Lidija Osipovna Dan Papers

Period (1917-) 1940-1963
Total size   1.36 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Maiden name: Lidija Osipovna Cederbaum; born in Odessa, Russia 1878, died in New York 1963; Menshevik, sister of Julij Martov (Ju.O. Cederbaum) and after a short marriage to G.S. Kancel', wife of Fedor Dan; involved in revolutionary activities and arrested in 1899; went to Munich in 1901 and worked for the editorial board of Iskra organ of the RS-DRP. After the split in the RS-DRP into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions she was drawn towards the Mensheviks. ; lived in Paris 1905-1911; returned to St. Petersburg and voluntarily joined Fedor Dan in exile in Siberia; returned to European Russia after the February Revolution; opposition to the Bolshevik government led to their expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1922; lived in Berlin and in 1933 in Paris; settled in the USA in 1940; representative of the Menshevik Delegation Abroad to the International Council of Social Democratic Women (ICSDW).

Content

Correspondence, mainly letters received by Lidija Dan, from Rafail Abramovič, Friedrich Adler, Kathia Adler, Angelica Balabanoff, David and Lilija Dalin, Ekaterina D. Kuskova, Boris Nikolaevskij and others; manuscripts (typescripts) by Lidija Dan; notes; addressbooks; documents on anniversaries and on the death of Fedor Dan; personal documents; articles by others; documents on others; press clippings etc. Interuniversity Project on the History of the Menshevik Movement: typescripts of interviews by L. Haimson with Lidija Dan 1960-1962 with index.

Arrangement

Lidija Dan appointed Boris Sapir as a trustee for her literary heritage; he published some of the documents in 'Iz archiva L.O. Dan (From the archives of L.O. Dan)', Amsterdam 1987; the present metrage (1.20 metres) differs from the one given in the 'Guide to the International Archives and Collections' (1989); this is due to packing the documents in boxes rather than in the portfolios used previously; some documents belonging to the papers of F.I. Dan, such as letters to him, have been incorporated into his archive.

Alternate Form of Material

Partly published in: Iz archiva L.O. Dan. Otobral, snabdil primecanijami i ocerkom biografii L.O. Dan Boris Sapir (from the archives of L.O. Dan. Selected, annotated and with an outline of L.O. Dan's biography by Boris Sapir). Amsterdam, 1987.