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Appendix C: Partial List of Russian Officials and Citizens Who Worked fro the
A.R.A., Pictured in Personnel and Other Photographs
Historical Note
Scope and Content of Collection
Title: American Relief Administration Russian operational records
Date (inclusive): 1919-1925
Collection Number: 23003
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
557 manuscript boxes, 2 cubic foot boxes, 5 oversize
boxes, 2 oversize folders
(236.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, telegrams,
memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories, financial records, lists, press
summaries, and photographs relating to American relief in the Soviet Union following
the Russian Civil War, and food and public health problems, agriculture, economic
conditions, transportation and communications, and political and social
developments, in the Soviet Union.
Creator:
Hoover, Herbert,
1874-1964
Creator:
United States.
Navy
Creator:
American Relief
Administration
Creator:
American National Red
Cross
Creator:
American Friends
Service Committee
Creator:
Near East Relief
(Organization)
Creator:
United States Grain
Corporation
Creator:
Litvinov, M. M.
(Maksim Maksimovich), 1876-1951
Creator:
Nansen, Fridtjof,
1861-1930
Creator:
Gorky, Maksim,
1868-1936
Creator:
American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee
Creator:
American Mennonite Central
Committee
Creator:
National Lutheran
Council
Creator:
Save the Children Fund
(Great Britain)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library &
Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1923.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], American Relief Administration. Russian operational
records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library &
Archives.
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Also available on microfilm (664 reels).
Appendix C: Partial List of Russian Officials and Citizens Who Worked fro the
A.R.A., Pictured in Personnel and Other Photographs
- Ablitsov (Ablitzoff)
- Akmidulin, Fachii (Fachy Acmidoulin)
- Alekseev (Alexef)
- Babin, Aleksei (Alexis Babine)
- Borodin, B. G.
- Butkovskii (Butkowski)
- Chakuntkhakova, Mrs. (Mrs. Tchakounthakoff)
- Chernik (Tchernik)
- Chicherin (Tchtcherin)
- Eiduk, Aleksandr (Alexander Eiduk)
- Elmanov (Elmanoff)
- Gerstnovich, Lev (Leon Gerstnovich)
- Iakunchipov, Olga (Olga Yacountchipoff)
- Kamenev, Lev (Leon Kamenev)
- Kameneva, Mrs.
- Krasin (Krassin)
- Kubalerova, Mariia
- Lander
- Litvinov, Maksim (Maxime Litvinoff)
- Nikolaev, Dr. (Dr. Nickelaev)
- Popov, Iurii (Georges Poppoff)
- Radek
- Sabin, Kyra (Kyra Sabine)
- Savalev (Savalieff)
- Semiashko
- Shukov, Z. Z. (Z. Z. Shukoff)
- Simonov, Dr. (Dr. Simonoff)
- Tregubov, S., Dr. (Dr. S. Tregubow)
- Trotsky, Leon
- Trotsky, Natalia Sedova (Mrs. Leon Trotsky)
- Volodin, A. S. (A. S. Volodjin)
- Zhukov (Zhukoff)
- Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich (Tovarisch, Zenovieff)
- Zubarev (Zoubareff)
Historical Note
The American Relief Administration was established in February 1919 as the agency
designated by President Woodrow Wilson to administer the relief measures authorized
by the Congressional appropriation of $100,000,000 approved February 25, 1919.
During the period of its activity, 1919-1923, offices of the A.R.A. were established
in New York, Washington, and major cities of Europe, the Near East, and Soviet
Russia. Russian relief was initiated in August 1921 under an agreement with the
Soviet government, and by 1923 district missions were established in the capitals of
most of the provinces of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, the
Ukraine, the Crimea, and the North Caucasus.
In total, the A.R.A. furnished over 90 percent of all relief that went into Russian
between 1921 and 1923. Soviet authorities provided all transportation, warehousing,
buildings, and currency required for payment of Russian staff. Funds equalling some
$60,000,000 were made available by Congressional appropriation, public charity, and
Soviet government gold reserves. Administrative personnel numbered 200 Americans
with about 80,000 Russians under their direction. Between 1921 and 1923, a little
under a million tons of food, seed, clothing, and medical supplies were distributed
in Russia through an organization of 35,000 different stations. During the worst
period nearly 11,000,000 men, women, and children were fed. Medical supplies were
furnished to 15,000 hospitals and institutions, and over 7,000,000 individuals
received inoculations and vaccinations. From seed imported, about 8,000,000 acres of
land were sown.
During the Russian operations principal officers of the A.R.A. included Herbert
Hoover, Chairman; William N. Haskell, Director for Russia; Cyril J. C. Quinn,
Assistant Director for Russia; Henry Beeuwkes, Medical Director for Russia; Vernon
Kellogg, Lincoln Hutchinson, and James P. Goodrich, Special Investigators for
Russia; Frank A. Golder, Special Representative, Russia;Edmund L. Daley and Philip
Mathews, Executive Assistants for Russia; Walter Lyman Brown, Director for Europe;
Christian A. Herter, Assistant Director,Washington Office; James A. Logan, Jr.,
Continental Representative, Paris Office; Philip S. Baldwin, Chief, Poland and
Danzig Office; Randolph C. Wilson,Chief, Hamburg Office; and Arthur C. Ringland,
Chief, Constantinople Office.
A.R.A. operations terminated in Russia on June 15, 1923.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories,
financial records, lists, press summaries, and photographs relating to American
relief in the Soviet Union following the Russian Civil War, and food and public
health problems, agriculture, economic conditions, transportation and
communications, and political and social developments, in the Soviet Union.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- Economic conditions
-- 1917-1945
Prisoners of war
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Civilian
relief
Refugees
International relief
Young Men's Christian
associations
Soviet Union -- History --
Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Refugees
Transportation -- Soviet
Union
Reconstruction (1914-1939) --
Soviet Union
Child welfare -- Soviet
Union
Young Women's Christian
associations