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Literary: The World Crisis: Maps, 1914-[c.1921]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/5/2

Scope and Contents

Comprising a hand drawn map of battle lines in Russia (18 Nov 1919); a printed map of the Balkan States showing frontiers (published by the Royal Geographical Society in the Geographical Journal, 1914); a printed map of assumed distribution of the Soviet Army in Russia (27 Jan 1920, printed on top of a printed map Admiralty War Staff map, March 1915); a printed map of battle lines and locations of armies in Eastern Europe including Poland and Ukraine [possibly showing the Soviet-Polish War of autumn 1918-Mar 1921]; a printed French map of Perse [Persia/Iran] (undated); and a list of place names which were spelt differently in a report and on a map.

With a folder labelled "Russian History Atlas" [by Martin Gilbert].

Dates

  • Creation: 1914-[c.1921]

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.

This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.

Extent

1 folder(s) (7 items)

8 folio(s)

External Documents

Custodial History

Most items are stamped "The Chartwell Trust" so were part of the Churchill (Chartwell) papers which were stamped at the Public Records Office in 1961-1964.

[Kept by Martin Gilbert as source material for his 'Atlas of Russian History', published 1972].

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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