Memorial Library Special Collections in REECA Studies
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Cossack Collection
- The Cossack Collection is
based on the private libraries of Khariton Ivanovich Popov, Petr Kharitonovich Popov, and Sergeĭ Grigorʹevich Svatikov,
and is representative of the publications issued by Cossacks between 1919-1939 in Rostov on the Don, Paris, and Prague.
It consists 154 items, including histories of pre-revolutionary Cossack life in Russia,
and of many publications of Cossack emigres, with particular emphasis on those who emigrated to Paris and Prague.
The collection is divided into five parts (A-E): A, Don Cossacks, History to 1917 (49 titles)
-- B, Don Cossacks and Communism (34 titles) -- C, Don Cossacks intellectual life (15 titles)
-- D, Periodicals (45 titles) -- E, Miscellaneous (11 titles).
The collection is housed in the Department of Special Collections, on the ninth floor of Memorial Library.
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Komadinić Collection
- The Komadinić Collection in
Balkan social and political history includes publications and pamphlets of peasant, socialist and
other radical movements of the last half of the nineteenth century up to World War II.
It consists of some 7,000 items, mostly in Serbo-Croatian, and is based on the private
library of Milan Komadinić (1882-1944), the founder and organizer of the
first zadrugarstvo (a kind of cooperative) in Serbia. The collection
was further developed by Slobodan Komadinić (1912-1979), the son of Milan Komadinić,
and was subsequently purchased by the UW-Madison library. The collection is housed in
the Department of Special Collections, on the ninth floor of Memorial Library.
SC CA 11000- 12831
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Latvian Collection
- The Latvian Collection consists of over 100 items published between 1905-1939.
The collection includes works of literature, and works dealing with politics
and governement. The collection is housed in the Department of Special Collections,
on the ninth floor of Memorial Library.
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Lithuanian Collection (Senn Collections I-II)
- The Lithuanian Collection consists of 132 volumes, mostly in Lithuanian,
from the period of independence, 1920-1940. The collection was developed
by prominent Indo-European languages professor Alfred Senn (1899-1978). Alfred Erich
Senn (1932-2016), the son of Professor Alfred Senn, added to the collection materials
documenting the independence movement of Lithuania. The collection
is housed in the Department of Special Collections, on the ninth floor of
Memorial Library.
Drawer 376
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Russian Underground Collection
- The Russian Underground Collection includes materials on the Russian Revolutionary
Movement from 1825-1917, and includes a considerable number of Free Press
publications. The collection contains about 100 journals, many political
tracts, leaflets, broadsides and brochures of various political groups,
socialists, and religious nonconformists (Lev Tolstoy), including first
printings of works by Lenin, Trotsky, and Plehkanov which document the 1905
split of the Russian Social Labor Party. The Underground Collection likewise
contains a large number of satirical journals which appeared between 1905-1907.
The collection is housed in the Department of Special Collections, on the
ninth floor of Memorial Library.
Drawers 375-376.
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Russo-Japanese War (Japan in Conflict) Collection
- The Department of Special Collections holds many items related to the Russo-Japanese War.
These are part of a larger collection called "Japan in Conflict".
In addition to the physical materials held in Special Collections,
a subset of the "Japan in Conflict" collection has been digitized.
This digital collection contains about 60 original Russian placards about the war, artistic representations of Russo-Japanese battles and leaders
as well as monographs such as the "Album de la guerre russo-japonaise = روسیه و ژاپنیا محاربه سی سینه عاید رسمی مجموعه سی ".
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