Author: [Edited by] Gessen, I. V.
Title: Arkhiv Russkoi Revoliutsii. Vol. II [Archive of the Russian Revolution. Vol. II]
Description: Berlin: Slovo, 1921. Softcover. First edition; 7 x 8 1/2; pp. 227; rebound with plain black paper over stiff card stock boards; faint bookshop (?) stamp to title page; a few spots to margins, mostly to first and last few pages; light uniform age-toning; a bit of rubbing to tips of spine and corners; overall very good. Volume II of this influential White emigre journal, published between 1921 and 1937 in a total of 22 issues. It contained memoirs of notable figures as well as materials and documents pertaining to the Revolution and the Civil War. The editor, Iosif Gessen, was one of the founders and leaders of the Kadet Party (the Constitutional Democratic Party known as People’s Freedom Party). It was the chief party of the counterrevolutionary liberal-monarchist bourgeoisie in Russia and formed during the course of the Revolution of 1905. Other chief figures of the party were Vladimir Nabokov, Petr Struve, Princes Pavel and Petr Dolgorukii, and others. From 1906 to 1917, Gessen was a statesman at the Second State Duma and a publisher of several journals. After the Revolution, in 1919, for his harsh and outspoken anti-Soviet views Gessen was forced to leave the country - first to Finland and eventually to Germany. Before he began publishing the Archive, he founded the newspaper "Rul" (The Rudder) together with Nabokov and Avgust Kaminka. The current issue of the journal included "Journal of the Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Crimean Regional Government, April 16 1919," as well as materials and notes by General A. S. Lukomskii, O. Chernin, and S. V. Militsyn. Ill.: 0. 2.

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