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  • Access
  • Use
  • Acquisition Information
  • Preferred Citation
  • Alternative Form Available
  • 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

    Access

    Microfilm use only except Boxes 395-411, 560-561, and map case items. Original cloth samples removed from box 454 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. 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.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    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.

    Alternative Form Available

    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

    1. Ablitsov (Ablitzoff)
    2. Akmidulin, Fachii (Fachy Acmidoulin)
    3. Alekseev (Alexef)
    4. Babin, Aleksei (Alexis Babine)
    5. Borodin, B. G.
    6. Butkovskii (Butkowski)
    7. Chakuntkhakova, Mrs. (Mrs. Tchakounthakoff)
    8. Chernik (Tchernik)
    9. Chicherin (Tchtcherin)
    10. Eiduk, Aleksandr (Alexander Eiduk)
    11. Elmanov (Elmanoff)
    12. Gerstnovich, Lev (Leon Gerstnovich)
    13. Iakunchipov, Olga (Olga Yacountchipoff)
    14. Kamenev, Lev (Leon Kamenev)
    15. Kameneva, Mrs.
    16. Krasin (Krassin)
    17. Kubalerova, Mariia
    18. Lander
    19. Litvinov, Maksim (Maxime Litvinoff)
    20. Nikolaev, Dr. (Dr. Nickelaev)
    21. Popov, Iurii (Georges Poppoff)
    22. Radek
    23. Sabin, Kyra (Kyra Sabine)
    24. Savalev (Savalieff)
    25. Semiashko
    26. Shukov, Z. Z. (Z. Z. Shukoff)
    27. Simonov, Dr. (Dr. Simonoff)
    28. Tregubov, S., Dr. (Dr. S. Tregubow)
    29. Trotsky, Leon
    30. Trotsky, Natalia Sedova (Mrs. Leon Trotsky)
    31. Volodin, A. S. (A. S. Volodjin)
    32. Zhukov (Zhukoff)
    33. Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich (Tovarisch, Zenovieff)
    34. 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