American Collections on Immigrants and Émigrés from the Russian Empire

SUMMARY The article describes materials on Russian immigrants and immigrant communities in several American collections: the Library of Congress; the University of Chicago; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Hoover Presidential Library in Iowa; and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It includes an analysis of immigrations from Russia, relations among various groups, and their influence upon American scholarship on Russia, particularly in regard to American relief efforts in the 1920s. It also examines the records of non-Russian immigrant groups–Mennonites from Ukraine, Germans from the Volga and Black Sea regions, and others. It includes descriptions of archival collections and an account of the contributions of these groups to the economic and social development of the North American Great Plains region.