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Frank Alfred Golder
1877–1929
A historian and archivist with a deep interest in Russia, he helped preserve firsthand materials that later became a major resource for scholars at Stanford's Hoover Institution. His work connected travel, research, and document collecting in ways that still shape the study of Russian history.
1 Audiobook
The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement
by Alexander Petrunkevitch, Frank Alfred Golder, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup) Harper, Robert Joseph Kerner
About the author
Born near Odessa in 1877 and brought to the United States as a small child, Frank Alfred Golder grew up to become an American historian known for his work on Russia and Russian-American relations. He studied at Bucknell University and later taught history at what is now Washington State University.
Golder is especially remembered for his role in building the early Slavic and Russian collections of the Hoover War Library, now the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford. In the years after the Russian Revolution, he traveled, collected documents, and worked to gather books, papers, and other records that would be invaluable to later historians.
He also wrote on Russian expansion, Alaska, and major events in modern Russian history. His surviving papers include correspondence, diaries, transcripts, and photographs, showing both the range of his scholarship and his firsthand engagement with a turbulent era.