- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Werner, Max, 1901-
- Title:
- Max Werner papers
- Repository:
- Public Policy Papers
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cv43nw84t
- Dates:
- 1933-1955
- Size:
- 10 boxes
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 1-10
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Werner (pseudonym of Alexander Schifrin) was a Russian native who was exiled to Germany (1923-1933) and subsequently lived in France (1933-1939) and the United States (1940-1951). Consists of selected papers of Werner
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of selected papers of Werner. Included are notes, outlines, and chapter drafts for a projected book on the international military, political, and strategic problems arising from World War II and the post-war period, positing the thesis that in the event of a world conflict with atomic weapons neither Russia nor the United States could win. With a working title of THE NEW BALANCE OF POWER, most of the material concerns military issues. Also present are copies of his syndicated column (1948-1949), "The Course of the World," articles, bibliographies, and a large file of newspaper clippings used as source material.
- Arrangement
Materials are arranged into two series -- the first is a collection of papers from Max Werner. The second is the records collected by Ruth Lowe and given to the library in 1968.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Werner, Max, 1901-
Werner (pseudonym of Alexander Schifrin) was a Russian native who was exiled to Germany (1923-1933) and subsequently lived in France (1933-1939) and the United States (1940-1951).
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Consists of two gifts to the library. One gift was received as a deposit prior to 1968 and officially made a gift in 1989 by Tamar Wann (nee Kazman); the second was given to the library by Ruth N. Lowe, a friend of Tamar Kazmann, Werner's heir, in 1968. A note in the box mentions that 26 boxes of "Max Werner Archives" were sent to the Foundation for World Government.
- Appraisal
There is no indication that materials were separated from this collection.
- Processing Information
There is no indication that any physical processing took place for this collection. When the original deposit was accessioned as a gift in 1989 the collection became the "Max Werner Papers" and the second 1968 gift became "Max Werner Additional Papers". The finding aid for this collection integrates both and they are shelved together at the Mudd Manuscript Library. A finding aid was created from a MARC record in 2007.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.
- Credit this material:
Max Werner papers; Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cv43nw84t
- Location:
-
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 1-10
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- Subject Terms:
- Balance of power -- 20th century.
Deterrence (Strategy)
Journalists -- United States -- 20th century.
Military policy -- 20th century.
Nuclear nonproliferation.
Nuclear warfare.
Politics and war.
Warfare, Conventional -- 20th century.
World War III.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes. - Genre Terms:
- Articles.
Clippings.
Correspondence.
Manuscripts.
Notebooks. - Places:
- France -- Military policy -- 20th century.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Germany -- Military policy -- 20th century.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- 20th century.
Soviet Union -- Military policy -- 20th century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- 20th century.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953.
United States -- Military policy -- 20th century.
