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Title: Witold S. Sworakowski papers
Date (inclusive): 1868-1977
Collection Number: 79040
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Polish and English
Physical Description:
9 manuscript boxes, 1 slide box, 4 microfilm reels, 1 phonotape reel
(4.5 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Statistics, writings, translations, notes, maps, and printed matter, relating to the ethnography of Upper Silesia in 1910;
Polish boundary questions, 1918-1945; the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; communism in Eastern Europe after World War II;
and the authorship of the 1917 abdication proclamation of Tsar Nicholas II.
Creator:
Paris Peace Conference (Date of meeting or treaty signing: 1919-1920)
Creator:
Sworakowski, Witold S.
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 1979.
[Identification of item], Witold S. Sworakowski Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1903, January 16 | Born, Suceuava (Bukovina), Rumania |
| 1931-33 | Member, Research Institute on Nationality Problems, Warsaw, Poland |
| 1934 | Graduated from Academy of Political Science, Warsaw, Poland |
| 1934-36 | Member, World League of Poles Abroad |
| 1936-1945 | Legation Secretay and Vice Consul with the Polish Foreign Service in Riga, Prague, Kovno, Curitiba, New York and Chicago |
| 1947 | Hoover Institution fellow |
| 1947-1952 | Research associate and curator, Hoover Institution |
| 1952-55 | Assistant professor, Stanford University |
| 1955-1965 | Associate professor, Stanford University |
| 1955-1967 | Assistant Director, Hoover Institution |
| 1965 | Author, The Communist International and Its Front Organizations |
| 1967-1969 | Associate Director, Hoover Institution |
| 1970-79 | Consultant to the Director, Hoover Institution Emeritus professor, Stanford University |
| 1973 | Author, World Communism: A Handbook |
| 1979 | Died, Stanford, California |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Slides (Photography)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
World War, 1914-1918 -- Territorial questions
Russia -- History -- February Revolution, 1917
Communism -- Europe, Eastern
Poland -- Boundaries
Silesia -- Population
Romanov, House of
Nicholas, Emperor of Russia, II, 1868-1918