Memorial Library Special Collections in REECA Studies
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Cossack Collection
- The Cossack Collection is based on the private libraries of Kh. I. and
P. Kh. Popov, and S. G. Svatikov, and is representative of the publications
issued by Cossacks between 1919-1939 in Rostov on the Don, Paris, and Prague.
It consists 147 items, including histories of pre-revolutionary Cossack
life in Russia, and of many publications of Cossack emigres, with particular
emphasis on those who emigrated to Paris and Prague. The collection is housed
in the Department of Special Collections, on the ninth floor of Memorial
Library.
Drawer 376.
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Komadinic Collection
- The Komadinic Collection in Balkan social and political history includes
publications and pamphlets of peasant, socialist an other radical movements
of the last half of the nineteenth century up to World War II. It consists
of some 7,000 items, mostly in Serbo-Croatian, and is based on the private
library of Milan Komadinic (1882-1944), the founder and organizer of the
first zadrugarstvo (a kind of cooperative) in Serbia. The collection
was further developed by Slobodan Komadinic (1912-), the son of Milan Komadinic,
and was subsequently donated to the library. The collection is housed in
the Department of Special Collections, on the ninth floor of Memorial Library.
SC CA 11000- 12831
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Latvian Collection
- The Latvian Collection consists of about 100 items published between 1905-1939.
The collection includes works of literature, and works dealing with politics
and governement. The collection is housed in the Department of Special Collections,
on the ninth floor of Memorial Library.
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Lithuanian Collection (Senn Collections I-II)
- The Lithuanian Collection consists of 132 volumes, mostly in Lithuanian,
from the period of independence, 1920-1940. The collection was developed
by prominent Indo-European languages professor Alfred Senn. Alfred Erich
Senn, the son of Professor Alfred Senn, has added to the collection materials
documenting the independence movement of Lithuania, 1972 to date. The collection
is housed in the Department of Special Collections, on the ninth floor of
Memorial Library.
Drawer 376
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Russian Underground Collection
- The Russian Underground Collection includes materials on the Russian Revolutionary
Movement from 1825-1917, and includes a considerable number of Free Press
publications. The collection contains about 100 journals, many political
tracts, leaflets, broadsides and brochures of various political groups,
socialists, and religious nonconformists (Lev Tolstoy), including first
printings of works by Lenin, Trotsky, and Plehkanov which document the 1905
split of the Russian Social Labor Party. The Underground Collection likewise
contains a large number of satirical journals which appeared between 1905-1907.
The collection is housed in the Department of Special Collections, on the
ninth floor of Memorial Library.
Drawers 375-376.
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