English Translation

In these documents the military and political element, the operative and propagandist element, is usually inseparably intertwined, so that the division of the material into military and civil documents can be here only artificial. Although it also provides material for the military problems of the civil war, it sheds much more light on its political side. Even the undeniably military documents with a purely operational character from this period (such documents are, however, only little present in the archive collection) receive much greater scientific value and a much greater memorabilia in connection with the other documents, which reflect the atmosphere in which the front formed, lived and fought. If this atmosphere is not considered, the study of the individual military operations will be transformed into an alien scholasticism. For this reason, the collections of archives on the world war, the civil war and even on emigration as a result of the close interlinking of the military element with all other questions constitute a single, inseparable whole. In its present state, the archive collection has a great scientific value, especially as far as the hangover on the civil war is concerned, since it is the largest collection of documents of the "whites" of all existing in the world. Here, in the remnants of government, administration and military archives, in memoir notes and in correspondence of politicians, practitioners and scientific books, all the parties of the civil war find their reflection. The importance of the Russian historical archive was generally recognized in the earlier conditions of scientific exchange. Every year, scientists who had come from afar to study the rich collections of archives appeared in the archive, and for more than one scientific book, the documents were sourced from the archive. The largest experts have recognized the collection as irreplaceable, all the more so since this collection is linked to a carefully selected library by means of its "organic" connection.