Samuel N. Harper Collection of Russian Pamphlets

Samuel Northrup Harper (1882-1943), son of the University’s first president, William Rainey Harper, was a Professor of Russian Language and Institutions at the University of Chicago and the first American-born scholar to devote an academic career to the study of Russia. As such, he played an important role in interpreting the events of the Russian Revolution and early Soviet period to those involved in forming American foreign policy towards Russia. In 1904, he made the first of his 18 trips to Russia, in the course of which he amassed an invaluable collection of pamphlets, which are housed in the Library’s Department of Special Collections. The subjects of these pamphlets cover a wide range of topics, including agricultural workers societies, the army, art, banks, health, collectivization, commerce, communist party activities of all kinds, economic planning, education, foreign affairs, industry, labor legislation, police, religion, women and youth.

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Print Collections:
SCRC, Rare Books Collection

Archival Materials:
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Each pamphlet has a letter/number code associated with each piece. The letter code refers to the subject category the piece has been assigned to and the number refers to the item number for each pamphlet in that subject category.

Digital Materials

Digital Collection of Russian Pamphlets

Library Catalog Record

Collection Specialist

Jane Q. Librarian
Super Fancy Title
Joseph Regenstein Library
Room 000
773-702-1234
email@uchicago.edu

Collection Area

Slavic Collections

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