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.