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collection: Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi
arkhiv noveishei istorii - RGANI)
XX843
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Title: Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet state microfilm collection:
Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei
istorii - RGANI)
Date (inclusive): 1903-1990
Collection Number: XX843
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
1011 microfilm reels
(151.7 linear feet)
Abstract: Relates to political conditions in the Soviet Union from
1917 to 1991. Filmed from finding aids and holdings dating from 1903 to 1991 of the
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv noveisheĭ istorii.
Contributor:
Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo
Soi͡uza.
Collection open for research.
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[Identification of item], original located in RGANI, [Fond number, Opis number, Delo
number], Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet state microfilm collection, [Reel
number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To
determine if this has occurred, find the collection in Stanford University's online catalog
at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/
. Materials have been added to the collection if
the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number of boxes listed
in this finding aid.
Location of Original Materials
The original documents are located in three Russian archives:
- -Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv noveisheĭ istorii - RGANI);
- -Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv sot͡sial'no-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI);
- and
- -State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat͡sii - GARF).
Portions or the entirety of the microfilm collection may be found at the following
institutions in addition to the Hoover Institution: The Library of Congress, Grinnell
College, Harvard University, John Hopkins University, University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill, Ohio University, University of Washington, University of Melbourne Australia, Glasgow
University United Kingdom, Bavarian State University, Germany, and Hokkaido University,
Japan.
The microfilms containing only the Russian language
opisi or
finding aids may be found at the following institutions: University of Illinois, Indiana
University, Columbia University, and New York University.
Scope and Content of the Microfilm Collection
This collection concerns political conditions in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. The
documents come from three Russian archives. Material was selected for microfilming based on
two criteria: (1) records of the highest policy-making units of the Communist Party were the
priority; and (2) record series were filmed in their entirety, rather than selecting only
particular files or documents (except for some of the Gulag material in GARF)
Fond R-9414).
To locate material in the collection, it helps to know that archival documents in the
former Soviet Union, and later in the Russian Federation, are arranged in record groups
according to the institution that issued or received them. 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; and (2) a finding aid. Each
opis "series of documents" is provided with a descriptive
opis "finding aid." Each
opis "series of documents"
is further organized into files called dela (singular delo) that contain the documents.
Out of a total of 11,818 microfilm reels, 11,349 reels contain documents and 469 contain
finding aids to the
fondy available at the Hoover Institution,
as well as to some
fondy available only in Russia. Each reel of
microfilm contains approximately 850 pages, or frames.
The microfilm reel numbers consist of two parts separated by a period, for example 3.427.
The first numerical segment is a 1, 2, or 3, identifying the Russian archive source; 1 is
RGANI, 2 is RGASPI, and 3 is GARF. The second segment, which is sequentially numbered
starting with 1, represents a specific microfilm reel number for that Russian archive.
Scope and Content of the RGANI Records
Materials described in this document are from the Russian State Archive of Contemporary
History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv noveisheĭ istorii - RGANI).
Finding Aids to
Fondy 4, 5, 6, 8, and 89 at RGANI (15 reels).
These Russian-language finding aids were created by RGANI to describe documents in fondy
4-6, 8, and 89. Only the documents in
fondy 6 (
opisi 1-6) and 89 are available on microfilm at the Hoover
Archives.
The documents of
Fond 6 include materials from the Party
Control Commission of the TsK VKP(b), 1934-1952; the Party Control Committee of the TsK
KPSS, 1952-1962; and the Party Commission of the TsK KPSS, 1962-1966.
The records of
Fond 89, Communist Party of the Soviet Union on
Trial records, 1918-1992, consist of documents submitted to the Constitutional Court of the
Russian Federation for the trial of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The collection is organized by the name of the Russian archive that holds the original
materials. There are three finding aids for the collection, one for each one of the Russian
Archives:
- -Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv noveisheĭ istorii - RGANI);
- -Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv sot͡sial'no-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI);
- and
- -State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyĭ arkhiv Rossiĭskoĭ Federat͡sii - GARF).
Within Russian institutional archive, the materials are organized into two groups: (1)
fondy (record groups consisting of documents); and (2)
finding aids that describe each
fondy.
Fondy are usually subdivided into
opisi (series of
documents); the number of
opisi in each
fondy varies.
- This glossary defines acronyms and names for all three organizations of the microfilming project: the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii - RGANI), the Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsialno-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI), and the State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii - GARF).
- ASSR
- Avtonomnaia Sovetskaia sotsialisticheskaia respublika
- BUND
- The General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia
- Gospolitizdat
- Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo politichesko literatury
- GUITK
- Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh kolonii
- Gulag
- Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagerei
- GUMZ
- Glavnoe upravlenie mest zakliucheniia
- IKKI
- Ispolnitelnyi komitet Kommunisticheskogo Internatsionala
- IMEL
- Institut Marksa-Engelsa-Lenina
- Komsomol
- Kommunisticheskii soiuz molodezhi
- KPSS
- Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza
- Krymizdat
- Krymskoe izdatelstvo
- Lenizdat
- Leningradskoe izdatelstvo
- Malyi Sovnarkom
- Malyi sovet narodnykh komissarov
- MOPR
- Mezhdunarodnaia organizatsiia pomoshchi bortsam revoliutsii
- MVD
- Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del
- NKGB
- Narodnyi Commissariat gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti
- NKID
- Narodnyi kommisariat inostrannykh del
- NKPS
- Narodnyi kommisariat putei soobshcheniia
- NKVD
- Narodnyi kommisariat vnutrennikh del
- OGIZ
- Obiedinennoe gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo
- OGPU
- Obiedinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie
- Okruzhkom
- Okruzhnoi komitet [partii]
- Politizdat
- Izdatel'stvo politicheskoi literatury
- Profintern
- Krasnyi internatsional profsoiuzov
- PUR RVS
- Politicheskoe upravlenie revoliutsionno- voennogo soveta
- RKI
- Raboche-krestianskaia inspektsiia
- RKP(b)
- Rossiiskaia kommunisticheskaia partiia (Bolshevikov)
- ROSTA
- Rossiiskoe telegrafnoe agenstvo
- RSDRP
- Rossiiskaia Sotsial-Demokraticheskaia Rabochaiia Partiia
- RSFSR
- Rossiiskaia Sovetskaia Federativnaia Sotsialisticheskaia Respublika
- RVSR
- Revoliutsionno-voennyi sovet respubliki
- SNK or Sovnarkom
- Sovet narodnykh kommisarov
- SSR
- Sovetskaia sotsialisticheskaia respublica
- STO
- Sovet truda i oborony
- Tsentrosoiuz
- Tsentralnyi soiuz kooperativnykh obshchestv
- TsIK
- Tsentral'nyi ispolnitel'nyi komitet
- TsK
- Tsentralnyi Komitet
- TsKK
- Tsentralnaia kontrolnaia komissiia
- TSU
- Tsentralnoe statisticheskoe upravlenie
- VChK
- Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia komissiia
- VKP(b)
- Vsesoiuznaia kommunisticheskaia partiia (Bolshevikov)
- VLKSM
- Vsesoiuznyi Leninskii Kommunisticheskii Soiuz molodezhi
- VSNKh
- Vysshii Sovet Narodnogo Khoziaistva
- VTsIK
- Vserossiiskii tsentral'nyi ispolnitel'nyi komitet
- VUChK
- Vseukrainskaia chrezvychainaia komissiia
- USSR
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union--History.
Soviet Union--Politics and government.
Communism--Soviet Union.