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The article presents a historiographic review of "Siberia: XX Century". This interuniversity collection of research papers was published in Kemerovo in 1997–2007. Based on standard research methods and special historical and historiographic principles, the authors analyzed the periodical as a complex historiographic source. The quantitative analysis made it possible to calculate the ratio of the special issues, to assess the editorial board and authors, to describe the research subjects, etc. The semantic analysis was based on the content analysis, which also revealed to what degree the authors of the journal participated in the historical discourse. The paper features retrospective and prospective analyzes of the main research works of the leading Siberian scientists published in "Siberia: XX Century". The research objective was to identify the patterns of the current historiographic situation based on the state of knowledge of the key historical processes in Siberia.

The research features public records concerning the Social-Democratic organizations of the Far East (Russia), stored in the collection of illegal publications at the Center for Social and Political History, the rare book section. The collection contains archival documents originating from the two largest Social-Democratic groups of the Far East located in Blagoveshchensk and Vladivostok. The records include: various reports, corporate charters, resolutions of party meetings, mandates to elected officials, and small newspapers. Publications issued by the Far Eastern social democratic organizations were mostly leaflets printed on a typewriter or published on a hectograph or mimeograph. Some leaflets were printed in actual print shops of private publishing houses or in handicraft illegal print shops. Most of the documents were previously unstudied. However, they belong to the category of particularly valuable and unique historical documents of cultural, historical and scientific value for the study of the Socio-Political movement of the Russian East. The author believes that the public records stored at the Center for Social and Political History, in combination with other archival data, may cast light on the state of the history of Social-Democratic underground in the Far East, its formation and development.

The documentation, proceeding from social-democratic organizations of Primorye during the revolution of 1905–1907 is considered and political reaction, presented in the Collection of Illegal Publications of the Center for Social and Political History (CSPI) at the State Public Historical Library (GPIB). Documentary collections of the library are equated to archival collections and are an important component of the Archive Fund of the Russian Federation, and the documentation contained in them, as a rule, belongs to the category of particularly valuable or unique. The Center for Social and Political History of the State Public Historical Library contains in its collection illegal publications of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), including publications of local organizations and groups. Primorye organizations include 13 documents, which are charters, cash reports, conference resolutions, mandates to deputies, reports on the status and activities, political proclamations. Most of the documents come from the Vladivostok organization of the RSDLP – officially approved by the leading organization of the Primorsky district of the RSDLP, which included all the Social Democratic groups of the Primorsky region. The aim of the article is to reconstruct the organizational structure, status and activities of the organizations of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in the Primorsky region of the Amur governor general-governorate and to determine the functional role and significance of the historical documentation presented in the department of the rare book of the CSPI, according to the surviving historical sources. Being historical sources and performing a retrospective function, during the period of its operation the collection documents carried social, political, ideological, and regulatory functions. Their importance for studying the social and political movement in the Far East, Siberia and the country as a whole can not be overestimated.

The paper discusses the fate of the Siberian lawyer originating from the family of townspeople who graduated fromMoscowUniversity. In 1917, he reached the peak of his career – becoming a State employee, Chairman of Barnaul district court. The overthrow inSiberiaby the Soviet authorities and the establishment of the anti-Bolshevik regimes led him to the post of Assistant Minister for justice. There, he sought to instill legality and legal order inSiberiaas well. The entry of the Red Army into the region interrupted this process. For 23 years until his death A. P. Morozov was excommunicated from his profession that proved unnecessary for the new state formation.

The paper examines the impact of World War I on the social-democratic underground in Tobolsk and Akmola region. Particular attention is paid to the processes that led to the “decay” of the political underground and the underground’s move to legal activities. Specific historical data and key findings are based on materials of archives, introduced in the scientific use for the first time.

The paper studies the reflection of the socio-political movement of the early 20th century in the documents preserved in museums and archives of small towns in Eastern Siberia, which were not province center. The author shows the importance of introducing police and local governments records as well as special collections of archives and museums to the scientific community.

The paper addresses the reflection of the underground socialist movement in the early 20th century Siberia in thedocuments that survived in the archives of the Volga region. The importance of the Volga region’s archives documenta-tion for the integral study of the Siberian socialist underground is revealed. The historical documents analysed in the paper are introduced into scientific use for the first time.