russian language teacher, Washington, D.C., Berlitz School of Languages, CIA, and Trinity College) |
| 1948 March 25 | Elected active member, New York Academy of Sciences |
| 1965 | Died, Washington, D.C. |
This collection contains the papers of the noted theoretician of cooperative economics, Ivan V. Emel'ianov. Most of the collection
consists of his writings on cooperative issues and correspondence relating to his scholarly and social activities while in
Czechoslovakia (1921-1927) and the United States (1927-1945). Special mention should be made of the correspondence and research
material for his dissertation, subsequently published as
The Economic Theory of Cooperation. Correspondence and subject file material also illustrate his involvement in Russian émigré organizations of an educational
and social character in both countries. There is also a set of documents pertaining to his activities during the Russian Civil
War, when he represented cooperative organizations in Europe.
Many of Emel'ianov's publications are printed copies that include the entire issue of the periodicals they appeared in, which
are very often themselves bibliographic rarities. A printed matter series, which includes a significant number of rare publications
on cooperative issues by other authors, supplements Emel'ianov's own work in this field.
His wife, Nataliia Emel'ianova, was a chemist by profession, and the collection contains a number of her scientific publications,
as well as biographical information and correspondence detailing her involvement in émigré life.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials and copyright to
them (with some exceptions) are the property of the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco. A transfer table indicating
corresponding box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
Russians -- Czechoslovakia
Agriculture -- Russia
Cooperative societies
Cooperative societies -- Russia
Chemistry