Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State Microfilm Collection
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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1q2n9845 No online items Guide to the Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet state microfilm collection: Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsialno-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI) Finding aid prepared by Lora Soroka Hoover Institution Archives 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA, 94305-6010 (650) 723-3563 [email protected] © 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 XX880 1 Title: Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet state microfilm collection: Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsialno-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI) Date (inclusive): 1903-1991 Collection Number: XX880 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Archives Language of Material: Russian Physical Description: 2772 microfilm reels (340.8 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 sot͡sial'no-politicheskoi istorii. Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives Contributor: Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza. Access Collection open for research. The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], original located in RGASPI, [Fond number, Opis number, Delo number], Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet state microfilm collection, [Reel number], Hoover Institution Archives. Acquisition Information Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives. Accruals 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 Archives of Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsialno-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI); -State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii - GARF); and -Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii - RGANI). Related Materials 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 XX880 2 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 RGASPI Records Materials described in this document are from the Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsialno-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI). The collection includes materials from congresses and conferences of the RSDRP-VKP(b)-KPSS and records of the TsK KPSS Central Committee for the years 1917-1990. There are thirty-nine fonds that were microfilmed for the Hoover Institution at the Russian State Archives of Social and Political History. Thirty-eight fonds consist of one (occasionally two) opis and contain mainly documents relating to the congresses (2nd through 19th; 23rd through 28th) and conferences (5th through 16th) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (KPSS) [RSDRP, 1903-1917; RKP(b), 1918-1925; VKP(b), 1925-1952; KPSS, 1952-1990]. There are 2,069 files (on 261 reels) in these 38 fonds. All files were filmed for the Hoover Institution. Fond 17, The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union records, 1903-1965, 1971, contains documents related to the activities of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party in 1989 and 1903-1917, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1918-1925, and All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1925-1952). The listing below has been prepared for 2,457 microfilm reels of Fond 17. The Central Committee was the leading body of the KPSS, its political, theoretical, ideological, and organizational center. It was elected at the party congresses or sometimes at its conferences. While in power, the Central Committee was the main organ supervising the KPSS, the government, and the political and economic life of the Soviet Union. The main organs of the Central Committee were plenums, Bureau of the Central Committee, Political Bureau, Organizational Bureau, and Secretariat. Decisions mandatory for party and governmental institutions were adopted at the meetings of these organs. The Central Committee of the KPSS also had an apparatus in which one part acted in parallel to the leading governmental structures and the other was dealing with interior KPSS problems. Arrangement 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 gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii - RGANI); -Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsialno-politicheskoi istorii - RGASPI); and -State Archives of the Russian Federation (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii - 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 XX880 3 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