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March 2022
Greetings to all of the friends and supporters of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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Many of you know that much of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is housed in Hoover Tower. For 80 years, the Tower has been an iconic part of Stanford University and a beacon for Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet dissidents. On March 11, Hoover Tower became a blue and yellow beacon in support of the people of Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine
We also bring to your attention a new book edited by Bruce Caldwell that presents the transcripts of the founding meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society on its 75th anniversary. Early next month, we hope you will be able to see the re-airing
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of a PBS American Experience Film The Great Famine, which describes the efforts of Herbert Hoover and the American Relief Administration to alleviate famine in the Soviet Union during 1921.
We continue to collect, preserve, describe and make available collections for research and discovery. Newly opened this month are portions of the George Shultz Collection related to his role as the Secretary of Labor director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Wishing good health to you and yours and an end to the war in Ukraine,
-Eric Wakin, Director
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[Poster: Peace Means Progress (original painted artwork), circa 1938–1939. US Poster 8187. Digital Exhibit, To Promote Peace]
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Lighting the Hoover Tower
On Friday, March 11, Stanford’s Hoover Tower was illuminated in the colors of the Ukrainian flag as a show of support for the people of Ukraine. Hoover Director Condoleezza Rice shared in a message to colleagues that the Library & Archives has chronicled, through its collections, the historical struggles for freedom, and “it has long been a beacon for Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet dissidents.“ Her message also included links to the collections on the pursuit of freedom, democracy and human rights. #StandWithUkraine
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Mont Pèlerin 1947: Transcripts of the Founding Meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society
Marking the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, in 1947, this volume (Hoover Institution Press, 2022) presents for the first time the original transcripts from this landmark event, which brought together economists, historians and others to discuss the future of classical liberalism at a time when its prospects seemed grim. Bruce Caldwell, Research Professor of Economics at Duke, biographer of Hayek, and a former distinguished visiting fellow at Hoover, provides an introduction and explanatory notes to the source documents, which are drawn from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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On April 2nd, PBS will re-air The Great Famine, an American Experience documentary based on The Big Show in Bololand (Stanford University Press, 2002) by Research Fellow Bertrand M. Patenaude. The Great Famine is a story of “American engagement with a distant and desperate people – an engagement hailed for its efficiency, grit, and generosity — within the larger story of the Russian Revolution and the roots of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry that would dominate the second half of the 20th century.” The relief campaign in war-torn Europe was championed by Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration (ARA). For his efforts during and after World War I, Hoover became known as “the Great Humanitarian” who helped save millions of lives.
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Viacheslav Ivanov
Viacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov was a world-renowned Russian-born scholar and one of the most influential figures in late Soviet and post-Soviet academe, cultural life, and society. In the 1950’s, which were the early years of his academic career, Ivanov made important discoveries on the origin of the Indo-European languages, which brought him international recognition.
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Newly Open for Research
 We continue to open new series in the George P. Shultz collection, most recently those related to his role as the Secretary of Labor and director of the Office of Management and Budget.
In addition, here are several collections that also opened for research:
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SEEIR 2022
Visiting Fellow, Edward Kasinec was a guest editor of the current issue of Slavic & East European Information Resources, Volume 23, Issue 1-2 (2022). His foreword acknowledges the efforts of Karol Maichel, former Russian Curator and bibliographer (1964-1974) at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, in building and curating print and archival resources at Hoover, Stanford, and Columbia Libraries more broadly. This issue complements the 2020 issue (Vol. 21, Numbers 3-4) which was devoted to the centenary of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives.
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The White Rose
Stanford graduate Jennifer Rosenfeld found inspiration from the Library & Archives to complete her honors thesis in History and Russian Literature on Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak and, also, to create a musical/ concept album about the White Rose, which was a short-lived resistance movement in Nazi Germany that ended with the execution of five university students and their professor in 1943. In the Pasternak Family Papers, she discovered a manuscript of an essay written by Josephine Pasternak in 1953 about the White Rose.
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The Kitaji Bibles
The annotated and illustrated Bibles of Japanese American Salvation Army Captain Masuo Kitaji, acquired in 2018 by Kay Ueda, curator for the Japanese Diaspora Collection, are now on display at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles in their new exhibition Sutra & Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration. The exhibition runs through November! You can also explore the Kitaji Bibles on our digital collections site.
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Fanning the Flames Speaker Upcoming in the Series
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April 12, 2022 (Tuesday) at 12:00 pm PDT | 3:00 pm EDT—Register to Attend by Zoom
“Bushidō” & What Bushi Did: Loyalty, Reputation & Honor in the Samurai Tradition
- Speaker: Karl Friday, professor emeritus, Department of History, University of Georgia
- Moderator: Kaoru Ueda, curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
May 19, 2022 (Thursday) at 12:00 pm PDT | 3:00 pm EDT—Save the Date
- Speaker: Shaoqian Zhang, associate professor, East Asian Art History at Oklahoma State University
- Moderator: Alice Tseng, professor of Japanese Art and Architecture at Boston University
View all past events on fanningtheflames.hoover.org
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April 27, 2022 (Tuesday) at 10:00 am PDT | 6:00 pm BST — Save the Date
Hitler’s American Gamble, with
- Charlie Laderman, Hoover research fellow and senior lecturer in international history at the War Studies Department, King’s College, London
- Brendan Simms, professor of the History of European International Relations Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
- Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard
May 11, 2022 (Wednesday) at 10:00 am PDT | 1:00 pm EDT — Save the Date
States of Liberation, with
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Featuring Our Collections
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The Disputed Legacy of Sidney Hook, features the Sidney Hook collection and includes a foreword by Sidney Hook's son, Ernest B. Hook.
The Hoji Shinbun collection was featured in a number of works and media recently, which include:
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