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Twelve
Years of Cooperation with the Russian Archives,
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Archives
of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection
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of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection Fond 89. Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial Joint Museum of Russian Culture-Hoover Institution Archives Project web site Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Records |
Finding aid for Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection 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. TsKhSD/RGANI Fond
6. The Committee for Party Control, 1934-1966 Fond
89. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial, 1918-1992
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. Finding aid for Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection For additional information about the archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State please contact Lora Soroka, assistant archivist for Russian projects. |
Fond
89. Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial
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of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection Fond 89. Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial Joint Museum of Russian Culture-Hoover Institution Archives Project web site Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Records |
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. For additional information please contact Lora Soroka, assistant archivist for Russian projects. |
Joint
Museum of Russian Culture-Hoover Institution Archives Project Web Site
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of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection Fond 89. Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial Joint Museum of Russian Culture-Hoover Institution Archives Project web site Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Records |
The
Hoover Institution has launched a web site to conclude a National Endowment
for the Humanities grant to process and microfilm archival collections
of the Museum of Russian Culture.
The Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco was founded in 1948 as a repository for documents, books, serials, and artifacts relating to Russian history and culture. It has acquired significant and unique materials relating primarily to the history of the Russian post-1917 emigration, émigré life from 1920 to 1945, prerevolutionary Russia and the revolutionary and civil war periods, displaced persons, and Russian organizations abroad. In 1999, the Hoover Institution received a grant from NEH for a two-year project to process and microfilm the museum's more-significant archival holdings. The primary goal of the project was to preserve these collections and make them available in microfilm form to scholars in the reading room of the Hoover Institution Archives. As a result of the project, 85 collections, consisting of 475 manuscript boxes of materials, were organized, described, and microfilmed. At the conclusion of the project (summer 2001), use copies of the microfilms were made available to researchers in the Hoover Institution Archives reading room.
To facilitate access to the collections and make finding aids available
online for researchers around the world, a web
site has been created that provides an overview of the project and
a list of the 85 collections with links to detailed finding aids. It also
features biographical sketches and photographs of 51 of the collections.
The site offers not only archival information but pictures and postcards
depicting the life of Russians abroad as well as life in prerevolutionary
Russia. The site provides contact and access information for researchers
who want to work with the collections in the Hoover Institution Archives.
Researchers have the opportunity to browse the site or search its content
for a particular organization or name. This bilingual English/Russian
site is intended for use by the general public and researchers in the
United States, Russia, and other countries.
In the fall of 2002 Elena S. Danielson, Director of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, met with Vladimir P. Kozlov, the head of the Federal Archival Service of Russia (Rosarkhiv) and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and his colleagues and presented them with 2,015 microfilm reels containing 21 collections of the Hoover Institution Archives and 85 collections from the Museum of Russian Culture in San Francisco, to be held in the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF). According
to the agreement between the Rosarkhiv and the Hoover Institution, the
microfilms were to be made accessible in the reading room of GARF within
two months of their delivery. |
Radio
Free Europe/Radio Liberty Records
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of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection Fond 89. Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial Joint Museum of Russian Culture-Hoover Institution Archives Project web site Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Records |
According to an agreement announced in October 2000, the Hoover Institution will house the broadcast archives and corporate records of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). The collection, consisting of some 80,000 tapes and 10.5 million pages of documents, covers the period from the creation of the radios in the early 1950s up to their move from Munich to Prague in June 1995. The Hoover Institution will make the collection available to scholars in stages, after it has been processed by archivists. The Public Affairs section is the first scheduled to be opened for research. To check on the status of the collection, please contact the project archivist, Anatol Shmelev or visit the RFE/RL Records web site, which features significant documents from the collection and serves as an educational resource on the Cold War and the post-communist transition period. RFE and RL, created independently in the 1950s and merged in the 1970s, played the role of a surrogate free press for the nations behind the Iron Curtain. Heavily jammed from the day they went on the air until the late 1980s, RFE and RL nonetheless served as an important source of information for the peoples of the Soviet bloc. Although funded by the U.S. government, initially covertly and later openly, RFE/RL differed from other Western international broadcast services in their focus on providing audience members with objective information not only on the West but also on occurrences within the bloc. As a result, the materials in this collection present a unique historical record of every major event, movement, and personality in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe throughout the cold war and during the first years of the transition to democracy. The broadcast
archives consist of tapes, transcripts, and thousands of pages of additional
documents generated by the various broadcast services of RFE and RL. The
corporate records include the administrative files of the offices of the
president, executive vice president, RFE director, RL director, New York
Program Center, Public Affairs Office, and other operating units.
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