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Series of commentaries which Duranty used in his book I WRITE AS I PLEASE, 1935. His first observations, from ca. 1919, were made while in Riga where he was on assignment from the New York Times. Topics and people include Bolshevism; the American anti-Red scare; Red Cross involvement in the Baltics; the rise of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin; Isadora Duncan; William Bolitho; American relief administration; Maxim Litvinov; and Erich Ludendorff.
A lengthy section describes how Duranty lost a leg in a train accident in Paris and then his personal reflections on Russia.

Drafts and notes for the book by Olga Gankin, The Bolsheviks and the World War : The Origin of the Third International. Relates to Russian political events and the Russian Army during World War I, Bulgarian political events during World War I, and the Communist International.

Relates to the influence of anarchist and Marxist theories on the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, and on revolutionary movements throughout the world.

Correspondence, writings, and memoranda, relating to personal experiences and to international socialist and communist movements.

Memoirs and other writings, relating to the Russian military operations in World War I and the Russian Revolution, subsequent anti-communist movements in the Soviet Union (including biographies of participants), Soviet agents in Egypt and police surveillance and prosecution of them, and Russian émigré affairs. In part, also available on microfilm (1 reel).

Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, memoirs, minutes of meetings, conference proceedings, leaflets, resolutions, bulletins, reports, clippings, newspapers, other printed matter, sound recordings, and photographs, relating to Karl Marx and the international socialist movement; the First, Second, Third and Fourth Intenationals; Russian revolutionary, anarchist and socialist movements, especially the Rossiĭskai͡a sot͡sial-demokraticheskai͡a rabochai͡a partii͡a (RSDRP) and its Menshevik wing; the Partii͡a sot͡sialistov-revoli͡ut͡sionerov (PSR); the Russian Revolution and Civil War; Russian politics and government in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; communism in the Soviet Union; Russian émigré politics; the Vlasov movement during World War II; and Russian displaced persons after World War II. Includes records of the RSDRP, the PSR, and other organizations; and papers of Rafail Abramovich, Pavel Aksel'rod, Viktor Chernov, Leon Trotsky, Irakliĭ T͡Sereteli, and many others. Also includes papers of B. I. Nicolaevsky. Also available on microfilm (796 reels). Sound use copies of sound recordings available.

Relates to socialist activities in the Balkans, and to the Russian Revolution.

Writings, letters, passports, certificates, and photographs, relating to the Russian Civil War, the nature of communism, and the imprisonment of G. K. Siminskiĭ by French authorities in 1945 as a suspected German collaborator.