Special Collections: Guide to the Arnold Thomas Rubenstein Historical Papers

Summary Information:

Collection Title: Arnold Thomas Rubenstein Historical Papers
Collection Number: MS 441
Dates of Collection:  1705 - 1950
Size of Collection: 6 boxes

Administrative Information:

Provenance:  Gift of Mrs. Eva Reich Moise of Hancock Point, Maine - received in 1970.
Access Restrictions: No restrictions
Preferred Citation: Arnold Thomas Rubenstein Historical Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine
Copyright: Contact department for copyright information

For Additional Information:
Special Collections Department
University of Maine
5729 Fogler Library
Orono, Maine 04469-5729
(207) 581 1686

Historical/Biographical Information:
 
Born in Kiev. Obtained degrees from University of Charkov and St. Petersburg. Studied in Austria & Switzerland, worked as a freelance writer in Russia. Worked at the Central State Archive in Moscow, on the Board of Editors of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Professor of History at the University of Moscow, and the State Publishing House in Moscow from 1926 - 1929 worked for the “Kniga” Book Corp., Berlin. From 1933 - 1938 at the Archive for Russia History of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prague (Czechoslovakia). Married Annie Reich, the first wife of Wilhelm Reich. Became an American citizen. Wrote and lectured on Russian and Soviet history.

Contents:
 
The Rubenstein papers contain the manuscripts of his unpublished books: Thousand Years of Russian History, The Potemkin, and book proposals: The Two Russian Revolutions 1905 and 1907, and Russia: What It Was and What It Is. Also included are copied papers that pertain to these manuscripts, notes, and source materials. Some of this material is translated, some is in German, French, and Russian. Some materials on Trotsky are included.

Arrangement:
 
Arranged by subject as Rubenstein arranged them.

 Box List

 

Box 241

 

Box 241 f1	Autobiographical Material
Box 241 f2	European History - notes in German regarding various publications
Box 241 f3	European History - notes in German regarding various publications
Box 241 f4	Communism - articles from various publications
Box 241 f5	Die Auswaertige Politik Russlands IM XIX
Box 241 f6	19th century European history - unpaged notes
Box 241 f7	“Charlie Chaplin” by Robert Florey
Box 241 f8	19th century French history - bibliography
Box 241 f9	19th century French history - notes
Box 241 f10	German propaganda instructions of 1933
Box 241 f11	German radio news bulletins
Box 241 f12	“The International Frontier” by H. Duncan Hall
Box 241 f13	“Zones of the International Frontier” by H. Duncan Hall
Box 241 f14	“Byzanz, Ochrid, and Kiev, 987 - 1037” by Hans Koch
Box 241 f15	“Die Errichtung der Selbsterherschaft Im Moskauschen Staate” by Von Baron Korff
Box 241 f16	Leon Trotsky with wife, son, and dog (photographs)
Box 241 f17	Literatur (in Auswahl) notes
Box 241 f18	The Diplomatic Reminisces of Lord Augustus Loftus
Box 241 f19	Napoleon III:  L’Idee Napoleon - Icenne (1856)
Box 241 f20	Paris Commune, 1871
Box 241 f21	Peter I, the Great - Last Will and Testament
Box 241 f22	Soviet periodical, “Projector” - Oct. 15, 1932
Box 241 f23	Reichsgesestsblatt, part 1, number 122 - Nov. 7, 1935
Box 241 f24	The Russian home radio before the Russo-German war
Box 241 f25	Soviet radio programs, April 1, 1941 -  June 21, 1941
Box 241 f26	“Die Einstehung des Panslavismus” by Karl Stahlin
Box 241 f27	“Die Reform Der Lokalverwaltung Unter Ivan IV” by I.A. Stratonov
Box 241 f28	Photostats of selected items from the Trotsky Archives, Harvard University
Box 241 f29	Trotsky Archives at Harvard University
Box 241 f30	“Das Dardanellen problem als Ruffiche Gehictfalsfrage” by Hans Uebersberger
Box 241 f31	“Patriarch Nikon und Car Aleksei Michailovic” by H. Uebersberger

 

Box 242

 

Box 242 f1	Russian historical documents
Box 242 f2	Russian historical documents
Box 242 f3	Russian historical documents
Box 242 f4	Russian historical documents
Box 242 f5	Russian historical documents
Box 242 f6	Russian historical documents
Box 242 f7	Russian historical documents
Box 242 f8	Russian historical documents
Box 242 f9	Russian historical documents

 

Box 243

 

Box 243 f1	Russian historical documents
Box 243 f2	Russian historical documents
Box 243 f3	Inserts for first chapters
Box 243 f4	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243 f5	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243 f6	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243 f7	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243 f8	Chapter XII rough draft
Box 243 f9	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243 f10	Chapters XIII and IX
Box 243 f11	Chapters XI through XIII
Box 243 f13	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243 f14	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243 f15	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243 f16	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243 f17	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein

 

Box 243a

 

Box 243a f1	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243a f2	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243a f3	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243a f4	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243a f5	Thousand Years of Russian History by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243a f6	“The History of Russia” by Arnold Rubinstein
Box 243a f7	Inserts(English, Russian, and German)
Box 243a f8	Inserts(English, Russian, and German)
Box 243a f9	Inserts(English, Russian, and German)
Box 243a f10	Handwritten manuscript of a Thousand Years of Russian History
Box 243a f11	Handwritten manuscript of a Thousand Years of Russian History

 

Box 244

 

Box 244 f1	Executive Committee of Russian - ca. 1881
Box 244 f2	“Der Capitalismus, fin de Siecle, Wien-Leipzig, 1894” by Dr. Rudolf Meyer
Box 244 f3	“Ausfuerlich Beantwortung”
Box 244 f4	Photocopies of articles written in German
Box 244 f5	Photocopies of article written in German
Box 244 f6	Various selections on works of Russian history
Box 244 f7	Various selections on works of Russian history
Box 244 f8	Various selections on works of Russian history
Box 244 f9	Miscellaneous
Box 244 f10	Corrective Labor Codex
Box 244 f11	The Defensive Treaty of 1700
Box 244 f12	“Die Zwei Russischen Revolutionen, 1905 und 1907”
Box 244 f13	“The Development and Overthrow of the Russian Serf System” by A. D. White
Box 244 f14	“Vertrante Schreiben Eines...”, 1705
Box 244 f15	Selections from the Armed Neutralities of 1780 and 1800 by James Scott
Box 244 f16	“Der Leidensweg von Zensl Muhsam” by Rudolf Rocker
Box 244 f17	SAP, 1945

 

Box 245

 

Box 245 f1	Newspaper clippings, 1937
Box 245 f2	Newspaper clippings, 1946 - 1948
Box 245 f3	Newspaper articles regarding Leon Trotsky
Box 245 f4	Newspaper articles regarding Leon Trotsky
Box 245 f5	German newspaper clippings, 1935 - 1938
Box 245 f6	“Potemkin” by J. Thomas
Box 245 f7	19th Century Russian treaties
Box 245 f8	“Blanqui von Maurice Dommanget”
Box 245 f9	“From Louis Phillippes ... French Republic”
Box 245 f10	Publishers’ catalogs and book lists
Box 245 f11	“Russia: What It Was and What It Is”
Box 245 f12	“Honore Daumier” by J. Tugendhold
Box 245 f13	Notes on Marxism
Box 245 f14	“Expose de la Conduite de da Cour Imperiale de Russie”
Box 245 f15	“The First Forty Years of Intercouse Between England and Russia”
Box 245 f16	“Truth is but Truth, as it is Timed”
Box 245 f17	“Russland und Frankreich”

 

Box 435

 

Box 435 f1	Photographs of Trotsky and Lenin
Box 435 f2	1947 Translation
Box 435 f3	Notes, drafts, etc.
Box 435 f4	Lord Macaulay on Peter I of Russia
Box 435 f5	England and Russia, 1553 - 1593
Box 435 f6	“Die Auswartige Politik des Rullichen Barenthums” by Freidrich Engels
Box 435 f7	Proudhon, Pierre Joseph (1809 - 1865)
Box 435 f8	Bulletins in Russian - Oct. 1929 - May 1941
Box 435 f9	Stepan Halturin (1857 - 1882) by J.M Steklow
Box 435 f10	“Origins of the War of 1870” (in German)
Box 435 f11	Notes(1932)
Box 435 f12	Notes and Miscellaneous
Box 435 f13	Notes on Trotsky, vols. I, II, and III
Box 435 f14	Notes
Box 435 f15	Newspaper clippings from 1938 “Pravda”
Box 435 f16	Two sketches by William Moise
Box 435 f17	Bibliography and notes
Box 435 f18	Bibliographische Ammerkungun
Box 435 f19	“American Reaction to the Emancipation of Russia”
Box 435 f20	American newspapers on the Crimean War
Box 435 f21	Dialectical Materialism
Box 435 f22	Russian history notes

 

Folio

 

The folio contains photocopies of many engravings and maps, particularly Paris

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Special Collections Staff: spc@umit.maine.edu | Revised: 01/17/2013