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Feb 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In the interwar, there was an entire Emigre Cossack Archive and Press house in Prague, it had tens of thousands of documents, some of the State Voisko archives too evacuated from Crimea or through Georgia. It disappeared after 1945. I don’t think it’s been “reconstructed.”
George Fischer was one of the chief Americans overseeing the creation of the Russian Collection of the Hoover Institute, General Golovin who wrote a 7 volume Anti Denikin History was the purchasing agent for Europe.

They competed with the Czechoslovak Zemgor Archive
And the Zemgor Archive was for all Russia, I think the Kubantsy ran either a separate archive or a autonomous one under Zemgor.

Supposedly these are in 575 Fonds in GARF, which, if unmolested, would include hundreds of manuscript Civil War memoirs.
Who knows man

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Feb 1
“Belyi Arkhiv” was published by Yakov Markovich Lisovoy, an odd character who repeatedly built and lost archives. During the war he collected thousands of newspapers, books, orders, and copies of documents. His intent with “White Archive” was to create a mirror to “Red Archive” ImageImageImageImage
Red Archive would collect increasingly redacted and edited materials over the 30s, before being shut down in 1941. Still it had 106 volumes and the stuff before 1930 is somewhat more reliable. Lisovoy wanted to use his own massive collection he had saved from Crimea to compete. ImageImage
Lisovoy had a traveling museum in the United States, he lived in Chicago but traveled around with his collection as “The Museum of Modern Russian Affairs.” But Lisovoy only put out two volumes of Belyi Archive (both are excellent primary source collections.)
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Jan 3
Part of it is creating an ideological basis of the American people through the interpretation that American radicalism has yet to be fully realized. He’s better than Foner, in the Oxford history of the US series which he is the chief editor of, but I like this anecdote:
The Oxford History of the United States was started in the 1970’s and is still being written, most volumes are quite good information sources.

But what volumes have come out?
The easiest ones to write from their perspectives have come out first. The last was Reconstruction.
The Next in this year will be the “Reconciliation and Progressive Era” both are very hard to write from a liberal perspective who rejects Foner, but still possible in obvious ways from Wood’s perspective. The two volumes on Colonial History haven’t been announced at all.
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Jan 3
Talking about Taylor & Foner versus the Oxford history was fun here,

For anyone who might think I went to fast with recommendations at the end, I want to give you a more expanded list.

Starting with my own introduction to US Colonial History, the standard textbook 100 years ago
Oliver Perry Chitwood was one of the greatest early 20th century colonial historian scholars, though he looks more at the evolution of political institutions and religious communities more than ethnology, which David Hackett Fisher is a good but incomplete study.
Another thing I imply is that British history, English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish history in specific regards to Ulster is key to the colonial American ethnos, some of that has to involve reading British history to modern times and colonial immigration waves.
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Oct 27, 2021
After waiting for the better part of the year I got British Intelligence officer David Footman’s info pamphlets on the Russian Civil War and the Baltic.
Unlike most sources published in Britain, Footman does not attribute the Baltic Freikorps as being agents of the German state, which is found in works of much later date.

He says they are much like the young English men who joined the Black and Tans, and gets their POV correct.
Some pages are very worn, but still readable.

The Landeswehr was meant to contain Latvian troops, but they would not join these units to be lead by Germans.

Some of the Freikorps and Balts had strange ideas for fixing the situation, like making Latvia a protectorate of Sweden
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Oct 27, 2021
Article by Peter Holquist on Decossackization.

Typical apologetic explanations of the policy have said that it was the conditions of the Civil War that set the methods of the future Soviet Union towards the social Volksgemeinschaft, Holquist argues that it was innate.
The peasant attitudes to the Cossacks became increasingly hostile, but it was the “materialist” and “class reductionist” intelligentsia-nomenclatura of the senior party that conceptualized the liquidation of the Cossacks as a zoological prerogative and not a class/cultural one.
The policy was crucial in solidifying the Don Cossack hostility. The more socialist minded upper stanitsas had let the Red Army through after Krasnov failed to take Tsaritsyn, they were rewarded with summary execution thanks to the circular order. This caused the Upper Don revolt
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Oct 26, 2021
I got this today, it’s Rutych’s life long effort at collecting biographical information from the Northwest Army in Immigration. It’s a historical dictionary with an introductory essay I’m going to share because it has information not in any English source.
Yudenich spent most of 1918-first half of 1919 in Finland lobbying Mannerheim to assist in a drive on Petrograd through Karelia. They had reached an agreement by June but Mannerheim withheld publicly announcing it because he wanted to win the July Finnish Presidential Election.
Mannerheim, however, lost this election to Ståhlberg, and left public life and Finland itself.

Yudenich, having his time in Finland rendered pointless, leaves the Day after elections for Estonia, where he had been absent until then (a fact that made some memoirists hostile.)
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