Just Received in Library: Stolovich Archive
Karen Rondestvedt, Curator for Slavic & East European Collections
Stanford University Libraries have recently acquired from Tartu, Estonia the
archive of Prof. Leonid Stolovich. Stolovich is a retired professor of
philosophy at Tartu University and one of the foremost Soviet scholars in
the field of aesthetics. The
significance of his archive for Stanford, however, goes well
beyond his own prominence. Prof. Lazar Fleishman wrote the following
when we were considering the purchase of this collection:Because he was involved in many [of the] most important events of Soviet and post-Soviet intellectual life in Russia and Estonia – the events that marked the tectonic shifts in the Soviet society – his collection offers truly unique glances into the behind-the-scenes aspects of cultural, political and social history during more than half a century. His papers will be of great interest to students specializing in a variety of fields and subjects: history, philosophy and aesthetics, Soviet literature and culture, Soviet Jewry and anti-Semitism, the struggle of the Baltic countries for independence, history of Soviet censorship.
The library has completed preliminary processing of the collection and is now working on additional processing to make it more accessible.