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"The
GULAG Press, containing "news" bulletins, posters, literary journals,
albums and booklets, has been neglected by historians for the
GULAG camp system until now. This has been cased, to a large
extent, by the simple fact that GULAG Press publications have
never been completely preserved. The 4-5 major Russian repositories
have only partial stores. The Nauchnaia biblioteka Gosudarstvennogo
arkhiva Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Scientific Library of State Archive
of the Russian Federation) in Moscow has the most comprehensive
collection. It contains quite a few unique publications.
For years this collection was not processed, and did not enter
the scholarly circulation since it was assigned to the "secret"
documents category with restricted access. This complete
collection is now available on microfiche from IDC Publishers."
The collection is available on microfiche at the University of
Illinois library.
"Russian
history during the period of the Civil War (1917-1922) should
be learned objectively. One of the conditions for the objective
representation of this tragic period in the country's life is
the use of unexplored sources. Among these sources are flyers
that represent a chronicle of events. They are a historical record
and consist of unique, never before published facts and information.
This extremely valuable collection of flyers was preserved in
the fonts of the former Spets-khran of the Russian National Library.
The flyers were issued on the territories that were controlled
by anti-Bolshevik governments, mainly in Povolozhia, Ural, Siberia
and Northern Russia (Nov 1917 - Sept. 1920); 2,500 items total.
This collection of documents is available to the public for the
first time and is an important source for national and regional
historians and all who care for Russia." This description
is taken from the index to the flyer collection on microfiche,
pictured above, which is held in its entirety by the University
of Illinois library. The catalog is indexed by title, names,
geographical location, organization, publisher and place of publication.
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Slavic Library | Slavic Reference Service Russian and East European Studies Center University Library Gateway | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Last updated: 7/9/02 Comments to: Helen Sullivan |