Vladimir Savel'evič Vojtinskij Papers

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Vladimir Savel'evič Vojtinskij Papers

Period (1889-) 1919-1960 (-1965)
Total size 1 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Full name: Vladimir Savel'evič Vojtinskij (also Woytinsky); born in St. Petersburg 1885, died in Washington 1960; economist, social democrat, initially a Bolshevik; president of the Council of the Unemployed in St. Petersburg 1906-1907; arrested several times and exiled to Siberia, where he became a Menshevik; returned to St. Petersburg in 1917 and became a member of the Executive Council of the Petrograd Soviet; editor of Izvestija; resisted the Bolshevik coup and was arrested; fled to Georgia in 1918; became editor of Bor'ba in Tbilisi; member of the Georgian Mission in Rome and Paris between 1919 and 1921; went to Berlin together with his wife Emma in 1922; from 1923 working on the almanac serial Die Welt in Zahlen , which was published in various volumes 1925-1928 and made Vojtinskij famous; head of the Statistical Department of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund and member of the ADGB board 1929-1933; went to Switzerland 1933, where he worked for the International Labour Office in Geneva and did research on the economic aspects of labour problems until 1935; emigrated with his wife to the USA in 1935; worked as a social scientist for the Central Statistical Board, the Social Security Board , the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Hopkins University, the Twentieth Century Fund and some other institutions; made long travels, giving lectures, to the Far East and Latin America.

Content

Letters received from some 80 correspondents, including Iraklij Tsereteli (c. 100 letters, also typed copies) 1919-1955, Rafail Abramovič 1937-1958, Pavel Aksel'rod 1925-1928, Noj Žordanija 1919-1928, Boris Nikolaevskij 1935-1965, Aleksandr Potresov (also typed copies) 1927-1930, Karl und Luise Kautsky 1923-1940; personal correspondence 1917-1932; correspondence with publishers and various institutions; file relating to the ADGB 1927-1933; manuscripts of published and unpublished articles, his memoirs, etc.; printed copies of articles; bibliography of his works; personal documents of himself, his wife and his parents from 1889 onwards; a few books, pamphlets and periodicals from his library.

Alternate Form of Material

Security microfilms 1977

LIST

Correspondence

1: Correspondence. 1925-1932, 1937-1958, 1960 and n.d. 1 folder.
Abramovič, R.A. (15 letters). 1937-1958.
Adler, E.A. (3 letters). 1928.
Aksel’rod, P.B. (Instruction as to his archive, 2 letters, 2 postcards and 3 obituaries). 1925-1928.
Letters on the publishing of a volume in memory of P.B. Aksel’rod. (21 letters). 1929-1932.
Correspondence on a German edition of Aksel’rod. (32 letters). 1930-1932.
Argunov, V.G. (1 letter). N.d.
Arsenidze, R. (1 letter). 6-7-1960.
Archangel’skaja, L. (10 letters). 1937-1938 and n.d.
Binštok, G.O. (6 letters). 1939-1940.
Blank, D. (1 letter). 23-10-1940.
Boroda, K. (1 letter). 25-3- ?

2: Correspondence. 1925-1945, 1953, 1960-1961. 1 folder.
Viljacer, I.A. (8 letters and 1 postcard). 1929-1945.
Višnjak, M.V. (9 letters and 1 card). 1934-1944 and n.d.
Vol’skij (Valentinov), N.V. (3 letters). 1937, 1960 and 1961.
Vulich, E. (1 letter). 30-10-1936.
Vul’man (Wulman), L. (1 letter). 6-6-1936.
Gvardžalidze, K. (1 letter). 22-5-1930.
Gernet, M. (1 letter). 7-5-1928.
Ginzberg, R.Ja. (5 letters). 1930-1932.
Gol’dman, I.Ja. (1 letter). 27-12-1940.
Gržebin, Z.M. (9 letters). 1925-1928.
Gul’, R.B. (3 letters). 1953.
Gučkov, A.I. (5 letters and 3 postcards). N.d.

3: Correspondence. 1919-1928, 1936, 1940, 1947. 1 folder.
Djubua, A.E. (2 letters). 12-8-1940 and n.d.
Žordanija, N.N. (23 letters and 1 postcard). 1919-1928.
Zvezdič, P. (1 letter). 5-11-1940.
Zenzinov, V.N. (1 letter). 4-8-1947.
Kalašnikov, I.S. (1 letter). 3-11-1936.

4: Letters from A. Kaffi (Caffi). (25 letters and 1 postcard). 1919-1945. 1 folder.

5: Correspondence. 1929, 1935-1965and n.d. 1 folder.
Konovalov, A. (2 letters) . 14-12-1942 and 8-1-1943.
Krol’, M. (1 letter). N.d.
Kuskova, E.A. (3 letters). 23-10-1941, 6-1-1951, and n.d.
Lande, L.S. (1 postcard). 24-11-1929.
Mabo (Mabeau), M. (1 letter on M.O. Anski (?)). 15-8-1941.
Nikolaevskij, B.I. (101 letters and 1 postcard, enclosed 1 letter from A.M. Burgina, 14-3-?). 1935-1965.

6: Correspondence. 1923, 1927-1931, 1934, 1936-1937, 1940-1960 and n.d. 1 folder.
Portugejs, S.O. (3 letters). 23-2-1927, 20-9-1929, and n.d.
Potresov, A.N. (23 letters). 1927-1930.
Potresova, E.N. (1 letter). N.d.
Rabinovič, A.M. (1 letter). 7-5-1934.
Raev, N.A. (2 letters). 20-3-1949 and 28-3-1949.
Ramišvili, N. (1 postcard). 24-5-1923.
Rozental’, L. (2 letters). 24-11-1942 and 9-12-1942.
Rudkovskij, N.G. (1 letter). N.d.
Rusina, A.I. (1 letter). 6-6-?
Sapir, B.M. (2 letters). 21-4-1937 and n.d.
Sosnovskij, G. (3 letters). 26-4-1956 and n.d.
Solovejčik, S. (3 letters). 1927-1940.
Stencel’ (Lenskij), S.S. (5 letters). 1940-1960.
Timošenko, V.P. (1 letter). 20-10-1936.
Ulanov, B.N. (2 letters). 27-11-1958 and 23-12-1958.
Charaš (Georgian). (1 letter). 1-7-1931.

7: Correspondence. 1923-1936, 1937-1939, 1943-1958,1960. 1 folder.
Členov, Doktor E.A. (1 letter). 4-8-1949.
Šapiro, V.L. (2 letters). 17-11-1937 and 29-1-1938.
Šarašidze, D. (5 letters). 1923-1926.
Šargo, S.S. (1 letter). 17-8-1946.
Švarc, S.M. (7 letters). 1943-1958.
Šifrin, A.M. (postcard 14-12-1931, letter 18-4-1939, and letter from Max Wolff 19-5-1939 and reply to him). 1931, 1939.
Štejn(Stein), A.N. (1 letter). 13-6-1943.
Estrin, S.E. (1 letter). 1-11-?
Jasnyj, N.M. (1 letter). 18-6-1960.
N.n. (2 letters). 7-11-1945.

8: Correspondence. 1932-1935, 1938-1939, 1947, 1959, 1967. 1 folder.
Aufhäuser, S. (1 letter). 9-11-1939.
Bendix, Ludwig. (1 letter). 21-9-1938.
Hertz, Paul. (2 letters, 8-11-1935 with reply 29-11-1935, 19-8-1935). 1935.
Laurat, Lucien. (3 letters). 1947.
Macdonald, Dwight . (1 letter). 4-1-1967.
Carlo Roselli (8 letters). 1933-1934 and n.d.
Stampfer, Friedrich. (1 letter). 9-2-1939.
D. Wolfe, Bertram. (1 letter). 14-6-1959.
Vojtinskij, V.S. to Bendix. (1 letter). 21-9-1932.
Correspondence of V.S. Vojtinskij and Paneuropaeische Union (including R.N. Coudenhove-Kalergi). (11 letters and programme of the congress). 1932.
Correspondence of V.S. Vojtinskij and Otto Deutsch. (4 letters). 1932.
Correspondence of V.S. Vojtinskij and W. Pahl. (2 letters and a copy). 1932.
Heymann, Dr. Hans. N.d.

9: Letters from L. and K. Kautsky. 1923-1940, 1945, 1954. 1 folder.
9 letters and 11 postcards. 1923-1925.
7 letters and 12 postcards. 1926.
4 letters and 22 postcards. 1927-1928.
14 letters and 13 postcards. 1929-1931.
9 letters and 16 postcards. 1932-1940.
Letter from Emma Adler 28-6-1945 and letter from Benedikt Kautsky 28-1-1954. 1945, 1954.
Correspondence on the Nobel Peace Prize. (3 letters). 1938.

10: Letters from various institutions. 1 folder.
Sozialdemokratischer Verein, Hamburg.
Union Paneuropéenne.
Bureau d’Etudes Sociale.
Universities in the USA.

11: Personal correspondence V.S. Vojtinskij-E.S. Vojtinskaja. 1917-1918, 1920-1932. 1 folder.
Letters from V.S. Vojtinskij. (31 letters). 1917-1918.
Letters from E.S. Vojtinskaja. (21 letters). 1917-1918.
Letters from V.S. Vojtinskij. (4 letters, 1 pneumatic post letter and two postcards). 1920-1932.

I.G. Tsereteli

12: Correspondence. 1919-1929. 1 folder.
1 letter and 2 postcards. 1919.
5 letters and 1 postcard. 1920.
1 letter and 4 postcards. 1921 and 1923.
4 letters and 2 postcards. 1924.
7 letters and 5 postcards. 1925.
4 letters. 1926.
1 letter. 5-11-1927.
7 letters and 3 postcards. 1928.
10 letters and 2 postcards. 1929.

13: Correspondence. 1930-1955. 1 folder.
20 letters, 2 postcards and 1 card. 1930.
11 letters and 5 postcards. 1931.
4 letters and 1 postcard. 1932.
2 letters and 2 postcards. 1933.
3 letters and 1 postcard. 1935.
5 letters and 1 postcard. 1936.
6 letters. 1937.
5 letters and 1 postcard. 1938.
3 letters. 1939.
Period after World War 2: 7 letters and 1 postcard. 1945-1955.

14: Correspondence concerning the application for an American visa for Tsereteli. 1 folder.

15: Russian text of an article on Aksel’rod. 1 folder.

Contacts and negotiations, agreements, certificates, obituaries

16-17: Contacts and negotiations with various institutions. 2 folders.

18: Contacts and negotiations with publishers, agreements, certificates. 1 folder.

19: Obituaries (clippings from papers). 1 folder.

Manuscripts

20-22

Manuscripts and wooden picture frame. 3 folders.

20: Wooden picture frame.

21: Manuscripts.

22: Manuscripts.

23: '1917 god', 'Gatčinskij pochod' and other manuscripts. 1 folder.

24: Memoirs. Handwritten. 1 folder.

25: Additions to his memoirs, two versions of an article by V.S. Vojtinskij and a speech on a meeting in memory of A.P. Potresov. 1 folder.

26: 'Central prison of Orel'. 1 folder.

Published articles

27-28: Offprints, paper clippings, photostats. 2 folders.

Personal documents of E.S. and V.S. Vojtinskij

29: Bibliography. 1 folder.

30: Personal documents. 1 folder.

31: Photographs and negatives. 1 folder.
NB. Photographs and negatives have been transferred to the Audiovisual Section.

Books and articles from the library of V.S. Vojtinskij.

32: Books and articles from the library of V.S. Vojtinskij. 1 folder.

Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB)

33: Correspondence, typescripts and some documentation in relation to the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB) and its Statistical Department, led by V.S. Vojtinskij from 1929 until 1933. 1927-1933. 1 folder.
NB. Photographs have been transferred to the Audiovisual Section.