Thank you for putting this together. This is very helpful. When I click on the link to the requetes.com website, it appears that the website doesn't exist anymore and a new website has that address. Do you have a link to the archive of the website?
I'm writing a sci-fantasy doorstopper where my hero crash-lands in the Russian Caucasus and begins his journey after gaining helpful information from a local Nart goddess. He then travels through several neolithic sites in Georgia and Turkey, gaining enemies or allies based on local myths. There is precious little translated information available in English, so I have to rely on archeology journal articles in Russian, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijan languages, foreign-language newspaper and media reports of "hey, this local scientist found some new thingamabob at X-archeological site", and obscure group-chats posted on YouTube between scientists who speak in English as they are from different countries, but their accents are REAL heavy so it requires intense concentration. I've learned to never assume what kind of clothing, weaponry, housing, social structures, social customs, or even food historical people eat, but to go to original sources as much as possible. I despise Google, but Google Translate and AI-generated subtitles in English are a real game-changer insofar as doing research and adding realism to the story.
I've tried digging up pro-Franco materials on the Spanish Civil War to enrich my kids' education in mom's "Skipped In School" supplemental schooling, but everything related to WHY the Spanish people rejected the Bolsheviks and supported a return to traditional values has been erased from the English language history sources and outright ignored. The Bolsheviks committed atrocities, but its hard to find more than a passing mention, and even that is now being erased.
The material on the Requetés website will be invaluable regarding the social order embraced by a plurality of those who rejected Bolshevism. Regarding the Spanish Red Terror, the very best single source on that is Carroll's The Last Crusade: Spain 1936, which focuses upon the pre-war environment through the summer of 1936, i.e. the lead up to the declaration of the Crusade
Thank you for putting this together. This is very helpful. When I click on the link to the requetes.com website, it appears that the website doesn't exist anymore and a new website has that address. Do you have a link to the archive of the website?
I knew this would happen! Thanks for the head's up. It's available on archive sites:
https://archive.is/www.requetes.com
Any consideration of Fraud y Violencia? I will translate/read/slog through it someday. Payne reviews it here: paralalibertad.org/1936-fraude-y-violencia/
I didn't include that book in the bibliography as I did not read it, but Payne is an honest man and I trust his assessment.
I'm writing a sci-fantasy doorstopper where my hero crash-lands in the Russian Caucasus and begins his journey after gaining helpful information from a local Nart goddess. He then travels through several neolithic sites in Georgia and Turkey, gaining enemies or allies based on local myths. There is precious little translated information available in English, so I have to rely on archeology journal articles in Russian, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijan languages, foreign-language newspaper and media reports of "hey, this local scientist found some new thingamabob at X-archeological site", and obscure group-chats posted on YouTube between scientists who speak in English as they are from different countries, but their accents are REAL heavy so it requires intense concentration. I've learned to never assume what kind of clothing, weaponry, housing, social structures, social customs, or even food historical people eat, but to go to original sources as much as possible. I despise Google, but Google Translate and AI-generated subtitles in English are a real game-changer insofar as doing research and adding realism to the story.
I've tried digging up pro-Franco materials on the Spanish Civil War to enrich my kids' education in mom's "Skipped In School" supplemental schooling, but everything related to WHY the Spanish people rejected the Bolsheviks and supported a return to traditional values has been erased from the English language history sources and outright ignored. The Bolsheviks committed atrocities, but its hard to find more than a passing mention, and even that is now being erased.
The material on the Requetés website will be invaluable regarding the social order embraced by a plurality of those who rejected Bolshevism. Regarding the Spanish Red Terror, the very best single source on that is Carroll's The Last Crusade: Spain 1936, which focuses upon the pre-war environment through the summer of 1936, i.e. the lead up to the declaration of the Crusade