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COLLECTIONS Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection
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Within the framework of the 1992 agreement between the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (Hoover), the State Archives Service of Russia (ROSARKHIV), and Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.* (Chadwyck-Healey) and the 1998 agreement between Hoover, the State Archives of the Russian Federation (GARF), and Chadwyck-Healey, as of March 2002 Hoover has received a total of 10,545 microfilm reels, each containing approximately 850 frames (pages) of the documents entitled "Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State." In the former Soviet Union and later in the Russian Federation, archival documents have been arranged into record groups according to the institution by which they were issued or received. These major groups, which sometimes include thousands of documents, are called in Russian fond (plural fondy). Within each fond the documents are generally divided into smaller groups called opisi (singular opis). Opisi are generally organized according to the internal structure of the corresponding institution, but sometimes opisi consist of documents relating to one subject. The Russian word opis has two meanings: (1) "a series of documents"; (2) "finding aid." Each opis "series of documents" is provided with a descriptive opis "finding aid." Out of a total of 9,307 reels, 8,841 contain documents and 466 contain finding aids to the fondy available at the Hoover Institution, as well as to some fondy available only in Russia. The documents and finding aids have come from three Russian archives: the Center for the Preservation of Contemporary Documentation (Tsentr khraneniia sovremennoi dokumentatsii - TsKhSD**), the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Most Recent History (Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniia i izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii - RTsKhIDNI***), and the State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii - GARF). * Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. has been acquired by Bell & Howell Company. Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet state : Microfilm Collection, 1903-1991 TsKhSD/RGANI Fond 6. The Committee for Party Control, 1934-1966 Fond 89. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial, 1918-1992
This guide describes the documents submitted to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation for the trial of the Communist Party. This unique collection came into being as a result of President Yeltsin's decision to outlaw the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. For the trial, government prosecutors drew on a wide range of documents emanating from the highest organs of the Communist Party and the Soviet state. Covering the period 1919-1992, the documents were selected to prove that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union showed a complete disregard for human rights and international law. They constitute the most revealing collection of documents of the Soviet Union to have emerged since its collapse. The guide describes more than 3,000 documents (10,000 pages) reproduced on 24 reels of microfilm. They document a wide range of subjects, including Stalin's purges, the creation and operation of forced labor camps, the financing of foreign communist parties, the activities of organs of internal security, such as the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) and the Committee for National Security (KGB), relations with ethnic minorities in the former USSR, espionage and subversion of other governments, the USSR's role in postwar Eastern Europe, and many other topics. The documents were drawn from a variety of sources; brought together in a single collection, Fond 89 is now a distinct record group in the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History. The guide is provided with a classified index and an index of names. Russian finding aids to TsKhSD/RGANI's fondy 4,5, 6, 8, and 89 were also microfilmed within the framework of the Russian Microfilm Project. RTsKhIDNI/RGASPI Fond 17. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1903-1965; 1971 Fondy 34-59, 337, 447, 572, 582, 586, 592, 593, 604, 620, 628, 646. GARF 1. Fond R-393. The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR, 1917-1930 2. Fond R-4042. The Main Administration of the Places of Confinement of the Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the RSFSR (NKVD RSFSR, 1922-1930) 3. Fond R-9414. The Main Administration of the Places of Confinement of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1930-1960 4. Fond R-9479. Fourth Special Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR 5. Fond R-1005. Supreme Tribunal under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK); Supreme Court of the RSFSR, 1918-1967 6. Fond R-7521. Presidium of the USSR Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), 1925-1937 7. Fond R-7863. USSR Supreme Soviet 8. Fond r-8409. Peshkova E.L.: Committee for Aid to Political Prisoners, 1928-1938 9. Fond R-8419. Political Red Cross (Moscow), 1927-1939 10. Fond R-5446. Council of People's Commissar (Sovnarkom) of the USSR, 1922-1958 Russian-language finding aids to GARF's 2,150 fondy have been also microfilmed onto 387 reels for the Hoover Institution. These finding aids allow scholars to gain inside knowledge of GARF's holdings and to prepare for their research in Russian archives more efficiently. For additional information please contact Lora Soroka, assistant archivist for Russian projects. |
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