Harold Henry Fisher (1890–1975) was a US historian specializing in Russian history. Fisher was born in

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; he received an AB from the

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in 1911. He served as a field artillery captain during

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, and was appointed chief of the Historical Department of American Relief Administration during the post-war famine in Eastern Europe and Russia. His collection of Tsarist and Bolshevik documents subsequently became a permanent part of the

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's holdings. Fisher became a lecturer at Stanford University in 1924. He was later named Curator of the American Relief Administration Archives (1924–1934), Secretary of the Directors (1925–1930), Director of the Russian Revolution Institute (1929–1940), Vice-Chairman of the Directors (1931–1943), Chairman of the Directors (1943–1952), and Chairman of the Advisory Board (1952–1955). After

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he served the

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in various advisory capacities. He retired from Stanford in 1955, but went on to serve as a visiting professor at the

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, and

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. The Hoover Institution established the Harold H. Fisher Endowment Fund in 1969; its purpose was the collection of documents relating to the history, economy, and politics of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

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