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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-201Last update of repository: 22 August 2019Gosudarstvennyi muzei politicheskoi istorii Rossii (GMPIR)Holdings Total: 18th–21st cc. fond of documentary materials—ca. 100,000 units (early 19th c.–1990s); biographical fond—2,584 units (early 19th c.–1990s); prints—ca. 55,000 (19th–20th cc.); photographs—ca. 120,000 (1878—“2000s) The rich archival collections of the museum, constituting part of the Division of Fonds, contain materials relating to the social and revolutionary movement in Russia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are documents (originals and/or copies) from the Third Department of His Imperial Majesty's Personal Chancery for Surveillance (Tret'e Otdelenie Sobstvennoi Ego Imp. Velichestva Kantseliarii po nadzoru) (the imperial secret police until 1880); court records of political trials; documents on the activity of the “Liberation of Labor” (“Osvobozhdenie truda”) Group led by G.V. Plekhanov; various writings and artistic works by revolutionaries; financial accounts of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDSP) committees, letters written by revolutionaries including A.M. Kollontai, V.P. Nogin, and N.I. Podvoiskii; resolutions passed at conferences of the food commissars (prodkomissary); and lists of those who worked in the food requisition brigades (prodotriady). There are the personal papers of some of the people who took part in the revolutionary movement, such as N.E. Burenin (with letters of Maksim Gor'kii, 1925–1927), A.V. Panaeva-Kartseva, and K.M. Ots, together with the archive of the Fine Arts Society (Obshchestvo iziashchnykh iskusstv). Among archival collections are letters written during the blockade and from the front line during World War II and letters and telegrams sent to the Presidium of the Twenty-Second Congress of the CPSU. The fond of biographical materials includes autobiographies, biographies, employment references, questionnaires, testimonials, party cards, identity cards for delegates, credentials issued to those attending Party Congresses and Conferences, and archive information reports. There are also memoirs (including sound recordings) from participants in the“People's Will” (Narodnaia Volia) Movement; political prisoners sentenced to labor camps; participants in the revolutionary movement, the Civil War, and the Second World War; Party and Young Communist League (Komsomol) veterans; prominent Soviet and foreign Party leaders, state and public figures; and ordinary workers. Photographs include portraits of revolutionaries; pictures of the events of the February and October Revolutions in Petrograd; group photographs of military commanders, officers and soldiers in the Red Army; newsreels of the postwar period; and photographs of socio-political events. |
