Soviet Union - Politics and government

Date: 1988 - 1989

From: Nisbet, Alistair :Editorial Cartoons ca 1993

Reference: A-290-033

Description: A Russian bear being unzipped down its front. Out steps a smiling baby bear labelled Democracy Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, letratone,

Date: 1977-1980, 1987

By: Weir, James Harrison, 1922-2012

Reference: MSX-3695

Description: An account of author's experiences while serving as ambassador in Moscow. The text contains only minor differences to the book published in 1988.p Quantity: 1 volume(s) (167 pages). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mr Weir, May 1993

Date: 1969 - 1984

By: Waite, Keith, 1927-2014; Daily Mirror (Newspaper)

Reference: B-141-001/032

Description: Original cartoons by Waite that appeared in the Daily Mirror from 1969-1984 commenting on political issues in England. Quantity: 32 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Original ink drawings Provenance: Donation: Mr Keith Waite, England 1993

Date: 1991

From: Winter, Mark :[Editorial cartoons, 1988-1992. Signed Chicane].

Reference: A-295-020

Description: The Soviet Union's name disintegrating Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: A4 size photocopy of ink drawing

Date: 1971 - 1987

By: Gibbard, Leslie, 1945-2010

Reference: B-142-076/128

Description: Cartoons done by Gibbard while in England commenting on political issues of the day, both in England and overseas from 1971-1987. Quantity: 53 photocopy/ies of cartoons. Physical Description: Photocopies of ink drawings various sizes Provenance: Donation: Mr Les Gibbard, London 1993

Date: 1930 - 1927 - 1950 - 1939 - 1938 - 1963

From: [Ephemera, New Zealand and overseas, collected by Arthur Nelson Field. ca 1920-1960]

Reference: Eph-A-FIELD

Description: Includes: New Zealand: Wellington Public Library. Accessions January, February and March 1910. New Zealand Parcel Post. Ticket. Printed 1915, rubber-stamped Takaka, 18 September 1916. Robbialac, for cycles, motor cycles and motor cars. [Distributed by] Teagle Smith & Sons Ltd, Wakefield Street, Wellington [Sample paint card. 1927?] [Invitation card]. You are invited to view recent paintings by Cedric Savage at Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, from November 9th to November 22nd [1940-1950s?] Nelson Institute Library. Book mark [Printed by Stiles 90300 [1940-1950s?] Soviet armed might; warning by U.K. Defence minister. West still a long way form parity. [Newsclipping, Nelson evening mail, 28 July 1951] U.S. aid, military and economic. Programme for 1952; General Marshall's report [Newsclipping, Nelson evening mail, 28 July 1951, page 5] Compliment slip of H J Kelliher [1950s?] England: Consumer Money League & Local Notes Association. National Municipal note issue by order of the Burgesses & Council of Birkenhead. 1.6.1934 [Proposed consumer money bank note] (2 copies) Consumer Money League & Local Notes Association. National Municipal note issue by order of the Burgesses & Council of Manchester. 1.6.1934 [Proposed consumer money bank note] (2 copies) Consumer Money League & Local Notes Association. National Municipal note issue by order of the Burgesses & Council of Birkenhead. 1.6.1934 [Proposed consumer money bank note] (2 copies) Australia: Issued by L.G. De Garis, The Credit Crusade "Sarnia", 266 Latrobe Terrace (PO Box 59) Gellong, Victoria, Australia. Associated with anniversary remembrances, 'Sarnia' date-line. Year 60, day 360 [ca 1960?] Brussels: Aux Editions du Racisme Paneuropeen, Andre Savignon (Prix Goncourt). Dans ma prison de Londres, 1939-1946. Et si les Francais, aussi, avaient su cela! ... [Promotional flyer for Savignon's book, 1963] (8 copies) United States?: Five years of progress, by Franklin D Roosevelt [Pamphlet about the rise in unemployment, 1933-1938] Country of origin unknown: A country without territory [re the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] Quantity: 13 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) (plus duplicates where noted). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to octavo size

Date: 4 Jul 1944-2 Dec 1947, 24 Jul 1948-24 Jul 1949

By: Boswell, Charles Wallace, 1887-1956

Reference: MS-Group-1962

Description: Comprises warrent of appointment appointing Boswell as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and three diaries kept by him while he was representing New Zealand based in Moscow, Jul 1944-Jul 1949. There is a gap in the diary entries for the period Dec 1947-July 1948. The diaries record Boswell's diplomatic and social duties as well as containing comments on international affairs as seen from Moscow and on domestic affairs in the Soviet Union. He was ably assisted by Desmond (Paddy) Costello. Teacher, politician and diplomat. In 1944 he was chosen to head the newly established New Zealand legation in Moscow. Quantity: 3 volume(s). 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts

Date: 1998

By: Wilson, Anthony C, active 1990s

Reference: MS-Papers-6405

Description: Comprises contents listing of reels of the archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State held at Stanford; printouts from the reels; listings of the Hoover Insitution's archives relating to the USSR, New Zealand and Australia; a report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade by Wilson about his visit to the Hoover Institution archives; and a copy of his covering letter to the Turnbull giving background details about the project. Source of title - Supplied Dr Wilson visited the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 1998, as part of his research into New Zealand-USSR relations 1950-1991. The visit was partly funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Quantity: 2 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (some photocopies)

Date: 1945-1949, 1951

From: Dodd, Winsome, fl 1950 : Correspondence

Reference: MS-Papers-8896-5

Description: Letters describe life in the Soviet Union in the immediate post-war period. They relate mainly to Moscow but also include descriptions of Leningrad and trips she made to Finland and England. Boswell warns her correspondent that she must be discrete in what she writes as the Soviet authorities are super-sensitive to any critical comments about their country. The last letter, dated 27 Nov 1951, was written in Auckland and expresses the writer's disappointment at the defeat of the Labour Party in the recent elections. She also expressess concern at the infiltration of the Labour Party by Communists. Jean Boswell accompanied her husband, Charles Boswell, when he served as the first head of the New Zealand Legation in Moscow, 1944-1949 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts

Date: 1988 - 1990

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[Cartoons on topics of defence, politics, social issues, whimsy, medical issues, pollution, conservationists, trade unions, space exploration, animals, police & crime, Television, farming, sport, war, and transport. 1970-1990s].

By: Heath, Eric Walmsley, 1923-; Dominion (Newspaper)

Reference: B-146-053/080

Description: Includes cartoons about: Iraq insists on firing the last shot to end the Gulf war; Thatcher ignoring N.Z. imports to Britain; Nancy Reagan's secret astrologer; relations between USA and USSR; 1988 summit talks; American Independence Day 1988; Reagan's budget 1989, too much on defence not enough on domestic needs; Tower makes public pledge against alcohol; the bamboo curtain; Thatcher plunges in polls; Thatcher and Bush help in Iran while Lange stays behind; Thatcher on the poll tax; Iraq has nuclear bomb; Hussain, the theif of Baghdad; Hussain's supporters create a human sheild; America, Britain and France being attacked by voters; Thatcher still losing in the polls; unlikely to be a happy Christmas in the Middle East; massive changes to USSR in the 20th century; United Nations say yes to Gulf war. Arranged chronologically, according to the dates of "Dominion" clippings in Heath's albums (at E-521/547-q). Those for which no date could be found are arranged according to estimated dates. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed, but almost all undated, by the artist. Quantity: 28 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, sizes approximately 350 x 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1996.

Date: 1927

From: Thomson, John Mansfield, 1926-1999 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5378-316

Description: Articles and talks by Harold Williams, New Zealand journalist and Times correspondent, relating to a talk given about him at the Alexander Turnbull Library, ca 1983-1984 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (13 leaves). Physical Description: Typescripts (copies), printed matter

Date: 7 November 1956

From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]

Reference: C-171-029

Description: Depicts the USSR as a large bear devouring the carcass of Hungary. Quotes Premier of the Soviet Union Marshall Bulganin as saying that they are "full of determination to crush the aggression and re-establish peace in the Middle East through the use of force". Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Bulge and Krush [in pencil]; Recto - bottom right - Minhinnick [in ink] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Felt pen, pencil and crayon on paper, 335 x 510 mm

Date: 1968

From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera

By: Bridge in New Zealand Educational Trust

Reference: Eph-A-ROTH-International

Description: Includes: 1961: Hands off Cuba Committee. 'Cuba - Life or Death? The Facts'. Leaflet. 1968: Co-ordination Committee for the Campaign Against Tourism to Greece in 1968. 'Danger!Dictatorship!' Leaflet. 1974: 'Bridge in New Zealand An Independent Education Trust'. Pamphlet about the trust, set up to provide opportunity for young New Zealanders to work on a kibbutz in Israel and to travel in Europe. 1978: New Zealand Coalition for Trade and Development. 'From March 7 N.Z. will be on trial in Geneva in the case for 'The Common Fund''. Pamphlet. Undated: 'Friends of Palestine Inaugural Meeting'. Flier. 'Amnesty International'. Four-fold pamphlet. 'ANZUS makes NZ a nuclear target. Withdraw now.' Flier (2 copies). 'Demonstrate Against Soviet Repression!" Flier. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Fliers and booklets, sizes varying up to 230 mm.

Date: [1974?]

From: Kennedy, Ronald Edwin, 1925-2003 :[Original cartoons, albums of clippings and a metal printing plate, created by and belonging to Ronald Kennedy (Ronken), ca 1967-1983]

Reference: A-456-056

Description: Cartoon by Ronald Edwin Kennedy depicting a Russian soldier who has a book in one hand with the title "Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipelago" and is grabbing the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn by his coat collar with the other as he says "Comrade - we're going to throw the book at you". Relates to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel published in 1973 which was critical of the Soviet Union and its Gulag forced labour camp system and Solzhenitsyn's expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1974. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink drawing within printed Ronken frame, 210 x 250mm. Printing notes in blue biro.

Date: 1968

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-731

Description: In a single scene, the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia is presented as a chess game. A large hairy arm with iron glove, marked treachery, moves a large chess piece (a Russian tank), aided by machine gun toting pawns, labelled East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, towards a white bishop labelled liberalism. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black and white ink, crayon, letratone and pencil, 293 x 353 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1964

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-133-251

Description: Three vignettes - runners at the Olympics, the leaders of the two main U.K. political parties racing for the final ballot, and Nikita Kruschev of the U.S.S.R. outside a door which says 'under new management'. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Black ink, letratone and pencil 280 x 380 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1964

From: Danilow family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6520-16

Description: Translation by Danilow from the German of a study by Michael de Taube and introduction by George Vernadsky of the possible paternity of Catherine the Great; paper presented at the AULLA congress, Melbourne (1964). Volume with Danilow bookplate. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 16 Feb 1960

From: Danilow family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6520-17

Description: A supplement to issue 5 of the journal dedicated to Danilow's work and includes `The Birth secret of Catherine III' translation presentedsat the AULLA Congress, Melbourne, 1964; and `Interregnum 1825' (an attempt to reconsider the critique of Theodor Schiemann, the later professor of the University of Berlin, referring to the behaviour of the Emperor Nicholas I during the Interregnum 1825), presented at the AULLA congress, Auckland, 1966 Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Gee, Maurice Gough, 1931- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4678-025

Date: [ca 1930s]

From: Gee, Maurice Gough, 1931- : Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4678-026

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).