Samuel Northrup Harper

From The Memoirs of  SAMUEL N. HARPER - 1902 - 1941

George Creel, director of the United States Bureau of Public Information, was attempting to bring about some integration in the field of propaganda ; and I found myself working with this new unit, to which many university men had been officially recruited. Creel had sent Edward Sisson to Russia in the early autumn of 1917, before the Bolshevik seizure of power, to represent the Bureau and to organize there an outlet for his American propaganda. At Petrograd, and later in Moscow, Sisson joined those who decided that no trust could be placed in the Bolsheviks as rulers. He had secured, in co-operation with the British Intelligence Service, certain documents which tended to prove a close relationship between the Bolshevik leaders and the German general staff in connection with the famous passage across Germany of Lenin and other leaders in a sealed car.

Returning to Washington, Sisson prepared a long pamphlet in which facsimiles of these documents appeared, with his interpretation of them. In October, 1918, on the eve of publication of this pamphlet by the Bureau of Public Information, Creel was urged to check up on the materials, and I was called to Washington to be one of the small committee of the American Historical Association to do this job. The test for documentary authenticity applied by historians were about the only check which could be made under the circumstances. Professor J. Franklin Jameson was the chairman of the group, and Professor Archibald Coolidge was also named as a member but did not formally participate in the work. In the end, Professor Jameson and I were the only signers of the statement added to the published pamphlet.

Professor Jameson and I had access to the original documents when Sisson had such. These we subjected to the tests used by students of history, relating them to the known facts of the moment. With respect to those documents which we had in the original, we expressed the view that, as students of history, we would accept them. We refused to express an opinion on those documents for which only translations had been obtained. We found that certain inconsistencies appearing on the face of the documents, which were pointed out by those disputing authenticity, were unfounded, arising because of erroneous early translations, or misconceptions of the differences of dates under the Russian calendar.

We flatly refused to comment on Sisson�s conclusions as to what the documents proved, namely, that Lenin not only had had contacts with the German general staff when he journeyed across Germany but had been and still was a German agent. Jameson and I were ready to state that in the given circumstances, by starting a social revolution in Russia, Lenin was objectively aiding the enemy from a military point of view. We were told that such a statement would not help to promote that emotional upsurge necessary for the mobilization of all our resources to be thrown into the struggle. We stood our ground, however, as our statement on the pamphlet will show. But the general view current at this time was that we had declared all the documents genuine beyond any question. In addition, Sisson�s conclusions as to what the documents showed were also laid upon our shoulders. This last phase gave me much concern at the time. With his country at war, the academic man, when called upon by his government to use his academic talents for a war purpose, often faces a problem of duty in two directions and finds difficulty in properly protecting himself.

THE RUSSIA I BELIEVE IN
The Memoirs of  SAMUEL N. HARPER - 1902 - 1941
University of Chicago Press, 1945, pages 111-2.

Comment Mr. Harper is protesting (a) an allness, practically impossible when dealing with a number of items from a number sources and (b) an implied endorsement of Sisson�s statements by Harper and Jameson, on which the latter two simply took no stand.

Sisson conclusions were inferred from the evidence, they may have been entirely correct — but Harper and Jameson had said no word about the question, since this was not, properly speaking, their part as had been requested of them.

In the meanwhile much evidence has emerged largely supporting Sisson�s conclusions as stated by Sisson. That neither I nor the reader can be ultimately certain that all the documents were genuine beyond any doubt is a side-issue ; the ambiguity has been played, to my own witness, by various agents of disinformation, as seen in the Internet.

Whether the doubts one might entertain regarding the documents in question be serious doubts or little doubts, one has to consider all the available evidence from other sources to decide on the question — of the levels of co-operation between the German military and the �restless elements�. — (WPT)

5 Details/Locations Author Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943 Title The government of the Soviet union [by] Samuel N. Harper and Ronald Thompson Publisher New York, Van Nostrand Co. [1952,c1949] Description xiv, 369 p. col. maps (on lining-papers) 22 cm Series The Governments of Europe Language English Note Appendices (p. 299-362): 1. Annotated bibliography.--2. Diagram of Soviet government.--3. Constitution of the USSR Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953 Format Book Library UCSD UCLA SRLF UCB UCI UCSB UCSC 6 Details/Locations Author Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943. Title The government of the Soviet union [by] Samuel N. Harper. Publisher New York : D. Van Nostrand company, inc., 1947 [c1938] Description 2 p. l.,viii-xviii, 204 p. 22 cm. Series The governments of modern Europe Language English Note Maps on lining-papers. Note "Bibliographical note": p. 195-198. Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. Format Book Library SRLF UCSB UCSC 7 Details/Locations Author Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943. Title The Russia I believe in; the memoirs of Samuel N. Harper, 1902-1941. Publisher Chicago, Ill., University of Chicago press [1945] Description xiv, 278, [1] p. 23 cm. Language English Subject Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century. Format Book Library SRLF UCSC UCR CSL UCSB UCSD NRLF UCB 8 Details/Locations Author Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943. Title The government of the Soviet union [by] Samuel N. Harper. Publisher New York, D. Van Nostrand company, inc. 1938. Description 2 p. l., vii-xviii, 204 p. 22 cm. Series The governments of modern Europe Language English Note Maps on lining-papers. Note "Bibliographical note": p. 195-198. Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government. Format Book Library SRLF UCSB UCLA UCSD UCSC NRLF UCB 9 Details/Locations Author Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943. Title The government of the Soviet union [by] Samuel N. Harper. Publisher New York, D. Van Nostrand company, inc. [c1937] Description xviii, 204 p. 22 cm. Series The governments of modern Europe Language English Note Maps on lining-papers. Note "Bibliographical note": p. 195-198. Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government. Format Book Library UCSB UCD UCSC 10 Details/Locations Title Source book on European governments; Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, the Soviet union [by] William E. Rappard, Walter R. Sharp, Herbert W. Schneider, James K. Pollock, Samuel N. Harper. Publisher New York, D. Van Nostrand company, inc., 1937. Description vi p., 2 l., 3-122, 177, 113, 202, 198 p. illus. (facsims.) 22 cm. Language English Subject Europe -- Politics and government -- 1914- -- Sources. Format Book Library NRLF UCSB UCLA SRLF UCR 11 Details/Locations Author Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943. Title The Soviet Union and world-problems By the Honorable Alexander A. Troyanovsky ... Ivan V. Boyeff ... Vladimir Romm ... [and others] Samuel N. Harper, editor. Publisher Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press, [1935] Description xviii, 253, [1] p. maps (part fold.) diagrs. 20 cm. Language English Contents The basic principles of soviet foreign policy, by the Honorable A.A. Troyanovsky.--The soviet state monopoly of foreign trade, by I.V. Boyeff.--Geographic tendencies in the Soviet Union, by Vladimir Romm.--The nationality policy of the Soviet Union, by Hans Kohn.--The peace policy of the Soviet Union, by M.W. Graham.--Appendix. Subject Industrial location. Nationalism -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- 1917-1945. Soviet Union -- Commerce. Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1928-1932. Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1933-1937. Format Book Library UCD UCLA SRLF UCR CSL UCSB UCB 12 Details/Locations Author Boyer, Paul, b. 1864. Title Russian reader; accented texts, grammatical and explanatory notes, vocabulary by Paul Boyer ... [and] N. Speranski ... Adapted for English speaking students by Samuel Northrup Harper. Publisher Chicago, The University of Chicago press; [etc., etc.] [1932] Description xviii, 381 p. 24 cm. Language English Subject Russian language -- Readers. Format Book Library UCD 13 Details/Locations Author Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943. Title Making bolsheviks, by Samuel N. Harper ... Publisher Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press [1931] Description xix, 167 p. front; 1 illus. 20 cm. Language English Note "This volume represents six lectures, given under the auspices of the University college, of the University of Chicago, in the autumn of 1930."-- Introd. Subject Education -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1928-1932. Soviet Union -- Politics and government. Soviet Union -- Economic conditions. Format Book Library UCLA SRLF CSL NRLF UCB UCD 14 Details/Locations Author Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943. Title Civic training in Soviet Russia, by Samuel Northrup Harper ... Publisher Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press, [1929] Description xvii, 401 p. 25 cm. Series Studies in the making of citizens Language English Note Bibliography: p. 382-394. Subject Citizenship -- Soviet Union. Education -- Soviet Union. Political parties -- Soviet Union. Soviet Union -- Social conditions. Soviet Union -- Intellectual life. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. Format Book Library SRLF UCSC UCSB CSL UCI NRLF UCD 15 Details/Locations Author Petrunkevitch, Alexander, 1875-1964. Title The Russian revolution, Publisher Cambridge, Harvard university press; [etc., etc.] 1918. Description iv, 109, [1] p. 21 cm. Language English Contents The role of the intellectuals in the liberating movement in Russia, by A. Petrunkevitch.--Forces behind the Russian revolution, by S.N. Harper.--The Russian revolution, by F.A. Golder.--The Jugo-Slav movement, by R.J. Kerner.--Appendices: I. Declaration of the Jugo-Slav club of the Austrian Parliament on May 30, 1917. II. The pact of Corfu. III. Bibliographical hints (p.106-109). Subject Slavs -- Balkan Peninsula. Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917- Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917- Format Book Library SRLF NRLF UCD CSL UCB UCR 16 Details/Locations Author Petrunkevitch, Alexander Ivanovitch, 1875- Title The Russian revolution, by Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel Northrup Harper, Frank Alfred Golder. The Jugo-Slav movement, by Robert Joseph Kerner. Publisher Cambridge Harvard University Press 1918 Description 100,1p. Language English Note Contents.-The role of the intellectuals in the liberating movement in Russia, by A. Petrunkevitch.-Forces behind the Russian revolution, by S. N. Harper.-The Russian revolution, by F. A. Golder.-The Jugo-Slav club of the Austrian Parliament on May 30, 1917. II. The pact of Corfu. Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936. Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921. Yugoslavs. Format Book Library UCSC 17 Details/Locations Uniform Title [ Russian review (Liverpool : T. Nelson and Sons)] Title The Russian review. Publisher Nendeln, Liechtenstein, Kraus Reprint. Description 3v. ill. (map) 25 cm. Series Kraus reprint Language English Note "A quarterly review of Russian history, politics, economics, and literature". Subject Russian literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals. Russia -- Politics and government -- Periodicals. Russia -- History -- Periodicals. Format Journal Library UCD 18 Details/Locations Author Harper, Samuel N. (Samuel Northrup), 1882-1943. Title The new electoral law for the Russian Duma, by Samuel N. Harper ... Publisher Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1908. Description 1 p. L., 56 p. 19 cm. Series The University of Chicago studies in political science Language English Subject Election law -- Soviet Union. Format Book Library UCLA NRLF 19 Details/Locations Author Boyer, Paul Jean Marie, 1864-1949. Uniform Title [ Manuel pour l'e�tude de la langue russe. English] Title Russian reader : accented texts, grammatical and explanatory notes, vocabulary / by Paul Boyer, N. Speranski ; adapted for English speaking students by Samuel Northrup Harper. Publisher Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1906. Description x, 386 p. ; 24 cm. Language Russian Note Texts are from the works of Count Leo Tolstoy. Subject Russian language -- Readers. Format Book Library UCLA 20 Details/Locations Author Boyer, Paul Jean Marie, 1864- Title Russian reader; accented texts, grammatical and explanatory notes, vocabulary by Paul Boyer ... [and] N. Speranski ... Adapted for English speaking students by Samuel Northrup Harper. Publisher Chicago, The University of Chicago press; [etc.] 1906. Description x, 381 p. 24 cm. Language English Note Texts are from the works of Count Leo Tolstoy.