The Internet Archive is truly one of the best websites out there. Rivaled by Google Books and Worldcat in their usefulness.
One good thing that our federal government has been doing in recent years is digitizing the records held by the National Archives (catalog.archives.gov).
I'm no expert in the Russian Revolution, but I know my way around digital archives. I did a search for "The Volunteer Army of Alexeiv and Denikin" through the NARA catalog and came up with this hit: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26802663 (a digitized copy of a microfilm publication dealing with post-WWI peace negotiations in Russia). It looks like the Volkonsky pamphlet is in there, as well as a bunch of others that will be of interest to you.
There's one (beginning frame 257) entitled "Ataman Krasnov's Speech, December 13, 1918 when he met General Pool, English government delegate" which I'm reading now.
Also, if you find something in the catalog that is of interest but that has not been digitized, I have found the National Archives staff to be *very accommodating* in assisting with research requests.
The web interface is a little wonky with this transition from microfilm to digitization, but they have a pdf available to download (highly recommended).
Everyone reading this should subscribe to you. $5 extremely well spent.
AFTER you subscribe, you should give money to the Archive. They are being sued by the known universe, & although they are backed with some cash, they need more to fight the many, many lawsuits they have been subjected to.
Really interesting find, thanks for sharing it! Do you have any suggestions on how to search for things like this? Is it just a matter of brute forcing your way through searches, looking by terms that might interest you then getting lucky?
This is a most interesting find! Thank you.
The Internet Archive is truly one of the best websites out there. Rivaled by Google Books and Worldcat in their usefulness.
One good thing that our federal government has been doing in recent years is digitizing the records held by the National Archives (catalog.archives.gov).
I'm no expert in the Russian Revolution, but I know my way around digital archives. I did a search for "The Volunteer Army of Alexeiv and Denikin" through the NARA catalog and came up with this hit: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26802663 (a digitized copy of a microfilm publication dealing with post-WWI peace negotiations in Russia). It looks like the Volkonsky pamphlet is in there, as well as a bunch of others that will be of interest to you.
There's one (beginning frame 257) entitled "Ataman Krasnov's Speech, December 13, 1918 when he met General Pool, English government delegate" which I'm reading now.
Also, if you find something in the catalog that is of interest but that has not been digitized, I have found the National Archives staff to be *very accommodating* in assisting with research requests.
The web interface is a little wonky with this transition from microfilm to digitization, but they have a pdf available to download (highly recommended).
The federal government, though can and probably will purge anything truly unflattering to them, where as archive.org is it's own thing.
Great stuff.
Everyone reading this should subscribe to you. $5 extremely well spent.
AFTER you subscribe, you should give money to the Archive. They are being sued by the known universe, & although they are backed with some cash, they need more to fight the many, many lawsuits they have been subjected to.
I am not reading all of that.
Alright I lied. I did read all of that.
This was fascinating. Thank you!
Really interesting find, thanks for sharing it! Do you have any suggestions on how to search for things like this? Is it just a matter of brute forcing your way through searches, looking by terms that might interest you then getting lucky?