White Archive Yakov Lisovoy 1926 Sourcebook IN RUSSIAN

White archive: Collections of materials on the history and literature of the war, revolution, Bolshevism, the white movement, etc. Белый архив: Сборники материалов по истории и литературе войны, революции, большевизма, белого движения и т.п. Под ред. Я.М. Лисового. Part I: 1926. 223 pages. Yakov Markovich Lisovoy (1882-1965) was an officer of the Russian army, colonel, an active participant in the White movement, and, since 1920, was in exile. The sourcebook contains materials, which consists of documents, from the period of the revolution and the Civil War. In 1945-1947, in the USSR, most of the collection was fragmented and distributed among the special guards of various museums and, thus, ceased to exist as a whole. Therefore, the publication of the "White Archive" acquired special historical significance.

Original printing in Russian. Covers have some wear, chipping on the spine (see picture) and is separating (see picture). Complete, otherwise very good. With illustrations. A somewhat rare book.

Lisovoy's sourcebook was an answer to the "Red Archive", a collection of edited materials which grew to 106 volumes, including more reliable pre-1930s material. It was shut down in 1941. Lisovoy, who lived in Chicago, had a traveling museum in the United States, which exhibited his collection called “The Museum of Modern Russian Affairs.” Lisovoy only put out two volumes of Belyi Archive, both excellent primary source collections. By 1942 he grew tired of the Museum, and due to various difficulties, he contacted the USSR to try and host his materials at the national library. Unfortunately, this ended most of his collection. From 1947-1960, thousands of papers, books and documents were given over to the embassy, subsequently divided amongst institutions, and lost as a single collection.