sources of early Bolshevik periodicals

[Prof Steven P Hill]

Dear Prof Krysl & colleagues,

In the Western Hemisphere, there probably are some easily accessible
libraries with great collections of early Soviet periodicals.  One example
is Stanford University, whose "Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, 
and Peace" (formerly "Hoover LIbrary") has built up a superb collection 
of such rare publications. 

I speak from experience.  I had a part-time job ( "senior page") at the 
"Hoover" when I was an undergrad at Stanford.   I actually handled 
some of that rare material, even delivered a cart full of it to Aleksandr 
Fedorovich Kerenskii in person, when that distinguished gentleman 
occupied a little research cubicle inside the "Hoover."  

The "Hoover" had acquired masses of those rare Soviet periodicals 
during Herbert Hoover's relief mission to help feed the starving USSR, 
appx. 1921-22. I believe the N Y Public Library also has collected rare 
Soviet periodicals, and probably a number of other great US libraries
have collected them, as well.

If you request, I could find & send you the E-Mail address of the 
periodicals librarian at the "Hoover"... 

Good hunting,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:35:36
From: <LISTSERV at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU> 
Subject: Re: GETPOST SEELANGS 
To: Steven Hill <S-HILL4 at UIUC.EDU> 

Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:11:18 -0400
From: simon.krysl at DUKE.EDU 
Subject: Kommunist (Petrograd, 1918) 

Dear friends and colleagues,
I apologize to bother with a query. I have been searching for the Soviet
newsapaper Kommunist, published in Petrograd in March 1918 (red. of Bukharin,
Osinskii and Radek, 11 issues, I believe). The continuation of the paper (4
issues) in Moscow later in 1918 is available and has been reprinted: it seems
that the Petrograd issues are not available in the West. Does anyone of you
know if that means it is only in Russia (and if, where?) or that the newspaper
did not survive at all?
Apologies again and many, many thanks!
Sincerely yours,
Simon Krysl
(Duke University

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