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306:, headed a team which traveled across Europe to acquire materials. A massive number of books, pamphlets, documents, and posters were acquired, crated, and shipped back to California on behalf of the project. By 1923 more than 40,000 items had been obtained for the collection. The documents were initially housed within the main Stanford Library, but by 1929 the collection had reached 1.4 million items and space was becoming a problem. In 1941 294: 1351: 47: 252:
I did a vast amount of reading, mostly on previous wars, revolutions, and peace-makings of Europe and especially the political and economic aftermaths. At one time I set up some research at London, Paris, and Berlin into previous famines in Europe to see if there had developed any ideas on handling
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The archive is a valuable resource for the following subjects related to Russia: the rise of political parties, Imperial Russian diplomatic archives, the revolutionary movement, Asiatic Russia and its colonization, the "Okhrana", the Russo-Japanese War, and Russia's participation in World War I.
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Andrew D. White donated his vast collection of ephemera from the French Revolution to Cornell University in 1891. A full account of the founding of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives is provided by George H. Nash in "Herbert Hoover and Stanford University," published by the Hoover
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Starting in 1919, Hoover donated the collected materials to Stanford, his alma mater, along with funds to maintain and develop the documents. The collection was called the Hoover War Collection and later the Hoover War Library. In August 1920 the first permanent curator of the collection,
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was lost to history because no one set any value on it at the time, and that without such material it became very difficult or impossible to reconstruct the real scene. Therein lay the origins of the Library on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford
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Hoover also later recounted that he was further driven in the task of systematic archiving by his own wartime research as food administrator. In the first volume his memoirs, published in 1951, Hoover wrote:
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Staff members in subsequent decades have continued to expand the collection systematically. The current holdings include 6,000 separate collections that encompass an estimated 50 million original documents.
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Other special collections include the Hoover Institution/Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG)/Russian State Archival Service Cataloging Project and the Soviet Communist Party Archives Microfilming Project.
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relief and pestilence. ... I was shortly convinced that gigantic famine would follow the present war. The steady degeneration of agriculture was obvious. ... I read in one of
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episodes were contributed to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting via external links from The Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University.
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diaries and the opening of the diaries for study has contributed to a surge in academic publishing China's Nationalist period.
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Archival and Manuscript Material at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace: A Checklist of Major Collections.
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as a mechanism for the supply of food aid to the hungry people of post-war Europe. Herbert Hoover was tapped by President
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erupted, Hoover found himself in Europe, quickly becoming involved in ongoing efforts to provide relief aid to wartime
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to head this agency, and the records of this great enterprise were also incorporated into Hoover's archival holdings.
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Peter Duignan, "The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace: Part 1: Origin and Growth,"
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James McJ. Robertson, "The Hoover Institution Collection on the German Working Class Movement 1870/71-1933,"
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George H. Nash, "Herbert Hoover and Stanford University." Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1988.
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George H. Nash, "The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1912-1917." New York: Norton, 1988.
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was completed as a repository for the growing collection, which was eventually named the
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The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace: Seventy-five Years of its History.
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This article is about the research library. For the public policy think tank, see
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Guide to the Boris I. Nicolaevsky Collection in the Hoover Institution Archives.
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The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War
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War, Revolution, and Peace in Russia: The Passages of Frank Golder, 1914–1927
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Foreword by W. Glenn Campbell. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1989.
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As of July 2013, the director of the library and archives is Eric Wakin.
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Rita R. Campbell, "Machine Retrieval in the Herbert Hoover Archives,"
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Emmons, Terence; Patenaude, Bertrand M., eds. (1992). "Introduction".
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A Wealth of Ideas: Revelations from the Hoover Institution Archives.
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vol. 17, no. 1 (2001), pp. 3–19. "Part 2: the Campbell Years,"
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Digitized audiovisual recordings and transcripts of more than 1,500
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writings that most of the fugitive literature of comment during the
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The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.
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Collection Survey No. 1. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1974.
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In February 1919, Congress established a new agency known as the
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The reading room at the Hoover Institution Archives in June 2011
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Research center and archival repository at Stanford University
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Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times
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The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure, 1874–1920
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Hoover Institution Library and Archive
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