The Civil War in the ego-documents of the participants of the White movement in Siberia

The article is devoted to the analysis of documents of personal origin (memoirs and diaries) as historical sources reflecting the history of the Civil War (1918–1922) in Siberia, the authors of which were participants in the White movement. These sources in the article are designated by the general term «ego-documents», which in the 21<sup>st</sup> century has become generally accepted in the social sciences and humanities. Documentary flow (DF) of publications containing ego-documents was identified to address the research objectives. It is based on materials from the largest regional bibliographic database (DB) «Nauchnaya Sibirika: priroda, istoriya, ekonomika, kultura, nauka Sibiri i Dalnego Vostoka» generated by The State Public Scientific Technological Library SB RAS (GPNTB SO RAN), as well as additional data from other authoritative sources. The purpose of the article is to characterize the DP ego-documents published in the post-Soviet period. The documentary stream also includes historiographical publications on the study of ego-documents. A steady trend of increasing publications of ego-documents has been identified, especially in the first two decades of the 21st century. It is noted that the social status of the authors ofego-documents is quite high. These are mostly white officers, a third of whom are representatives of the generals. The presence in the documentary stream of publications of ego-documents of ordinary participants in the White movement can be considered as a trend. It is emphasized that for historian-researchers the optimal combination is the availability of printed publications with full texts on the Internet, on websites. At the same time, sites that have search services are valuable. It is concluded that it is necessary to present text files of all ego-documents about the White movement in the Internet space. The novelty of the research: for the first time, the documentary flow of memoirs and diaries (published in 1990–2023) by participants in the White movement in Siberia during the Russian Civil War was identified and comprehensively studied.