Inventory of the Barbara C. Allen papers

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Title: Barbara C. Allen papers
Date (inclusive): 1992-2015
Collection Number: 2009C56
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes (1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Photocopies of notes on and transcripts of correspondence, writings and police records drawn from files on Aleksandr Shli͡apnikov and Sergeǐ Medvedev in Russian archival repositories, 1917-1958, relating to the Workers Opposition movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Includes digital sound recording and transcript of interviews of I͡U. A. Shli͡apnikov, son of Aleksandr Shli͡apnikov. Used as research material for the book by Barbara Allen, Alexander Shllyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Leiden, 2015).
Creator: Allen, Barbara C. (Barbara Carol), 1967-
Creator: Shli͡apnikov, I͡U. A. (I͡Uriĭ Aleksandrovich)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2009, with an increment received in 2017.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Barbara C. Allen papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

American historian.

Scope and Content of Collection

Photocopies of notes on and transcripts of correspondence, writings, and police records drawn from files on Aleksandr Shli͡apnikov and Sergeǐ Medvedev in Russian archival repositories, 1917-1958, relating to the Workers Opposition movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Includes digital sound recording and transcript of interviews of I͡U. A. Shli͡apnikov, son of Aleksandr Shli͡apnikov. Used as research material for the book by Barbara Allen, Alexander Shllyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Leiden, 2015).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Political prisoners -- Soviet Union
Communism -- Soviet Union
Political purges -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936
Shli͡apnikov, A. G. (Aleksandr Gavrilovich), 1885-1937
Medvedev, Sergeǐ Pavlovich, 1885-1937
Rabochai͡a oppozit͡sii͡a (Political party)

box 1

Notebooks 1-7

box 2

Notebook 8, RGASPI notebooks 6-10 with inventory

box 3

Correspondence with descendants of Bolsheviks 1992-2003