"As the Clever Hopes Expired"
by Nicholas Siekierski via Hoover Digest
Finland
The collections on Finland contain significant materials on modern Finnish history; several relate to the Russo-Finnish War of 1939–40, especially US fund-raising efforts to provide civilian relief to Finland. Others pertain to Finnish foreign policy and domestic politics in the twentieth century.
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Finnish Relief Fund Records
US relief organization
Harold H. Fisher Papers
US historian; director, Hoover Institution, 1943–52
Malbone W. Graham Papers
US political scientist
Rudolf Holsti Papers
Finnish foreign minister, 1919–22, 1936–38
National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies Records
US relief organization
FINNISH SUBJECT COLLECTION
Miscellaneous materials
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Finland Archival Collections Finland Library Materials
Duignan, Peter, ed. The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1985.
Palm, Charles, and Dale Reed. Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1980.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Images of some of the baseball artifacts found in the archives, ranging from photographs of early baseball games at Stanford University through documents showing the various ways that baseball has surfaced in wartime, humanitarian relief activities in Finland, and politics throughout the twentieth century.