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Record Unit 567

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies

Records, 1978-1984
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
Title: Records
Dates: 1978-1984
Quantity: 6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes)
Collection: Record Unit 567
Language of Materials: English
Summary:

This collection consists of records that document the administrative and program activities of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies under Abbott Gleason and John Glad. They include some budget material, files of ongoing projects, correspondence, and files on events such as conferences and dialogues.

Historical Note

The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (KIARS) was founded in 1974 as a division of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Through its fellowship program and special projects, the Institute helps to promote advanced research on Russia and the U.S.S.R. by scholars and qualified persons from government, industry, and the press. It is directed by an academic council which was established in 1975 under the chairmanship of George F. Kennan, former United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union. In 1975 S. Frederick Starr was appointed Secretary of the Institute and remained in the post until 1980. Abbott Gleason became the new Secretary at that time. Abbott Gleason served as Secretary of the Kennan Institute until 1982 when John Glad assumed the position. Glad was succeeded the following year by Herbert J. Ellison, who served 1983- .

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Descriptive Entry

This collection consists of records that document the administrative and program activities of the Kennan Institute under Abbott Gleason and John Glad. They include some budget material, files of ongoing projects, correspondence, and files on events such as conferences and dialogues.

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This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.

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Preferred Citation

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 567, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Records

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Container List

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Gross, Jan Tomasz - October 1981 (rejected?)

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A - FY 1983

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B - FY 1983

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C - FY 1983

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D - FY 1983

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E - FY 1983

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X, Y, Z - FY 1983

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A - To October 1, 1981

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A - To October 1, 1982; FY 1982

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B - To October 1, 1981

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B - To October 1, 1982; FY 1982

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C - To October 1, 1981

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C - To October 1, 1982; FY 1982

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D - To October 1, 1981

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E - To October 1, 1981

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M - To October 1, 1981

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Q, R - To October 1, 1981

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Q, R - FY 1982

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S - To October 1, 1981

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T - To October 1, 1981

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W - To October 1, 1981

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X, Y, Z - To October 1, 1981

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X, Y, Z - FY 1982

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Lang, Kurt; Correspondence - December 1982

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Film Festival

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9/29/1982, Noon Discussion, Brzezinski, Zbigniew

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Correspondence from Linden, Ronald H. to Josephson, Paul R.; April 21, 1982 (Fisher/Linden September 16, 1982)

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Ovcharenko, Alexander - October 16, 1981

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Aksyonov, Vassily Colloquium Paper; June 24, 1982

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Holzman, Frank Colloquium Paper; June 22, 1982

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May 14 Reception

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Evening Dialogue; Kennan, Smith; May 14, 1982

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May 12 Reception - Regents Room

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Sodaro, Michael J. - Soviet Studies of the Western Alliance - May 6, 1982

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Abbot Gleason correspondence; Pozanski Colloquium (Cancelled)

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Goodman, Seymour

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Wortman, Richard - Seminar, April 27, 1982 "Dethroning of Peter the Great"

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Mlynar, Zdenek - April 2, 1982

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Ilya Filanovsky

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Miyamoto, Katsuhiro

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Reception, February 27, 1982

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Thane Gustafson, December 17, 1981

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Censorship Conference

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Censorship Papers

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Censorship (Travel, Contract, etc.)

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Academic Council - General

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Academic Council Meeting, August 25, 1980, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton

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2nd Princeton Conference George Kennan - Institution. Advanced Study; Princeton, New Jersey; August 27-28, 1980

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Kennan, August Big Meeting 1980

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Tom Gleason - Special Studies #5

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Lunch January 21, 1983; Bellington, Glad, Kennan, Blitzer, Ripley; Kennan Institute events for May 1983.

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Arcadius Kahan Memorial session

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1985 World Congress AAASS

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Central Asia travel March 10-11, 1983

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Censorship

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Conference on the Study of Central Asia; March 10-11, 1983.

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Box 3

Central Asian Conference (CAC) Planning Session; July 23, 1983

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CAC Agreements, Releases

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CAC honora

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Central Asia Conference correspondence

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Conference on Soviet Direction of Creative and Intellectual Activity

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Evening Dialogue, May 6, 1983 - Sinyavsky

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History of Medicine & Public Health in the Soviet Union (late - 1981 or early - 1982)

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Political Science Conference - Spring 1982 (Dan Nelson)

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Walter Reich Colloquium - June 20, 1983

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Quartet February 12, 1983 (canceled)

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Seminar - Barbara A. Anderson/Brian D. Silver; April 7, 1983

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Colloquium Paper by Allan K. Wildman

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Colloquium Paper by Sheila Fitzpatrick; February 18, 1983

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Tables/Charts on Family Size

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Scanlan Colloquium

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Vera Dunham Festschrift Conference

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August 2, 1983 Dinner Discussion with Congressional Delegation to Supreme Soviet

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Travel Vouchers for Robert Tucker - June 9, 1983

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Rockefeller Foundation - Young Sovietologists Foundation

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June 1981 - The Polish Unheaval (Abe Brumberg) Conference

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Seminar LC Resources; April 28, 1983

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Soviet Census Conference, May 27

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Evening Dialogue "Soviet Union today" June 15, 1983

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Zimmerman Colloquium, December 7, 1981

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Ioffe, O. S.

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1981 December Fellowship Competition Evaluation

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Academic Council Meeting, December 4-5, 1981

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Fellowship Process 1981

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Colloquium by Swietochowski, Tadeusz; October 28, 1981

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ICA Conference Papers

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ICA Conference - October 22

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Evening Dialogue - Orionova

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Origins of Soviet Culture Funding Proposals

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Meeting on the Polish Debt; September 15, 1981

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Working Group on Soviet Science; July 23, 1981

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Correspondence - Conference on "Origins of Soviet Culture"

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Poznanski's talk - May 12

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May 8th ICA - Steve Grant, Greg Guroff

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Vladimir Voinovitch Lecture; May 7, 1981

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"Myth & Authority in early Soviet Culture" by Robert C. Williams

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"Lenin's Bolshevism as a Culture in the Making" by Robert C. Tucker

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Box 4

"Iconoclastic Currents in the Russian Revolution: Destroying & Preserving the Past" by Richard Stites

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"Iconoclasm & Cultural Revolution in China" by Maurice Meisner

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"Origins of Soviet Society..." by Sidney Monas

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Kopp, Anatole

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"Artists as Bureaucrats" by Dr. Christina Lodder

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"Lenin and the Freedom of the Press" by Peter Kenz

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"The Civil War as a Formative Experience" by Sheila Fitzpatrick

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"Village Women experience the Revolution" by Beatrice Farnsworth & correspondence

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General material/Information Soviet Culture Conference .

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Medieval Russian Conference September 10-15, 1981 (Gustaf Alef & KIARS)

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Economic/Political Dimensions of Soviet R&D (April 30, 1981) Seminar 4-6 p.m.

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Reception of Soviet Delegation of Historians for AHA Meeting - KIARS, April 22, 1981

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Propagandist & Peasant: A New Look at the Mad Summer of 1874

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April 15, 1981 - How Large is the Soviet Military Budget?

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Soviet Agriculture Conference, April 12-14, 1981 (Bob Stuart)

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Vsevolod Ivanovich Naulko, April 7, 1981

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"Russia & Her Southern Neighbors" by David Nalle - March 11, 1981

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March 3, 1981 Workshop on Soviet Labor Management & Industrial Productivity (Blair Ruble)

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Briefing for the Press: The USSR on the Eve of the XXVI Party Congress; February 6-7, 1981

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December 18, 1980 - Soviet Science & Technology Seminar

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December 12, 1980 Luncheon - USSR Delegation

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December 4, 1980 - US National Interest Meeting

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US/USSR Writers' Conference - 1980

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Wilczynski, Jozef March 1, 1980 (1 week October-November 1980)

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Russian Avant-Garde Exhibit, SI Resident Associates & KIARS (?), November 1980

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Soviet Economic Policy Alternatives in 80s, November 5, 1980. KIARS & US Department of State

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Program - "Cuba's New System of Economic Management" - October 28, 1980

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September 22, 1980 - Recent Emigre Studies on Soviet R&D

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August 18, 1980 - Luncheon Soviet Labor Delegation (traveling in US Under Auspices of ACLS)

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Film Showing - The Color of Pomegranates August 1, 1980, National Archives Theater Introduced by Herbert Marshall

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July 29, 1980 Vojtech Mastny

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June 6, 1980 - Reception for Delegates to Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies 7th Conference

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May 8, 1980 Willis Conover Musical Event

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Impact of Military Institutions on Soviet Society (KIARS & State Department) February 11, 1980

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Mailing Addresses (Labels)

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State University of New York (SUNY) Conference - Transcaucasia

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Transcaucasia - Spring 1980, RON SUNY - April 24-25, 1980

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Seminar: April 21, 1980 "How the Soviet Union is Governed Jerry Hough, Bill Zimmerman, David Jarovsky"

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Implications of Soviet National Resources for the World Economy Bob Jensen - Syracuse University, October 1979, April 4-5, 1980

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Cassette Tapes: USSR Economics - November 3, 1980; Reel Tape: The Military Institutions on Soviet Society - February 11, 1980

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Conference on Soviet National Resources in the World Economy; April 4-5, 1980

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Box 5

Second Economy of The USSR, January 23-26, 1980, Gregory Grossman

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Memoranda & News clippings of the State of the Soviet Union

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January 6, 1981 - Soviet Delegation (traveling under auspices of American Friends Service Committee, Inc.)

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Russian American Conference - 1979, "The Book" Correspondence

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"Science & Education in Russian America" (by E. A. Okladnikova)

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"Relations Between the Tsarist Government & the Russian-American Company, 1857-1867

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Russia's American Colony - Photographs for the Alaska Paper

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Original handwritten notes in Russian by K. Gokuagy (?) September 20, 1973

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Russian-America Conference 1979 thank-you letters

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"Russian America & International Relations" (18th century and the first 1/3 of the 19th century) by N. N. Bolkhovitinov

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Liapunora, R. G. "Relations with the Natives of Russian America"

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Gibson, James R. "Russian Dependence upon the Natives of Alaska"

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Shalkop, Antoinette "The Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska"

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Russian-America Conference - 1979, General Correspondence (held at Sitka, Alaska)

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Sitka Journals and Papers

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Russian-America Conference 1979 Invitations

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Russian-America Conference 1979 Program and Funding

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Russian-America Conference 1979 Itineraries and Budgets

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Russian-America Conference 1979 Local Arrangements

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Petty Cash/Tax Exemption Regulations

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KIARS Budget - 1983-1985

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Miscellaneous Paid Receipts - 1983-1984

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Invoices, Vouchers, & Receipts

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72850000 - George F. Kennan Fund

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72670300 - U.S. Department of State Study of Central Asia

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72670200 - U.S. Department of State Soviet Censorship

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72753300 - U.S.I.A. Conference on Soviet Union

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72589300 - Central Asia Ford Foundation (grant report)

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Conference on Russian Language - September 18, 1981

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72845900 - General Fund

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Box 6

Monthly Reports by Fund, October 1982-June 1983

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Oskar Gruenwald Conference

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USSR-USA Archival Exchange Project

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Archive Material in U. S. Doctorow/Grimsted/Shaw

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Russians Archives in Germany - Roosevelt & Clendenning

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Kuklinski, Antoni - UNRISD/Mouton Regional series December 1981

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NEH Application (Starr)

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Central Asia Conference - correspondence

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Miscellaneous Financial Records #1

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Miscellaneous Financial Records #2

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