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School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Pahl and Thompson Collection

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0369 PAH

Held at: School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Title: Pahl and Thompson Collection

Date(s): 1991

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 7 boxes

Name of creator(s): Pahl | Ray E | b 1936 | sociologist
Thompson | Paul Richard | b 1935 | sociologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

"Families, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial values: Britain and Russia" was a project headed by Professors R E Pahl and P R Thompson and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The project involved life story interviews of adults from two different generations of the same family in order to investigate the connection between family and cultural sources of entrepreneurial values and entrepreneurship. The British section of the project was never undertaken.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Research material from the "Families, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial values" project comprising:
audio tapes of forty six Russian life story interviews with two and in one case three members of different generations of twenty two families in Moscow and Leningrad, 1991, there are transcipts and translations of most if the interviews; related papers including interview summary sheets, a draft interview guide for interviewers and the end of project report

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and Russian

System of arrangement:

The collection is divided into two classes, audio tapes (PAH/1) and transcripts, translations and related papers (PAH/2).

Conditions governing access:

Access unrestricted but an undertaking must be given not to identify individual interviewees in any published work produced as a result of using this collection. Researchers wishing to consult the archives or seeking further information should contact UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) Library, 16 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Librarian.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Online catalogue available on the UCL Archives website.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/libraries-and-study-spaces/ucl-school-slavonic-and-east-european-studies-library

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Revised by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.