Soviet Union Information Bureau
THE All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries was formed for the purpose of establishing closer relations between cultural and scientific bodies in the Soviet Union and those of foreign countries. It arranges the exchange of information, reports, periodicals and books issued by such societies in the Soviet Union for similar publications in foreign countries, and it issues weekly bulletins setting forth various phases of scientific and cultural progress. The Society maintains a Service Bureau for Foreign Visitors, which assists foreigners who go to the Soviet Union for purposes of research or study, and arranges tours for visiting professors, scientists, etc. Madame 0. D. Kameneva is President of the Society. The address is Malaia Nikitskaia, No. 6, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. During 1926 a branch of the Society was established at Leningrad, the seat of great art collections and of the Academy of Sciences. The address is Ulitza Khalturina, No. Leningrad, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Reciprocal societies for the promotion of cultural relations with the U.S.S.R. have been formed in various countries.
The exchange of books on cultural and technical subjects with learned societies, universities and Government departments in foreign countries has reached considerable proportions. In 1927 the Society received 81,347 volumes from correspondent organizations abroad and sent in return 82,616 volumes. The United States stood first among countries on the exchange list and Germany second. From organizations in the United States 48,101 volumes were received, nearly 60 per cent of the total, and 18,572 volumes were sent to organizations in the United States.
During the first nine months of 1928 the Society exchanged nearly 160,000 volumes with foreign countries, of which 88,125 volumes were received and 69,242 were sent. Of these 41,040 volumes were received from the United States and 19,400 volumes were sent to the United States.
An affiliated organization, the American Society for Cultural Relations with Russia (USSR), was organized in 1927. It maintains a headquarters at 49 East 25th Street, New York City. Its membership includes some of the most distinguished figures in arts and professions in American life. A list of its officers and committees follows:
President
WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON
Vice Presidents
JOHN DEWEY
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
STEPHEN P. DUGGAN
FLOYD DELL
LILLIAN D. WALD
Treasurer
ALLEN WARDWELL
Secretary
Lucy BRANHAM
Chairman Executive Committee
GRAHAM R. TAYLOR
Directors
THOMAS L. COTTON
JEROME DAVIS
ERNE5TINE EVANS
MRS. NORMAN HAPGOOD
ARTHUR GARFIELD HAYS
HORACE LIVERIGHT
UNDERHILL MOORE
ERNEST M. PATTERSON
JAMES N. ROSENBERG
LEE SIMONSON
EDGAR VARESE
and the officers
Executive Committee
THOMAS L. COTTON
STEPHEN P. DUGGAN
ERNESTINE EVANS
MRS. NORMAN HAPGOOD
LEE SIMONSON
GRAHAM R. TAYLOR
LILLIAN D. WALD
ALLEN WARDWELL
LUCY BRANRAM, Secretary
Advisory Council
JANE ADDAMS
CARL ALSBERG
FRANZ BOAS
PHILLIPS BRADLEY
STUART CHASE
HAVEN EMERSON
ZONA GALE
FRANK GOLDER
MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN
DAVID STARR JORDAN
ALEXANDER KAUN
SUSAN KINGSBURY
JULIA LATIIROP
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
EVA LE GALLIENNE
HOWARD SCOTT LIDDELL
E. C. LINDEMAN
JACOB G. LIPMAN
ROBERT LITTELL
H. ADOLPHUS MILLER
BOARDMAN ROBINSON
CLARENCE S. STEIN
WALTER W. PETTIT
LUCY TEXTOR
WILBUR K. THOMAS
HARRY WARD
LUCY WILSON
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