Photocopies of inscriptions on title-pages and end papers of books in Catherine Markstein-Rakovsky's library; for example, there are inscriptions written by Efim Etkind, Bulat Okudzhava, and others.

Folders 1345 to 1354 contain materials for a seminar entitled "Problems of Translation" that Markstein taught at the U. of Texas at Austin.

Folders 1363 to 1368 contain photocopies of plays by such authors as Arbuzov, Bulgakov, Erdman, and others for a seminar at the U. of Texas at Austin.

Folder contents vary from typescripts of 2 Vasilii Aksenov stories to a television typescript of a show called "Open End," the participants of which included Heinrich Böll, to a form letter sent out by Natalia Belinkova, who along with her husband Arkadii, edited the anthology Novyi Kolokol.

Articles take the form of photocopies or tear sheets and range in subject matter from articles on Lev Kopelev and samizdat to an interview with Gennadii Khazanov.

Articles, primarily tear sheets or clippings with only a few photocopies, are in Russian, German, French and English. Folder 1400 includes a report from Radio Free Europe.

Folders contain random issues of such titles as Problems of Communism and Jews in Eastern Europe.

Folder 1416 contains an article on Markstein published in a newsletter, and folder 1417 contains a brochure for an exhibition entitled "Zufall Heisst Uns Zuhause," which features Markstein among others.

Vadim Andreev inscribed for Markstein a copy of his book Detstvo, and a Russian friend inscribed a volume of Alexander Herzen. These volumes can be located through Notre Dame's online catalog.