The collection comprises thousands of copies of documents from Russian state archives, related to the history of Soviet foreign concessions of the 1920s to the early 1930s.

Sonia Melnikova-Raich was born in Moscow. She immigrated to the USA in 1987 and lives in San Francisco, where she works as a translator and independent researcher. She is an acknowledged expert on the subject of American roots of accelerated Soviet industrialization during the First Five-Year Plan. and an author of The Soviet Problem with Two "Unknowns": How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, which can be found in two issues of The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology included in her papers.

10 manuscript boxes, digital media (4.17 Linear Feet)

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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.