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Title: Laurie Manchester collection
Date (inclusive): 1927-2018
Collection Number: 2015C31
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
12 manuscript boxes, optical media
(5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoirs, newsletters, and other printed matter relating to the Russian community in Harbin, China. Consists
mainly of correspondence among Russian former residents of Harbin.
source:
Manchester, Laurie
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 2015, with an increment in 2017.
[Identification of item], Laurie Manchester collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
Laurie Manchester, a professor of Russian history, collected materials on the Russian community in Harbin, China while writing
a book about Harbin repatriates. In the course of her research, she developed this collection of original materials, mainly
correspondence among the repatriates relating to their experiences and the fates of colleagues, friends, and family members
who took Soviet citizenship and moved to China from Manchuria in the late 1940s to the 1950s.
Much of the correspondence is between Albina Kosareva and her friends, as well as other members of communities of former Harbin
dwellers in Kurgan, Omsk, Novosibirsk, and other Soviet cities, as well as between them and those who remained abroad (in
Australia and North and South America).
This collection gives insight into how people responded to life in the late 1970s to 1980s and discusses Perestroika, Glasnost,
the events surrounding the break-up of the USSR, and how, as soon as it became possible to form volunteer associations, the
Harbiners found each other and established societies across the country.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- China
Harbin (China) -- History
Manchester, Laurie