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and failures of the Provisional (iovernment of 1917, the foreign
policy of General Denikin's regime in South Russia, 1918-19, the
development of the Soviet political police, and the establishment
of Soviet rule in the C/aucasus region.

The Columbia Archive is especially rich for the study of the
House of Romanov in its last decades, the political and revolution¬
ary movements of the last eighty years, the Russo-Japanese War
of 1904-05 and the World War of 1914-17, and the development
of Russian industry and banking. It has unique materials on the
history of the Civil War in Russia, and on the political life of the
emigration after 1920. It is very rich in the history of Russian
literary and philosophical thought in exile and has important mate¬
rials provided by the newer exiles of World War 11. The Archive
is also the repository of the unpublished memoirs and studies as¬
sembled by the Reseateh Program on the U.S.S.R. (East European
Fund, Inc.), 1951-55, and the Research Program on the History
of the C.P.S.U. (since 1955).

The Archive is under the highly competent and devoted day-to¬
day management of its Curator, Mr. Lev F. Magerovsky, who
also served for many years as Assistant Director of the Russian
.Archive Abroad, in Prague. Professor Michael M. Karpovieh,
emeritus, of Harvard University, serves as chairman of a Sponsor¬
ing Committee, made up of outstanding Russian leaders and think¬
ers, and Philip E. Mosely, Director of the Russian Institute, 1951-
55, is chairman of the Administrative Committee.

Through the constant cooperation of Dr. Richard H. Logsdon,
Director of the Libraries, Mr. Roland Baughman, Head of Special
Collections, and other officers of the Libraries, the .Archi\c has
been equipped with excellent facilities for its work and its adminis¬
trative needs are well taken care of. Apart from these facilities and
services, the Archive's modest budget is provided by Columbia's
Russian Institute, through a generous research grant made by the
Rockefeller Foundation. For the most part its collections have been
donated or deposited by their owners or authors, to whom future
generations of scholars will owe an immense debt of gratitude.