“World's Stolen / Secret History”

Can some explain what exactly is this body of work trying to accomplish that supposedly is not available already.
 
Can some explain what exactly is this body of work trying to accomplish that supposedly is not available already.
There is a good possibility that this version of world history is more objective than other western views on it. Though I think that it depends heavily on the historic period in question and the most differences in the view of history could probably be found in the last (the 6th) volume which deals with the 20th century.
 
Received today a short answer from the publisher: "there are no such plans to translate it into English".

If needed, I can start to carefully read the books. But what would I have to pay attention to?

They say that these volumes are for historians and non-specialist audiences but there are no references in the books. I couldn't find any citations of ancient historians as well. They have chronology and an extensive list of recommended literature (with many English books) as an appendix and they can be easily translated and posted here if needed. I can also translate the table of contents so that you know what exactly the books deal with.

Or I can just look up for certain periods/events and post dates/summaries here.
 
Received today a short answer from the publisher: "there are no such plans to translate it into English".

If needed, I can start to carefully read the books. But what would I have to pay attention to?

They say that these volumes are for historians and non-specialist audiences but there are no references in the books. I couldn't find any citations of ancient historians as well. They have chronology and an extensive list of recommended literature (with many English books) as an appendix and they can be easily translated and posted here if needed. I can also translate the table of contents so that you know what exactly the books deal with.

Or I can just look up for certain periods/events and post dates/summaries here.

Well, if there are no citations, it's pretty useless for historians.
 
Received today a short answer from the publisher: "there are no such plans to translate it into English".

If needed, I can start to carefully read the books. But what would I have to pay attention to?

They say that these volumes are for historians and non-specialist audiences but there are no references in the books. I couldn't find any citations of ancient historians as well. They have chronology and an extensive list of recommended literature (with many English books) as an appendix and they can be easily translated and posted here if needed. I can also translate the table of contents so that you know what exactly the books deal with.

Or I can just look up for certain periods/events and post dates/summaries here.

My perception might be completely off but my understanding in reading about the "joint study history books" which is part of this project - is that entries are well annotated? It may be, they are using a format in this literature that we are not accustomed to in Western publications, especially if - "a mixed commission for studies" is involved?

A joint work of this magnitude is generally submitted to the International and Area Studies Library. This is a reference to one depository -

Guides to Sources on Russian History and Historiography
Guides to Sources on Russian History and Historiography – International and Area Studies Library – U of I Library

Bibliography of Bibliographies and Historiographical Bibliographies

Bibliografiia russkoi bibliografii po istorii SSSR. Annotirovannyi perechen bibliograficheskikh ukazateli izdannykh do 1917.

This is a superbly annotated guide to bibliographies on Russian history published up to 1917. This project was a joint effort of the State Historical Library (Moscow) and the Russian National Library (Petersburg): State Historical Library (Moscow) compiled the section on the history of the SSSR; the Russian National Library (Petersburg) wrote the sections on general history. Along with historical bibliographies, this bibliography includes bibliographies of publications of societies and organizations, indices of historical journals, and lists of works by Russian historians. Individual entries for historians often include biographical materials as well as bibliography. The volume concludes with an author/title and a general name index. This guide is the best place to start a search for bibliographies on any historical subject before 1917.

Istoriia SSSR. Annotirovannyi perechen russkikh bibliografii izdannykh do 1965 g

This is a continuation of the work listed above, compiled in a joint effort by the Russian State Library (Moscow) and the State Historical Library (Moscow). Each item is described in detailed annotations. Materials included are monographs, articles in books and periodicals, and journal indexes, and are divided into four sections: I. General Works; II. Bibliographies on the history of the USSR up to 1861; III. History of the USSR from 1861-1917; IV History of the USSR during the socialist period and the construction of communism. The volume includes bibliographies of historiography, of memoir literature, of individuals, and of histories of various republics of the USSR (Ukraine, Central Asia, etc.) The lengthy section devoted to biobibliographical works perhaps deserves special attention as it lists bibliographies of works by Russian/Soviet historians and works about them. Since entries are well annotated, the scholar will have a clear picture of the scope of each work cited as can be seen in the entries below reproduced from p. 164 of the bibliography.

Istoriia istoricheskoi nauki v SSSR. Dooktiabrskii period. Bibliografiia.

This bibliography covers the historiography of Russia up to 1917. Citations are to books, articles in journals, sborniki, newspapers, and dissertations published up to 1963. All kinds of historical study are included, although Church history is covered very selectively. The bibliography itself is divided into three parts: General works, Literature on the work of historical societies and groups, and Literature on individual historians.


Entries provide full bibliographic information but are not annotated. However, the compilers frequently supply information on the topic, society or individual that is the subject of the section. So, for example, in the section on the Russkoe arkheologichesko obshchestvo there is basic information on the founding of the society.

The bibliography covers historians who emigrated, but works published in emigration are not included. The compilers used numerous collections for their citations, including GPIB, the Lenin Library, and the Saltykov-Shchedrin Library. Other citations were taken from the massive bibliographies of Mezhov and Lambin. Entries are not annotated, but the contents for some sborniki and multi-volume works are listed. The work concludes with a cumulative name/title index.

Istoriia istoricheskoi nauki v SSSR. Sovetskii period. Oktiabr’ 1917-1967. Bibliografiia.

This is a continuation of the bibliography listed above, covering historiography from 1917 to 1967. It was compiled by GPIB in cooperation with the various institutes of history of the Academy of Sciences and regional affiliates. An enormous number of sources were consulted for the compilation of this bibliography, including the collections of the GPIB, the Lenin Library, and the Saltykov-Shchedrin Library, as well as bibliographic publications such as the INION historical bulletins. Most of the items cited are in Russian, but some citations are to works in languages of the other republics of the USSR.

The volume is divided into two parts. Part one covers general topics. Each chapter of the bibliography is devoted to some area of historiography, from the historiography of world history to the historiography of the history of feudal Russia. The second part is devoted to the activities of scholarly organizations and historical societies. Here can be found information on the publications and history of individual institutions.

An index of authors, editors, compilers, and titles of sborniki and periodicals provides easy access to individual works.

Bibliografiia bibliografii na sovremennom etape. Sbornik statei i bibliograficheskikh materialov.

This book contains a series of bibliographical essays on the history of bibliography in Russia. The most useful section for historians is the chapter, “Novye ukazateli, issledovaniia i obzory bibliographicheskikh posobii i spravochnykh izdanii, opublikovanye v 1987-1993 gg.” Many of these bibliographies are historical in nature, and this publication currently serves to cover the most recent years of Russian bibliographies. While the volume has a brief table of contents, there are no indices.

Historical Bibliographies, Catalogs, and Guides to Research
General’nyi alfavitnyi katalog knig na russkom iazyke (1725-1998)


This scanned copy of the card catalog of the Russian National Library is an invaluable tool for anyone planning a trip to St. Petersburg or trying to verify a specific title. It does require a bit of patience. As with the scanned catalogs of the Jagiellonian University Library or the Czech National Library, access is by “main entry,” i.e. cards are filed by author or corporate author. There is no subject access. In order to search this catalog , the user will enter a term on the search screen. The result returned will be a list of possible entry points for the catalog, rather like the tabs on index cards. Selecting one of these will position the user in a range of cards. The user must select the cards, by number and essentially “browse” the cards. Below is a sample entry from the catalog.

(Additional information and illustrations at link above)
 
My perception might be completely off but my understanding in reading about the "joint study history books" which is part of this project - is that entries are well annotated? It may be, they are using a format in this literature that we are not accustomed to in Western publications, especially if - "a mixed commission for studies" is involved?

I couldn't find any annotations, citations or references. There are some maps but without the source. They have an extensive list of "recommended literature" grouped by chapters though it's not clear whether it's "further reading" or literature which was used in this body of work. Even in the first volume dedicated to ancient history there is not a single book of an ancient historian in the list of the recommended literature. These are mostly books of other historians (mostly Soviet but also some English, French, Spanish and German).
 
I happened upon a site called Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-1940 (review)

This is their Mission statement:

Project MUSE Mission - Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.

Well, I'm neither "academic or scholarly" and I'm still trying to decipher what this is all about ...

"If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate' authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'."

(What's a - Shibboleth?) Needless to say, I got "You are not currently authenticated." (Which might be a blessing in disguise!)

Anyways, under the heading, "Journal of Cold War Studies - Stalin and the Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-1940 (review)" there is a brief excerpt (in English) of the content and they offer a pdf to an article on the subject, if you are authenticated.

I don't know, if this information is any help in getting a peek into the History Volumes, other than, purchasing them and translating the contents but maybe it offers a glimpse in checking out other brief excerpts in the books?
 
Even in the first volume dedicated to ancient history there is not a single book of an ancient historian in the list of the recommended literature. These are mostly books of other historians (mostly Soviet but also some English, French, Spanish and German).
А все "благодаря" Петру Первому, при котором содержимое всех хранилищ древних источников, которые располагались как правило в монастырях, было свезено в столицу и уничтожено. Остается надеяться на обнаружение полумифической "библиотеки Ивана Грозного". Кстати, может быть имело бы смысл поинтересоваться у C's на предмет существования этой самой "библиотеки" и возможного её местонахождения.

Translation
And all "thanks" to Peter the Great, in which the contents of all the vaults of ancient sources, which were usually located in monasteries, were taken to the capital and destroyed. We can only hope to find a half-mythical "Ivan the terrible library". By the way, maybe it would make sense to ask C's for the existence of this very "library" and its possible location.
 
World War II in archival documents (collection of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials)


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Under the paragraph № 4 "k" of the List of instructions for the implementation of the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on January 15, 2020 № Pr-113, the Federal Archival Agency with the participation of archival services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation will organize the preparation of a set of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials dedicated to the Second World War.

Based on information resources of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library of the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation, electronic copies of archival documents which spotlight the history, course and results of the Second World War will be placing on the Internet for a number of years.

Identification and digitization of documents are carried out on the basis of domestic, captured and foreign archival funds.

In the year of the 75th anniversary of the Victory, online access to the first part of the documentary complex dedicated to the history of the Second World War (January 1933 - August 31, 1939) has been opened. The materials disclose, in particular, the policy of appeasing Germany from the moment the Nazis came to power until the German attack on Poland.

In total, the first part of the project included more than 1700 archival documents, photographs, and newsreel fragments stored in federal and departmental archives. Almost half of them are published for the first time.

The documents highlight the most important events in the life of Europe in the 1930s, and above all the phasing out of the Third Reich of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the accelerated militarization of the country and the transition of the German leadership to a policy of active conquests on the European continent.

Already on February 3, 1933, immediately after coming to power, the new Chancellor of Germany A. Hitler, at a meeting with the leaders of the Reichswehr, delivered a speech where he outlined the Nazi programmatic guidelines for the “rescue” of Germany and the transformation of Europe under its leadership. In October 1933, the German delegation defiantly left the Geneva Conference on Disarmament and announced the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations. On January 26, 1934, a German-Polish non-aggression declaration was signed, which meant a warming of relations between the two neighboring states. At the same time, the establishment of German-Japanese contacts on an anti-Soviet basis began. Under these conditions, serious changes took place in the foreign policy orientation of the USSR. The Soviet Union abandoned the anti-Versailles line of foreign policy, acting as the defender of universal peace. France turned towards cooperation with the USSR: French diplomats initiated a discussion on the draft Eastern Pact - a multilateral treaty on security in Eastern Europe and negotiations on the conclusion of a Franco-Soviet mutual assistance treaty.

In January 1935, a plebiscite took place on the status of Saar Region, which was under the control of the League of Nations. As a result, the vast majority of the population of Saar spoke in favor of its accession to Germany. Two months later, on March 16, 1935, Hitler signed a decree on the introduction in the Third Reich of universal military service and the creation of mass armed forces, which was a violation of the military articles of the Treaty of Versailles. The further militarization of Germany was facilitated by the Anglo-German naval agreement of June 18, 1935. In the same year, fascist Italy began to expand its colonial possessions, having made a military invasion of the territory of Abyssinia, an independent state in East Africa.

The year 1936 was marked by a further increase in tension in Europe. On March 7, 1936 German troops entered the Rhine demilitarized zone. Thus, Germany violated the territorial clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. In the summer of 1936, after the start of the anti-government rebellion of the right forces, a civil war broke out in Spain. The USSR was the only country in Europe that provided comprehensive assistance to the legitimate republican government. At the same time, “Western democracies” preferred a policy of non-interference in Spanish affairs, while fascist Italy and Nazi Germany actually openly sided with the Spanish rebels, providing them with military support, which only intensified over time.

In November 1937 the German military-political leadership decided to move to territorial conquests in order to expand living space. Already in March 1938, Germany completed the Anschluss of Austria, after which preparations began for an attack on Czechoslovakia. During the Czechoslovak crisis, the USSR was ready to provide military assistance to the Czechoslovak Republic as a victim of German aggression. At the same time, Great Britain and France headed for the pacification of Germany and reaching a compromise agreement with her at the expense of Czechoslovakia. The apogee of this Anglo-French policy was the Munich Agreement of 1938, which provided for the transfer of the Third Reich of the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia. In addition to Germany, in the fall of 1938, Poland and Hungary took part in the dismemberment of the Czechoslovak state.

In March 1939, Germany, violating the Munich agreements, liquidated Czechoslovakia as a sovereign state. After the British declared independence of Poland, Hitler decided to prepare an attack on this country. In the spring and summer of 1939, with the growing threat of German expansion in Europe, Anglo-French-Soviet political and military negotiations were held with the aim of creating an anti-Hitler coalition. Not the least role in their failure in August 1939 was played by the position of the Polish leadership, which refused to let Soviet troops through its territory. In this difficult situation, the USSR was forced to negotiate with Germany, culminating in the signing of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact and a secret protocol.

The structure of the information resource is provided in accordance with the chronological principle, documents are grouped by year.

The materials are diverse in their composition, origin and authorship.

The project includes documents from the collections of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI). It contains decisions of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) ("special file") on the most important issues of foreign policy and international relations and relevant materials (memorandum reports, draft documents, etc.) from the collection of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) - Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It also includes a significant number of documents from the personal collection of J. V. Stalin (cipher telegrams of the Politburo members of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) to J. V. Stalin on foreign policy issues and reply cipher telegrams; cipher telegrams, newsletters, conversation records, memorandum reports of Soviet diplomats; intelligence materials, reports, and information of Soviet intelligence sent to J. V. Stalin and others). Documents of special interest are the materials of negotiations of military missions of the USSR, England, and France in August 1939 from the collection of K. E. Voroshilov, selected documents from the collections of V. M. Molotov, A. M. Kollontai, A. I. Mikoyan.

Documents of the Communist International (Comintern) archive (proclamations, resolutions, records of meetings of the Executive Committee of the Communist International Secretariat, letters, information materials, etc.) illustrate the reaction of the international communist and socialist movement and its leaders to events in Europe.

The Russian State Military Archive (RGVA), archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and the Federal Security Service (FSB) store documents of the Soviet military and foreign intelligence. Among them are intelligence materials (reports, bulletins, and messages of agents), documentary intelligence materials (translations of undercover personnel documents), intelligence reports, references, official and analytical notes, bulletins, special messages, and information.

The documents from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation are represented by cipher telegrams, memorandum reports, information letters from Soviet diplomats in the UK, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary to the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, records of their conversations with representatives of foreign military and foreign affairs agencies.

The main collection of Russian-language documents is complemented with trophy documents in foreign languages from the Russian State Military Archive: materials from French and German special services - analytical notes, reviews, reports, newsletters, intelligence reports, letters, as well as reports from military attaches, notes, memoranda and records of meetings of governments of several European countries.

Project organizers:
Federal Archival Agency of Russia
Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library

Project participants:

Historical and Documentary Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Registration and Archival Office of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
Archival Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Russian State Archive of Social and Political History
(RGASPI)
Russian State Military Archive (RGVA)
Russian State Archives of Film and Photo Documents (RGAKFD)
State Archives of the Russian Federation (GA RF)
Russian State Archive of Economics (RGAE)
Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire (AVP RI)
Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Federation (AVP RF)
Archive of the President of the Russian Federation (AP RF)
Archive of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (Archive of SVR)
Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (CA FSB)
Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (CA MO RF)

The project was prepared by:

A. N. Artizov (Head of the Federal Archival Agency of Russia), A. V. Yurasov (Deputy Head of the Federal Archival Agency of Russia), N. M. Barinova (Director of the Historical and Documentary Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), A. V. Vasiliev (Head of the Registration and Archival Office of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation), A. V. Vladimirov (Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation), E. A. Paderin (Head of the Archival Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation), A. K. Sorokin (director of RGASPI), V. P. Tarasov (director of RGVA), N. A. Kalantarova (director of RGAKFD), D. S. Agafonov (RGASPI), V. A. Artsybashev (RGVA), E. M. Grigoriev (RGASPI), E. V. Ivanova (Rosarchive), N.A. Kirillova (RGASPI), V.I. Korotaev (RGVA), L.I. Kudryavtseva (Federal Archival Agency of Russia), N. A. Myshov (RGVA), S. M. Rosenthal (RGASPI), A. I. Fedorova (RGASPI), A. V. Lukashin (RGASPI), T. L. Maskhulia (Presidential Library), L. V. Mitrofanova (Presidential Library), A. A. Sakaev (Presidential Library), M. V. Stegaeva (Presidential Library), A. V. Zaitsev (Presidential Library), M. V. Zueva (Presidential Library).

Articles
A.M. Filitov Munich Betrayal: Historical Truth and Contemporary Opinions
A.N. Artisov, S.V. Kudryashov 1939. From "Appeasement" to War

 
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Video (part 1 of 3) Intro begins with an idea familiar to forum readers: "The official version of human history is a construct of lies. We are in a state of collective amnesia. Let's free ourselves from the artificial matrix that has been imposed on us."

The narrator uses architecture/buildings as the scaffolding to support his theory, thus there is a lot of fascinating back stories, photographs and etchings of magnificent buildings from the "old world" systematically destroyed by various means, including World Fair/Exhibition grand halls that may've been more than quick-build tear-downs. His theory about the elites destroying all the old to expedite the "reset" (last one: the Industrial Revolution), is completely believable considering the same program has been unfolding these past two years (e.g. BLM pulling down statues, COVID, Biden's radical agenda and the brazen promise of a coming "Great Reset").

Part 1: Lifting the Veil

Part 2: The Destruction of the Old World

Part 3: The Mystery of the World Fairs

Index of Articles (Including transcripts, with photos, of the 3 videos above)

Nod to Fomenko: How Long Was the First Millennium?
 
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