Register of the Felikss Cielens papers
Finding aid prepared by David Jacobs
Hoover Institution Library and Archives
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Title: Felikss Cielens papers
Date (inclusive): 1913-1960
Collection Number: 66003
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Latvian
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes
(2.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, writings, correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to Latvian foreign relations and political conditions.
Creator:
Cielēns, Fēlikss
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Acquired.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Felikss Cielens papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
1888 |
Born, Latvia |
1905 |
Participates in revolution against Czarist rule |
1906-1909 |
Studies law in St. Petersburg |
1910 |
Emigrates to Paris |
1919 |
Returns to Latvia, and is elected to the Saeima (parliament) as a member of the Latvian Social Democratic Party |
1926-1928 |
Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs |
1933-1934 |
Latvian Minister to France, Spain, and Portugal |
1934-1940 |
Lives in exile in Paris |
1940 |
Returns to Latvia |
1944 |
Flees occupied Latvia to Sweden |
1961-1964 |
Laikmetu maiņā, memoirs, published in three volumes
|
1964 |
Died, Stockholm |
Scope and Content Note
Acquired in 1966, with increments received in 1979 and 1984, the Felikss Cielens papers in the Hoover Institution Library
& Archives comprise a small but comprehensive set of materials relating to the career of an important twentieth-century Latvian
political figure. Nearly all of Cielens's extant writings, both literary and political, are to be found in the collection,
as are documents pertaining to his tenure as Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 1920s.
Like many Latvians, Cielens was swept up in the turbulent events of the 1905 revolution against Czarist rule in the Russian
empire, which then included the Baltic peoples. The failure of the revolution, and the subsequent severe repression by Czarist
forces, drove many activists into exile, including Cielens. Although a Social Democrat and an opponent of the Bolsheviks,
Cielens came into personal contact with many leading personalities of the Russian revolutionary milieu, including Lenin. His
impressions of this time are contained in his memoirs and a lengthy unpublished novel set in the period of the 1917 Russian
Revolution and its aftermath; both works are to be found in the SPEECHES AND WRITINGS series.
A strong advocate of Latvian independence, Cielens rose to prominence in the Social Democratic party in the new Latvia of
the 1920s, and served as the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs at the end of that decade. The FOREIGN MINISTRY FILE series
contains materials relating to Cielens's ministerial activities; there are also press interviews from this time in the INTERVIEWS
AND PRESS CONFERENCES series.
During 1933-1934, Cielens served as Latvian Minister to France. There is unfortunately little record of this period in the
collection. The emergence of the authoritarian Ulmanis regime in Latvia in the mid-1930s, and the loss of Latvian independence
in 1940, effectively ended Cielens's political career within Latvia. Leaving occupied Latvia for Sweden in 1944, Cielens continued
to be active both as a writer and as an émigré spokesman. Immediately upon his arrival in Sweden, he wrote a number of reports
on the situation in occupied Latvia for the American embassy in Stockholm. These form a separate series in the collection.
Cielens's interests included Latvian literature, and he published a number of studies on the subject, including a short work
on Latvian drama that is included among the papers. He wrote prolifically until the end of his life, and the collection assembles
the articles he wrote for Latvian émigré publications, principally in Sweden. The majority of the documents in the collection
are in Latvian, but there are also materials in French, English, Swedish, and Russian.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Latvia -- Politics and government
Latvia -- Foreign relations
Diplomats -- Latvia
France -- Foreign relations -- Latvia
Latvia -- Foreign relations -- France
Statesmen -- Latvia
Biographical File
1963-1966
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence and printed matter, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1, folder 1
Correspondence
1966
Scope and Contents note
Fragment of a letter from Cielens's widow, Maija Cielena, and a descriptive note from Witold Sworakowski
box 1, folder 2
Printed matter
1963
Scope and Contents note
Printed copies of two biographical articles published on the occasion of Cielens's seventy-fifth birthday
Correspondence
1923-1963
Scope and Contents note
Letters and enclosures, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 1, folder 12
International Conference of Social Democratic Parties
1946
Speeches and Writings
1914-1964
Scope and Contents note
Articles, monographs, and unpublished writings, arranged chronologically by title
box 1, folder 20
"Latwijas autonomijas projekta galwenas - tēzes,"
1915
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 21
Vēstures tiesa par muižnīecību
1924
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 22
"Great Britain, the Baltic States and Russia,"
1924 February
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 23
Article on Latvian foreign policy
1927
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 24
"Vozniknet li novaia mirovaia voina iz-za dal'ne-vostochnykh sobytii?"
Segodnia vecherom
1931 December 3
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 25
"Latvijas valdības tēzes atbruņošanās konferencē,"
1932
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 26
"Le trio germano-italo-russe sur les crêtes des Balkans,"
1939
box 1, folder 27
"La tragédie de la Pologne,"
1940
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 28
"The Drama of the North,"
Europe
1940 April
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 29
"La situation en Lettonie et les devoirs actuels du peuple letton,"
1943
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 30
"Statement on the Situation in Latvia and in the Other Baltic States,"
1943
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 31
Appeal by Latvian intellectuals
1944 April
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 32
"Nordens stora drama,"
Svensk Tidskrift, no. 5
1944 May
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 33
"Tyskarna i Balticum,"
Morgon-Tidningen
1944 July 7
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 34
"The Baltic States: Europe Cannot Be Free if the Baltic Peoples Are Enslaved,"
New Leader
1945 April 14
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy of anonymous article to which Cielens contributed
box 1, folder 35
"The Baltic Problem,"
1945 June 28
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 36
Latvia and the Other Baltic States and Their International Case
1946
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 37
"Latvijas starptautiskais stāvoklis,"
Latvju Ziņas, no. 76
1946
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 38
La Lettonie et les autres états baltes dans la politique internationale
1946
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy in French and typescript of Latvian original
box 1, folder 39
Memorandum on Latvian politics
1946
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 40
"Kad Dievs svētīs Latviju?"
Latvju Ziņas
1946 November 16
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 41
"Eine konsentrierte gemeinsame Aktion für die Selbständigkeit der baltischen Staaten,"
1947 January
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 42
"Baltijas valstu starptautiskais stāvoklis un mūsu uzdevumi,"
1947 February 22
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 1, folder 43
"Maskavas konferences neveiksme,"
Latvju Ziņas
1947 May 3
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 44
"Maskavas un Vašingtonas ofensīvas un pretofensīvas,"
Latvju Ziņas
1947 June 18
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 45
Nāves pavēnī
1948
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 46
"Rietumu bloks,"
Latvju Ziņas
1948 January 28
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 1, folder 47
"Par brīvību,"
Latvju Ziņas
1948 February 7
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 1
"Jauni vēji Balkānos,"
Latvju Ziņas
1948 July 3
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 2
"Starptautiskais rakstnieku kongress,"
Latvju Ziņas
1948 June 16
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 3
"Starptautiskais rakstnieku kongress,"
Latvju Ziņas
1948 June 19
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 4
"Ideoloğiskas pārdomas,"
Brīvība, no. 1
1948 August
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 5
"Voldemāru Salno pieminot,"
Latvju Ziņas
1948 August 7
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 6
"The Strategic Importance of Northern Europe in World War III,"
1949 March 12
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 2, folder 7
The Latvian Drama
1950
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 8
"18. Novembra pārdomas,"
Latvju Ziņas
1950 November 16
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 9-11
"The Red Inquisitor General: A Historical Novel,"
circa 1952
box 2, folder 12
"15. maija morāle,"
Latvju Ziņas
1952 March 13
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 13
"Politikas un rakstniecības satuve Francijā,"
Ceļa Zīmes
1952 July
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 14
"Padomju imperijas valdīšana Baltijas jūrā,"
Dzimtenes Balss
1952 September
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 15
"Revolution I faraonernas rike,"
Göteborgs Handels-Och Sjöfarts-Tidning
1952 September 4
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 16
"Nacionālā vienība,"
Latvju Ziņas
1952 September 18
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 17
"ASV prezidenta vēlēsanas,"
Dzimtenes Balss
1952 October
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 18
"ASV pasaules politika,"
Latviešu Almanachs
1953
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 19
"Varas lāsts,"
Ceļa Zīmes, no. 18
1954 March
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 20
"Vēstures tradīciju nozīme,"
Ceļa Zīmes, no. 29
1956
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 21
"Vēstures tradīciju nozīme,"
Ceļa Zīmes, no. 30
1956
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 2, folder 22
"The International Baltic Problem: The European Importance of the Free Baltic Sea,"
Labour's Call
1957 April
Scope and Contents note
Typescript and printed copy
box 2, folder 23
"Latvijas valsts idejas pamatojums,"
1960
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 2, folder 24
"Baltijas valstu savienība,"
1960 January
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 2, folder 25
"Mana divkauja ar Trocki pie Volgas 1918. g. augustā,"
Ceļa Zīmes, no. 39
1961
box 3, folder 2
Brochure announcing publication
Foreign Ministry File
1923-1933
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, memoranda, and reports, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 4, folder 1
General. Circular letters to Latvian envoys
1927
Memoranda written by Cielens
box 4, folder 17
"Le traité de commerce avec l'Union des R.S.S.,"
1927
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 18
"Latvijas ārējā saimnieciskā politika,"
1927 February 11
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 19
"Tirdzniecības līgums ar Grieķiju,"
1927 February 26
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 20
"Latvijas un Igaunijas ārlietu ministru aspriede Tallinā 28. februarī un 1. martā,"
1927 March 2
Scope and Contents note
Typescript fragment
box 4, folder 21
"Negotiations with SSSR [
sic] about the Treaty of Non-Agression [
sic],"
1927 March 10
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 22
"Die internationale Lage der baltischen Staaten und die Aufgaben der Aussenpolitk Lettlands,"
1927 March 28
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 23
"Par saimniecisko līgumu ar Padomju Krieviju,"
1927 August 29
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 24
"Pausales ekonomiskais stāvoklis,"
1927
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 25
"Austrumu nodaļas darbibas pārskats pār 1927 g.,"
1928
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 26
Report on Polish military
1923
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 27
Ozols, K., "10 gadi lielniecisma Krievijā,"
1927 November 7
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
Reports Written By Cielens For the American Embassy in Stockholm
1944-1945
Scope and Contents note
Arranged chronologically by title
box 4, folder 28
"Die Tragödie Finnlands,"
1944 June 16
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 29
"Das grosse Drama des Nordens,"
1944 June 29
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 30
"Die internationale Bedeutung der baltischen Staaten,"
1944 July 12
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 31
"Die gegenwärtige militärische und politische Lage in Lettland,"
1944 August 15
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 32
"Der Kampf der Sowjetgrossmacht um die Vernichtung des unabhängigen polnischen Staates und dessen internationale Bedeutung,"
1944 September 15
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 33
"Der aussenpolitische Drang der russischen Sowjet-Grossmacht,"
1944 October 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 34
"Der Entscheidungskampf zwischen den Russen und den Deutschen um die Herrschaft in der Ostsee,"
1944 October 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 35
"Die politische Bedeutung des Kampfes um Balticum,"
1944 October 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 36
"Der Drang Russlands nach Balkan und Konstantinopel,"
1944 October 14
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 37
"Ist die Sowjetisierung Deutschlands unvermeidlich?"
1944 November 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 38
"Will Moskau seine Japanpolitik ändern?"
1944 November 15
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 39
"Die innenpolitische Lage in Lettland am Ende des vierten Jahres der fremden Okkupation,"
1944 December
Scope and Contents note
typescript
box 4, folder 40
"Was ist das Russland von heute?"
1944 December
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 41
"Die Schrecken und Grausamkeiten des Krieges in Lettland,"
1944 December 1
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 42
"Die Uneinigkeit der alliierten Mächte und der Verstress Russlands in Europa,"
1944 December 14
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 43
"Die russische Politik Polnen gegenüber,"
1944 December 30
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 44
"Die russische Sowjet-Grossmacht,"
1945
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 45
"Nachrichten über Lettland,"
1945 January 15
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 46
"Der Panslavismus und die orthodoxale Kirche im Dienste der Sowjetgrossmacht"
1945 March
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
Interviews and Press Conferences Given By Cielens
1924-1933
Scope and Contents note
Articles and transcripts, arranged chronologically
box 4, folder 47
Jaunākās Ziņas
1924 July 11
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 4, folder 48
Segodnia Vecherom
1926 December 21
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 4, folder 49
Rigasche Rundschau
1926 December 21
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 4, folder 50
Vossische Zeitung
1927
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 51
Segodnia
1927 January 15
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 4, folder 52-54
Press conferences
1927 February
box 4, folder 55
Interview,
Valdības Vēstnesis
1927 February 12
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 4, folder 56-61
Press conferences
1927 March-July
box 4, folder 62
Leipziger neueste Nachrichten
1927 July 8
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 63
Lieutuva
1927 August 4
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 64
Wolff Agency
1927 August 15
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 65
Baltische Presse
1927 August 19
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 4, folder 66-67
Press conferences
1927 August
box 4, folder 68
Interview, Bogholm Agency
1927 August 29
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 69-70
Press conferences
1927 September
box 4, folder 71
Interview,
Izvestia
1927 September 23
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 4, folder 72-80
Press conferences
1927 September-December
box 4, folder 81
Dnia
1933 March 19
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy
box 4, folder 82
Jaunakas Ziņas
1933 March 27
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
Miscellany
1918-1946
Scope and Contents note
Printed fragment and typescripts, arranged chronologically
box 5, folder 1
"Latviesu Pagaidu Nacionālās Padomes Darbības Pārskats no 10. Oktobera lidz 5. Decembrim 1918 gadā,"
1918 December
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 5, folder 2
List of Latvian prime ministers
circa 1940
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 5, folder 3
"The Atlantic Charter: What It Means to the Baltic Peoples," Baltic Committee for Studies and Cooperation
1944 May
Scope and Contents note
Printed copy (incomplete)
box 5, folder 4
"Apkartraksts: Orrtskommandanta rīkojums,"
1944 December 20
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
box 5, folder 5
Excerpt from
Journal officielof speech by Edouard Daladier
1946 July 19
Scope and Contents note
Typescript
Printed Matter
1919-1964
Scope and Contents note
Monographs and serials issues, arranged by physical form and therein chronologically
box 5, folder 6
Protection of Minorities in Latvia, League of Nations
1922
box 5, folder 7
Herbert Schroeder,
Russland und die Ostsee, Riga
1927
box 5, folder 8
Itogi Latviisko-Sovetskogo torgovogo dogovora, Riga
1929
box 5, folder 9
Birger Newman, et al.,
Balticums Rätt, Uppsala
1944
box 5, folder 10
August Rei,
Have the Baltic Countries Voluntarily Renounced Their Freedom? New York
1944
box 5, folder 11
The International Post-War Settlement, Labour Party, London
1944 June 29
box 5, folder 12
Nazi-Soviet Conspiracy and the Baltic States: Diplomatic Documents and Other Evidence, London
1948
box 5, folder 13
Arveds Schwabe,
The Story of Latvia: A Historical Survey, Stockholm
1949
box 5, folder 14
Klāra Kalniņa,
Liesmainie Gadi, Stockholm
1964
box 5, folder 15
Brihwais Latwis, nos. 3 and 4
1919 April 19-26
box 5, folder 16
Segodniia
1929 February 28
box 5, folder 17
Le Temps
1939 September 29
box 5, folder 18
Revue parlementaire
1948 April 15
box 5, folder 19
Astoņpadsmitais Novembris
1944 November 18