Sent by Ruslania.com promptly from Helsinki, Finland.Description:"Russia and the independence of Finland: 1899-1920" is the result of the joint work of Finnish
and Russian historians. It contains more than a thousand documents (more than 42 % appear
for the first time in public) from the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the Russian State
Historical Archive, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, the Russian State Archive
of the Military Sea Fleet, the Russian State Military Archive, as well as from the archives of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - the Archive of the Russian Empire Foreign Policy and the Archive of
the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, the Presidential Archive of the Russian Federation and
the National Archives of Finland. Photo documents from Finnish museums and Russian archives and
libraries offer the reader a gallery of portraits and plot scenes. The publication is equipped with an
extensive scientific and reference apparatus and applications.
The second volume of the collection reveals the range and dynamics of the Russian political elite
views on the scope of Finland's independence. The provisions of the Council of Ministers and laws
adopted in 1908-1914 raised the wave of indignation in the Finnish Seim and the Senate, where there
also was no unanimity about relations with Russia For the first time, the reader can be acquainted with
the protocols of the Special Commission of P.N. Dumovo, the journals of the Special Meeting on Finnish
Affairs, the commission of N.N. Korevo, in the depths of which norms were developed that v'ould deprive
Finland of all signs of autonomy. The volume is based on the documents of the State Archive of the
Russian Federation, the Russian State Historical Archive aid the National Archive of Finland.