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Recollections
of a Romanian Diplomat, 1918–1969: Diaries and Memoirs of Raoul
V. Bossy. Edited and Translated by G. H. Bossy and M.-A. Bossy.
The half century covered by Raoul Bossy's diaries and memoirs was
one of major upheaval in the world, particularly in Eastern Europe.
A keen and witty observer, Bossy faithfully recorded the reactions
of informed people to the then unfolding international events. His
recollections begin in 1918, when Bossy entered the Romanian diplomatic
service as a lowly attaché and began his climb through the
ranks: cabinet chief of the minister of foreign affairs to political
director of the prime minister's office to secretary-general of the
Romanian regency. By the early 1940s he achieved what was at that
time the most important posting for a Romanian diplomat—envoy
to Berlin. Read
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Strictly
Personal and Confidential! B. A. Bakhmetev and V. A. Maklakov: correspondence,
1919-1951. In 3
volumes. Edited and introduced by Oleg Budnitskii. Foreword by Terence
Emmons. Moskva: ROSSPEN; Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press,
2001-2003.
The collected correspondence in Russian of two prominent representatives
of Russian culture and society who found themselves in emigration
after the October Revolution. Boris Bakhmetev
was Russian Ambassador to the United States and Maklakov his counterpart
in France. Their letters reflect the efforts of Russian diplomats
to protect Russian interests during the Washington conference of 1921-1922;
their efforts to unite the emigration and create a program that could
have formed the basis for the democratic revival of Russia.
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Sotsializatsiia
zemli v Rossii
by L. N. Litoshenko.
A
Russian-language manuscript—written in 1922 by the Soviet economist
Lev Nikolaevich Litoshenko, Sotsializatsiia zemli v Rossii (The
socialization of the land in Russia), and preserved for decades in
the Hoover Archives—has finally been published. The
book is a first-rate study of Bolshevik agrarian policies during the
first five years of Soviet power, with special emphasis on the utopian
civil war policies known as War Communism and the transition to the
mixed-market New Economic Policy in 1921. Read
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Research
Fellow Bertrand Patenaude's new book, The
Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia
in the Famine of 1921(Stanford University Press, 2002), explores
one of the most interesting events in American-Russian relations in
the early twentieth century. The Big Show in Bololand tells the story
of 300 Americans who traveled to Bolshevik Russia during that country's
massive 1921 famine. The book is based on the American participants'
letters, memoirs, and diaries, which are stored in the Hoover Archives.
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New book
based on archival holdings: A
Chronicle of the Civil War in Siberia and Exile in China: The Diaries
of Petr Vasil'evich Vologodskii, 1918-1925.
A prominent Siberian lawyer, regionalist, and chairman of the Council
of Ministers in the major anti-Bolshevik government during the Civil
War in the East, Petr Vasil'evich Vologodskii was an educated and
perceptive observer with a lifelong habit of committing his thoughts
to paper. From May 1918, when he began to keep his diary, until two
months before his death in October 1925, he maintained an unbroken
record of his tumultuous tenure in power and of his despairing years
as a struggling refugee in China. Read
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