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Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii (RGANI)

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Finding Aids —  Published — General:

Archives of Russia (2000), pp. 264-69; Arkhivy Rossii (1997), pp. 205-208; Byvsh. arkhivy KPSS (1998), pp. 19-22; Fed. arkhivy NSA (1994), pp. 97-98; CWIHP Bulletin, no 2, 1992, p. 15.

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• Guides
• History of Archive

b-610. Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii: Putevoditel'. Vyp. 1. Compiled by L.V. Charskaia, M.I. Kiselev, N.G. Toshchakova and G.V. Zharnikova. Edited by N.G. Tomilina. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2004. 240 p. [Rosarkhiv; RGANI] “Spravochno-informatsionnye materialy po dokumentam Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva noveishei istorii(RGANI).” (Lib: DLC; MH).
Electronic edition: http://guides.rusarchives.ru/guides/3...

b-615. Afiani, Vitalii Iur'evich. “Publikatorskaia deiatel'nost' Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva noveishei istorii (1991–2001).” Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 2001 god (2002), pp. 10–24. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Provides a few details about the history of the archive and CPSU recordkeeping practices and proceeds to survey the documentary publications by TsKhSD/RGANI archivists since the transfer of the records to Rosarkhiv in 1991 with extensive bibliographic footnotes.

b-616. Bondareva, Tat'iana Ivanovna. “Tsentru khraneniia sovremennoi dokumentatsii—5 let.” Otechestvennye arkhivy, 1997, no. 1, pp. 42–54. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

An interview with the director and several archivists honoring the fifth anniversary of TsKhSD. Provides considerable background concerning problems and progress in arrangement, description, and declassification.

b-617. Usikov, Rem Andreevich. “K sozdaniiu Tsentra khraneniia sovremennoi dokumentatsii.” Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, 1992, no. 2, pp. 198–202. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A brief survey about the organization and holdings of the archive on the occasion of its opening to the public by the then director.

b-618. Mironenko, Sergei Vladimirovich. “Prezentatsiia: Tsentr khraneniia sovremennoi dokumentatsii.” Otechestvennye arkhivy, 1992, no. 3, pp. 3. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

A brief survey of the organization of the new center at the time of its opening by its then deputy director.

Finding Aids —  Specialized:

Categories:
• Microform Collections
• Documentation of Divisions of the CC CPSU

b-622. Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Catalogue of Finding Aids and Documents. 4th ed. [Cambridge, UK]: Chadwyck-Healey, 2004. xviii, 89 p. [Rosarkhiv; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace] (Lib: CSt-H; DLC; MH).
Electronic edition: https://media2.proquest.com/documents...
(Also listed as b–16 and b–552)
        3rd ed.: [Cambridge, UK]: Chadwyck-Healey, 2002. xviii, 90 p. [Rosarkhiv; Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace]
        Electronic ed.: https://www.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/faculti...
        1st ed.: 1995. xix, 88 p. with Supplement: January 1996. vi, 10 p.
        Russian version of 1st ed.: Arkhivy KPSS i sovetskogo gosudarstva: Katalog opisei i dokumentov. [Cambridge, UK], 1995. 85 p.
        Introduction by Jana Howlett available electrocally: https://www.proquest.com/products-ser....

The opisi for only one fond, the Committee for Party Control (fond 6, opisi 1–4) in RGANI (TsKhSD) were filmed under the Rosarkhiv-Hoover project, as listed in the published catalogue. A supplemental package is available reproducing most of the documents from fond 89, the special collection of recently declassified documents (over 3,000 documents), predominantly from the 1992 trial of the Communist Party. Included on the microfilms is a copy of all of the perechni (opisi) of the documents in that fond. For the more detailed English-language catalogue for those documents in fond 89 see b–624.
        CONTACT: Updated information is available from ProQuest Information and Learning Company, the successor company to Chadwyck-Healey: http://www.proquest.co.uk. Additional information about finding aids to some of the materials is available at the Hoover Institution: http://www.hoover.org/; E-mail: [email protected]; phone: (650) 723-3563; fax: (650) 725-3445.

b-623. Guide to the Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection, 1993–1996. (Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State: Microfilm Collection). Compiled by L. Soroka. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Archives, 2000. (Also listed as b–17, and b–553).

Provides a survey of the Hoover-Rosarkhiv microfilm collection noting the fonds in RGANI from which series of files were filmed. More detailed catalogues are in preparation, some of which are already available to researchers at the Hoover Institution.

b-624. Fond 89: Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial. Guide to the Microfilm Collection in the Hoover Institution Archives. Compiled by L. Soroka. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Archives, 2001. 500 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).
        Russian version: Arkhivy Kremlia i Staroi ploshchadi. Dokumenty po “delu KPSS”: Annotirovannyi spravochnik dokumentov, predstavlennykh v Konstitutsionnyi sud Rossiiskoi Federatsii po “delu KPSS.” Compiled by I.I. Kudriavtsev. Edited by V.P. Kozlov. Novosibirsk: “Sibirskii khronograf,” 1995. 325 p. [Rosarkhiv] (Lib: DLC; IU; MH) (Also listed as c–7).
        Earlier serial ed.: Arkhivy Kremlia i Staroi ploshchadi. Ser. I. Spravochno-informatsionnye materialy: Spravochnik po dokumentam, predstavlennym v Konstitutsionnyi sud Rossiiskoi Federatsii po “delu KPSS.” 4 issues. Moscow, 1993–1995. “Arkhivno-informatsionnyi biulleten' (Prilozhenie to Istoricheskii arkhiv),” nos. 1/2–6. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH[inc]).

An item-level inventory of the miscellaneous collection of copies of 3,615 declassified documents that were released to the Constitutional Court from files of the Presidential Archive (AP RF), the KGB, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other repositories, including RGANI (TsKhSD) itself, which now are deposited in fond 89. The Hoover Institution English-language present catalogue covers all 76 opisi in the collection. The earlier Russian-language editions cover approximately two-thirds of the documents in the collection (through opis' 52). Neither version provides archival references to the original documents, even those in TsKhSD itself. The 1995 Russian edition includes cumulative name and subject indexes from the earlier serial editions. Most of the documents themselves and the typescript opisi (perechni) are now available in a microfilm edition from ProQuest Information and Learning Company, the successor company to Chadwyck-Healey (see b–622); individual files and documents in some opisi were withheld from the microfilms and have still not been declassified.

b-625. Kudriavtsev, Ivan Ivanovich. “Dokumenty Sekretariata i Politbiuro TsK KPSS v TsKhSD.” Otechestvennye arkhivy, 1993, no. 2, pp. 82–90. (Lib: DLC; IU; MH).

Describes and characterizes some of the declassified documents in RGANI (TsKhSD) from different fonds, including the collection of copies from the Presidential Archive and other sources resulting from the deliberations of the Constitutional Court against the CPSU (fond 89).

b-628. The Cold War and the Central Committee. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm, 200?. “The Russian Archives.”
        Series 1: Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties (International Department), 1953–1957. 126 reels.
        Series 2: The General Department of the Central Committee, 1953–1966. 118 reels.
        Series 3: Congresses of the Communist Party of the Soviey Union, 1955–1986. [Fond 2, opisi 1, 3, 5]. 196 reels and 701 fiche.
        Series 4: Plenums of the Central Committee of the CPSU, 1941–1990. [Fond 1, opisi 2–9]. 181 reels and 656 fiche.

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b-629. The Departmental Records of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1953–1966: Part 1: USSR and the Soviet Republics. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm, 2004. 448 reels (including Index reel). “The Russian Archives.”

The collection of declassified documents from fond 5 (“Departmental Records of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union”) consists of documents from different sections of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, which in the 1950s and 1960s supervised Party development work, ideology, propaganda, science, education, culture, and agriculture. See more details at: http://www.cengage.com/search/product....

b-630. The Departmental Records of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1953–1966: Part 2: Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Microfilm, 2004. 223 reels. “The Russian Archives.”

Continued the collection of declassified documents from fond 5 (see above). See more details at: http://www.cengage.com/search/product....

b-634. Otdel vysshikh uchebnykh zavedenii TSK KPSS. 1953–1966: Spravochnik: (Annotirovannye opisi). Compiled by E.A. Bolotina, L.V. Charskaia and A.I. Dergachev. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2009. 255 p. “Spravochno-informatsionnye materialy po dokumentam Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva noveishei istorii(RGANI).”

b-635. Otdel nauki TsK KPSS. 1953–1966: Spravochnik: (Annotirovannye opisi). Compiled by L.V. Charskaia, I.V. Kazarina, M.I. Kiselev and L.A. Velichanskaia. Edited by M.I. Prozumenshchikov. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2006. 400 p. [Rosarkhiv; RGANI] “Spravochno-informatsionnye materialy po dokumentam Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva noveishei istorii(RGANI).”

b-636. Otdel kul'tury TsK KPSS, 1953–1966: Spravochnik: (Annotirovannye opisi). Compiled by L.V. Charskaia, L.I. Kireeva, M.I. Kiselev and N.G. Toshchakova. Edited by V.I. Afiani. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2004. 296 p. [Rosarkhiv; RGANI] “Spravochno-informatsionnye materialy po dokumentam Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva noveishei istorii(RGANI).” (Lib: MH).

b-637. Otdel TsK KPSS po sviaziam s inostrannymi kompartiiami, 1953–1957: Annotirovannyi spravochnik. Compiled by E.S. Afanas'eva, V.I. Afiani, M.I. Prozumenshchikov, et al. Edited by N.G. Tomilina. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1999. 312 p. [Rosarkhiv; RGANI] “Spravochno-informatsionnye materialy po dokumentam Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva noveishei istorii(RGANI).” (Lib: DLC; MH).

An inventory of 508 recently declassified files of the CC CPSU Division for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties, from fond 5 (Apparat TsK KPSS), opis' 28, covering primarily the years 1953–1957. The introduction explains the structure of the Division with its various sectors for different countries and international organizations and explains the types of materials encountered in the documents. Includes name and geographical indexes, and a chart indicting the chronological coverage of files for different sectors each year.