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Title: Vakhan Fomich Totomiants papers
Date (inclusive): 1923-1951
Collection Number: 2001C17
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
1 microfilm reel
(0.15 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings and biographical data, relating to economic cooperative movements and theory, and to Russian émigré affairs.
Creator:
Totomiant͡s, Vakhan F. (Vakhan Fomich), 1875-1964
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2001.
[Identification of item], Vakhan Fomich Totomiants papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
| 1875 February 3 | Born, Astrakhan', Russia |
| 1898 | Ph.D., University of Brussels, Belgium |
| 1915 | Ph.D., Kiev University |
| 1918 | Author, Teoriia kooperatsii |
| 1921 | Author, Istoriia ekonomicheskikh i sotsial'nykh uchenii |
| 1922-1930 | Taught at several universities and institutes in Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| 1923 | Author, Osnovy kooperatsii |
| 1943 | Author, Iz moikh vospominanii |
| 1956 | Author, Iz istorii russkoi ekonomicheskoi mysli |
Vakhan Fomich Totomiants was born into an Armenian family in Astrakhan' on 3 February 1875. He graduated from the University
of Brussels (1898) and received his Ph. D. from the University of Kiev (1915). As a specialist in cooperative economics, he
wrote several treatises on cooperatives and economics in general: Teoriia kooperatsii (1918), Istoriia ekonomicheskikh i sotsial'nykh
uchenii (1921), Osnovy kooperatsii (1923), and Iz istorii russkoi ekonomicheskoi mysli (1956).
Generally considered to be one of the leading figures in the field, he taught in Kharkov', Kiev, Moscow and St. Petersburg,
and following his emigration from Russia at several universities and institutes in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria between
the wars.
Vakhan F. Totomiants was a prominent theorist of economic cooperation, with many published works on the subject to his credit.
This collection contains a number of his newspaper articles, reviews of his works and unpublished writings, particularly on
economic subjects.
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 remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. 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 -- Czechoslovakia
Cooperative societies