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Call Number: SC0764
Creator:
Vucinich, Wayne S.
Title: Wayne S. Vucinich papers
Dates: 1926-2002
Physical Description:
34 Linear feet (35 boxes)
Summary: The Wayne S. Vucinich papers include writings, research files, reports, photographs, and other documents related to Vucinich's
work.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
This collection is open for research. Materials must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Wayne S. Vucinich Papers (SC0764). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Wayne S. Vucinich joined the Stanford faculty in the Department of History in 1946, teaching courses on Western civilization
and Russian and East European history until 1988. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Slavic languages
and history at the University of California-Berkeley. After graduating in 1941 he joined the Office of Strategic Services
and served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1945. Vucinich's many publications include
Serbia Between East and West (1954),
The Ottoman Empire: Its Record and Legacy (1965),
The Peasant in 19th-Century Russia (1968),
Contemporary Yugoslavia (1969),
Russia and Asia (1972) and
Eastern Europe (1973). He died on April 21, 2005.
Vucinich's papers were received in four accessions. The first accession consists primarily of typescript drafts of Vucinich's
research, largely on the history of Yugoslavia and of Serbs in California. Most of the typescripts were done between 1977
and 1988, after which they were done on computers and are not dated. There is an occasional page in longhand, clipping, or
other printed source material. Reprints of some of Vucinich's shorter works (1946-1995) are included. Of note are 5 questionnaires
completed by Yugoslavs in California about their life in the old country and in the United States, 1977 and undated. There
is no correspondence in this first accession.
The second accession has two parts. Part 1 consists of typescript drafts of his research, with some source materials, on Bileca
Rudine, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and the Bulgarian resistance during World War II, and includes Vucinich's correspondence during
his time in the OSS, 1943-44. Part 2 pertains to the Joint Stanford-Yugoslav Trebisnjica Archeological Project (1967-69) and
includes reports, sketches, maps, and photographs.
The third and fourth accessions include biographical and career documents; further research and writing files on Bileca Rudine,
Bosnia and Hercegovina, and the Bulgarian resistance during World War II; and additional sketches, maps, and photographs from
the Stanford-Yugoslav Trebisnjica Archeological Project. Also included is an audio recording of a 1966 roundtable discussion
on the collapse of Austria-Hungary.
Joint Stanford-Yugoslav Trebisnjica Archeological Project.
United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch.
Vucinich, Wayne S.
Bosnia and Hercegovina --Antiquities.
Photoprints.
World War, 1939-1945--Bulgaria
Yugoslavia--History.
Yugoslavia--Politics and government.
Yugoslavs--California.