Product Description
Guide To Russian Reference Books Volume I. Compiled by Karol Maichel and edited by John Simon and Gabriel Simmons. Stanford University: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. 1962. 1st (original) edition. 92 pages.
Hardcover, blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. No dust jacket, as issued. College library discard with label on front cover, and expected inserts, stamps, marks, and inscriptions. Overall good. 1 copy only.
In 1919, Herbert Hoover, a wealthy engineer and one of Stanford University's first graduates, founded the Hoover War Collection, which became Hoover War Library (today the Hoover Institution Library and Archives). It includes rare and unpublished material, including the files of the Okhrana and a plurality of government documents produced during the war. By 1926, the Hoover War Library was the largest library in the world devoted to World War I, and was moved to the Hoover Tower in 1941. In 1957, the Hoover Institution and Library was renamed the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, and officially established the Hoover Institution as "an independent institution within the frame of Stanford University". It was about this time that the Chinese and Russian collections grew considerably
