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Russian peasant, ca. 1915. Photograph from the Samuel N. Harper Papers, Department of Special Collections
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. The collection also contains the publications of a variety of organizations such as the Obshchestvo sblizheniia mezhdu Rossiei i Amerikoi, Soiuz ob”edinennago dvorianstva, Soiuz Russkago naroda, Soiuz uvechnykh voinov, Vremennoe pravitel’stvo, Vserossiiskii krest’ianskii soiuz and the Zemskie sobory. Other pamphlets include material on various contemporary personages such as Bukharin, Kaganovich, Kalinin, Kerenskii, Kropotkin, Lenin, Molotov, Nikolai II, Plekhanov, Rasputin, Stalin, Trotskii, Voroshilov and Zhdanov.
The contents of the Samuel N. Harper Russian Pamphlet Collection are not reflected in either the Library’s Horizon catalog or its General Card Catalog; however, an unpublished subject, author and title guide to the collection is available in the Department of Special Collections, as is a guide to Samuel Harper’s personal archive, consisting of his correspondence, notes, diaries, lectures, articles, reports to the Department of State, and his translations for the Department of State.
Questions concerning the pamphlet collection, Samuel N. Harper’s papers and arrangements to view either should be directed to:
Department of Special Collections
Room 130, Joseph Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-8705