Found 5 collections related to Soviet Union -- Social conditions

Collection consists of correspondence, memoir, diaries, and memorabilia from Riabouchinsky's years of exile. The "Moscow/London Letters", 1921-1927, are copies of confidential correspondence exchanged between Riabouchinsky, his brother and other emigrés with family members, friends and business associates in Russia. Topics include economic conditions and daily life in the Soviet Union as well as information on the fate of the family and its holdings after the Revolution. The "Letters from Father to Son", 1927-1955, consist of Riabouchinsky's letters to his son Paul who left England in 1927 to settle in the U.S. Memoir chronicles Riabouchinsky's activities between the time of the Revolution and his flight to England, Dec. 1917 to May 1919; diaries cover the years 1919 to 1960 and include photographs, newsclippings and other memorabilia. less

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist, feminist, author, editor, and lecturer on politics, literature and the arts. She was born in Lithuania and died in Canada. Her lectures and publications attracted attention throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was associated with the anarchist journal Mother Earth from 1906 to 1917 and was imprisoned for publicly advocating birth control in 1916 and pacifism in 1917. In 1919 she was deported to Russia but had to leave because of her criticism of the Bolshevik government and was allowed to reenter the U.S. for a lecture tour in 1934. Collection contains correspondence, typescripts, address books, scrapbook, photographs, clippings, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1906-1940, of Goldman, Alexander Berkman and Stella Ballantine concerns Goldman's experiences in Russia, Germany and England following World War I, and Spain during the civil war of 1936-1939; letters, 1927-1928, written on Goldman's behalf soliciting funds to subsidize the writing of her memoirs; and letters, 1917-1927, from Goldman to Bayard Boyesen. Typescripts consist of a few chapters of "My Further Disillusionment in Russia" and other writings by Goldman and typescripts of some of Berkman's writings. Also, address books compiled by Goldman and Berkman; photographs of Goldman; scrapbook, 1909-1936, containing letters relating to the periodical Mother Earth, clippings, leaflets, etc.; clippings and other printed ephemera; and one reel of negative microfilm of Goldman materials in the Institute of Historical Sciences in Holland. less