The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social
System Online
Bradley L. Schaffner
Head, Slavic Division
Widener Library, Harvard College Library
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Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
bschaffn@fas.harvard.edu
Hugh K. Truslow
Librarian for the Davis Center Collection
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Collection
Fung Library,
Library CGIS Knafel Building,
Building Concourse Level
Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
truslow@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Project on the Soviet
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Social
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Online
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After the conclusion of WWII researchers from
Harvard University conducted extensive
interviews with refugees from the USSR. The
results of this research serve as a unique source
for the study of Soviet society between 1917
and
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th midmid
id-1940s.
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digitized by Harvard College Library and made
freely accessible via the World Wide Web in an
effort to enhance their value as both a research
tool and instructional resource.
Harvard Project on the Soviet
S i l System
Social
S
Online
O li
The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
(HPSSS) is a collection of 764 transcripted
interviews conducted with refugees from the
USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A
unique source, it boasts vast amounts of one
one--of
of-a-kind
ki d data
d t on political,
liti l economic,
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cultural conditions. The HPSSS was compiled in
English and organized according to a rigorous
social science framework making it accessible to
a broad range
g of students and scholars.
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accessible on the Web at
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http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn--3:hul.eresource:hpsoviet
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn
Additional information can be found at:
“New Life for Interview Project: Online Resource Yields
New Possibilities for 1950s Soviet Refugee Data,” by
Hugh Truslow, in Novosti, the Davis Center newsletter.
Available at
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/publications/Novosti
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Summer_2008.pdf
And
“The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
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Online”
b Margaret E. Hale,
l Richard
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Bradley L. Schaffner; a chapter in the forthcoming book
Digital
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Scholarship,
p, edited byy Marta Mestrovic Deyrup,
y p,
New York : Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-7890-3688-9
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Soviet Social System
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