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[June P. Farris]

There is a "Nakanunie" (pre-1917 spelling) that was published in London from 1899-1902.

The British Library has holdings as well as several U.S. libraries.
Sorry Chicago doesn't have it, so I can't look for the article for you.
Best, June Farris

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On Jun 5, 2014, at 5:38 PM, "Ben Phillips" <ben.phillips at GMAIL.COM<mailto:ben.phillips at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:

Dear SEELANGers,

Working on Petr Kropotkin's lichnyi fond in Moscow's GARF recently, I came across a draft of a letter written by Kropotkin to the editor of a journal entitled Nakanune on the historical significance of Decembrism (1129.1.566, Письмо редактору журнала "Накануне" об историческом значении восстания декабристов). With the exception of the year (1900), the letter is undated, and, it being a handwritten draft, the editor's name is illegible, as is much of the rest of the document. Since my research deals with images of Siberian exile in the pre-revolutionary emigration, the letter is something I would very much like to read, and so I'm trying to find a published version.

The problem is that I can find no trace of any journal of that name having existed in 1900 in any of the Lenin Library catalogues nor in the online RNB catalogue. My first thought is that, given its title and the Kropotkin connection, this Nakanune is likely to have been an émigré publication and thus may either a) be known to posterity under a different title, since these publications did rename themselves quite frequently, or b) might otherwise simply have been another piece of ephemera from the enormous pre-revolutionary émigré press, a journal that ran to perhaps two or three editions and then disappeared without ever having been catalogued. Neither seems that likely to me: major library catalogues are normally very good at noting publications' name changes, and would someone of Kropotkin's stature really have had the time or inclination to write to such a minor journal?

If someone here could offer either an explanation, some insight, or some clues on where I might go about searching for the journal otherwise, I'd be very grateful.

Many thanks,

Ben Phillips
UCL SSEES
16 Taviton Street
London
United Kingdom
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020 7679 8700
b.phillips.12 at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:b.phillips.12 at ucl.ac.uk>
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