TOMSK, Dec 19 – RIA Tomsk. Scientists of Tomsk State University (TSU) create website devoted to history of Civil war in Siberia and the Far East in 2017; largest collection of newspapers and magazines of 1918-1920 from funds of the Scientific Library (SL) is basis of resource which will be available to a wide range of readers for the first time, press service of TSU reports.
It is specified, Siberia and the Far East were the main arena of opposition of white and red in 1918-1920. Each party sought to win round the population, including withperiodicals. Several hundreds of newspapers and magazines were in this territory in total. For creation of the website it is planned to digitize about two thousand copies of periodical press of that time which is stored in the fund.
"One of tasks of the project is identification and accounting of the editions which aren't studied before as their exact number still is known to nobody. We hope that the resource will attract interest of other libraries where similar collections are stored, and also will be able to unite researchers in this area", – the project manager Kirill Konev quoted in the message.
According to TSU, the Siberian press of the period of revolution and Civil war was available only to limited number of experts for a long time, after creation of the website it becomes available to a wide range of readers. Editions will be valuable sources for various cross-disciplinary researches about Siberia, in particular for studying of mechanisms of formation of public opinion.It is added, library workers have already digitized 40% of the collection. Future website, thanks to geoinformation layers, will allow to look at number of editions on the cities, for a certain period, on ideological accessory, to understand where "information war" between white and red developed.
The website is planned to be created in 2017 to the 100 anniversary of the October revolution. The project is carried out with assistance of the research center "Trans-Siberian Scientific Way" which task is to popularize information on the past and the present of Siberia.