Acquisition Date: 1955
Provenance: Purchase from the owner Boris Ivanovich Nicolaevsky (1887-1966)
Size: ca. 10,000-12,000 titles
Content: Periodicals, pamphlets, and monographs pertinent to the revolutionary movement of Russia and the West. At the time of its acquisition, it was noted that the pamphlets related to the revolutionary movement were particularly valuable for research.
Related Publications:
Lindberg, Philip Gordon. The Second International : holdings of the Nikolaevskii collection housed in the Lilly Library. Bloomington, IN: n.p., 1960. 30 p.
Epstein, Fritz T. "The Nicolaevsky Collection at Indiana,” Library News Letter 1, no.4, (April, 1966): 1.
Acquisition Date: 2012
Donor: The Macedonian Embassy in Washington, DC
Size: 124 volumes
Content: English translations of Macedonian literary works
Search:in IUCAT
Author search: "Translation Project Macedonian Literature in English"
Keyword anywhere search: "Macedonian literature project"
For more information, "Macedonia's Literary Gems Get Lost in Translation"
Acquisition Date: ??
Donor: Professor David Ransel (IU History, 1985-2014)
Quantity: 92 interview transcripts
Dates: 1981-1990
Content: "interviews with Russian and Tatarian mothers of three different generations" (for more details refer to the guide to the collection "A Guide to the Collection of Oral History Interviews at Indiana University Bloomington"
Search: not in IUCAT. Instead, the collection is described, in a structured manner, in the aforementioned collection guide.
Other information: Professor David Ransel used these interviews for his book Village mothers: three generations of change in Russia and Tataria (2000, IU Press).