Exhibition at the Plekhanov House
L.A. Tikhomirov's Diary. 1915 - 1917. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2008. 440 pp.
The publication contains scientific comments and notes.
Lev Tikhomirov (1852 - 1923) had been a revolutionary and ideologue of the left-wing terrorist organization Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will) but later became an ardent monarchist and editor of the newspaper Moscow News. He kept his diary for more than 30 years. And though, his works have been republished in the recent years, such an interesting source as the Diary yet remains virtually unknown to the general public. The exhibited publication of Lev Alexandrovich's diary records, stored in his personal fund (f. 634) in the State Archives of the Russian Federation, fills this gap.
A.F. Kerensky. The Prelude To Bolshevism: Trans. from English. Moscow: ZAO Tsentrpoligraf, 2006. 319 pp.
A.F. Kerensky. The Kornilov Affair. Moscow: Zadruga, 1918. 194pp.
The book contains word-for-word transcripts of evidence of the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government Alexander Kerensky (1881 - 1970) relating to the Lavr Kornilov rising.
The annotation to the 2006 edition, translated from English, erroneously states that this work by Kerensky was first published in Russian. But as far back as 1918, the publishing house Zadruga issued it under the title The Kornilov Affair in Moscow, and in 1928, the Leningrad publishing house Krasnaya Gazeta (Red Newspaper) produced a series of books The Kornilov Rising: From the White (Guard)'s Memoirs, including The Kornilov Affair by Kerensky.
A. A.BrusilovMy Memories. MM: ROSSPEN, 2001. 464 pp.
The book has a preface about the history of Aleksei Brusilov's archives, as well as research notes and comments.
Aleksei Brusilov (1853 - 1926) was an outstanding Russian military commander, commander of the army and then of the South-west Front during the First World War, in May - June 1917 appointed Commander in Chief of the Russian Army. After the revolution, he occuped senior positions in the Red Army from 1920 to 1924. Brusilov began work on his memories during the Civil War and completed it in 1926 in Carlsbad, where he moved for treatment with the assistance of Mikhail Frunze. His memoirs cover a long historical period from the mid 50s of the 19th century to 1925. The first part of memoirs was issued in Riga by the publishing house Mir (World), and then was reprinted several times in the Soviet Union . The second part, written in Carlsbad, and contained Brusilov's censorious remarks on internal and external politics of Bolshevik leaders, was declared a forgery and was not available to the general reader. The memories were first published in whole.
M.A.Taube "Summer Lightnings": Memoirs about the tragic fate of the pre-revolutionary Russia (1900 - 1917). Moscow: Monuments of Historical Thought; ROSSPEN, 2007. 272 pp. (From the collections of the Bachmetiev Archive).
The publication has introductions and research reference information.
This book is the first published Russian version of the memoirs of the historian, international lawyer, diplomat, Professor Baron Mikhail Taube (1869 - 1956). His memoirs in German and French were issued in the early 1930s. The Russian version was written, or rather dictated, in 1954 - 1956 years in Paris at the request of the Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture at Columbia University in New York and opened a series of so-called invited memoirs. These publications, representing a broad panorama of social and political life of Russia in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, contain valuable information about the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Public Education, about the struggle of factions in the government circles before the First World War and the February Revolution.
V.A.Maklakov. Memories: The Leader of Moscow Kadets about Russian Politics. 1880 - 1917. Moscow: ZAO Tsentrpoligraf, 2006. 351 pp. (Witnesses to the Age).
In his memoirs, Vasilii Maklakov (1870 - 1957), a member of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democrat Party (Kadets), a delegate of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th State Dumas of the Russian Empire, a political figure, one of the most prominent Russian defence lawyer, analyzes the political, social and legal foundations of the Russian Empire and the events in which, as the author writes in the preface, 'the October Revolution of 1917 suddenly appears as a result of the tsar's authoritarian regime.'
I.G. Tsereteli. Memories of the Leader of the Mensheviks, a Deputy of the Second State Duma. 1917 - 1918. Moscow: ZAO Tsentrpoligraf, 2007. 255. (Witnesses to the Age).
In his memoirs, Irakli Tsereteli (1881 - 1959) provided a picture of the struggle of views, ideas and opinions amidst revolutionary society, which mainly determined the course of events. The author investigates the causes of the political bankruptcy of the socialist parties of the Mensheviks and SRs (the Social-Democratic Labour Party and Socialist Revolutionary Party).
L.D. Trotsky: The History of the Russian Revolution. Moscow: Politizdat, 1990. 447 pp.
This book is the first domestic reissue of Leon Trotsky's works since the end of the 1920s, not counting newspaper and magazine publications. Results and Prospects. The Driving Forces of the Revolution, About Lenin, Lessons of October, The History of the Russian Revolution, etc. were selected and included in the volume due to the urgency of the theme and the desire to complete the picture of an enormous historical significance, to try to understand the place Trotsky in the revolution as well as the attitude to its lessons, ways and means of building a new society.
G.M.Katkov. The February Revolution: Trans. from English. Moscow: ZAO Tsentrpoligraf, 2006. 478pp.
The study of the Russian emigre, historian, philosopher, Georgy Katkov (1903 - 1985) explores the features of the pre-revolutionary political situation in Russia, reconstruct the chronology of events during the First World War, reveals the activities of the revolutionary parties, talks about the state of the Russian army and political life of society. The summary notice for publication erroneously states that this was the first edition, published in Russian. In fact, this Katkov's work was printed in Russian in Paris by publishing house YMCA-Press as far back as 1984 in the series Studies of Modern Russian History, issued under the general editorship of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In Russia the book was released in 1997 by the Moscow publishing house Russky put' (Russian Way).
R. PethybridgeThe Russian Revolution in the Eyes of its Contemporaries : Memoirs of winners and losers. 1905 - 1918: Trans. from English. M., Inc. Tsentrpoligraf, 2006. 319.
In his book, the British sociologist Roger Pethybridge collected and examined a variety of testimonies from participants and eyewitnesses to the dramatic events that took place in Russia in 1905 - 1918. Fragments of letters, speeches, articles and memories of John Reed, Alexander Kerensky, Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Sukhanov and several others reflected a tense atmosphere of social and political life of Russia in that period.
Additionally, on display in the Plekhanov House are a number of interesting publications on this topic. Among them, special attention should be given to copies of the Rosalia Plekhanova collections (f. 1094. Op. 3) and the Memorial Library.
