#204 Recent Soviet Archival Literature: A Review and Preliminary Bibliography of Selected Reference Aids Patricia Kennedy Grimsted Harvard University "Recent Soviet Archival Literature" was prepared for the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Occasional Papers series in December 1986. Selected portions of this study appeared as "A New Soviet Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories: A Major Contribution in Light of Recent Reference Aids," in Slavic Review 45, no. 3 (Fall 1986), pp. 534-44. Copyright 1986 by the Wilson Center Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars The following review and bibliography was prepared and distributed by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies as part of its Occasional Paper series. The series aims to extend Kennan Institute Occasional Papers to all those interested in Russian and Soviet studies and to help authors obtain timely feedback on their work. 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The Kennan Institute was created to provide a center in Washington, D.C., where advanced research on Russia and the USSR could be pursued by qualified U.S. and foreign scholars, where encouragement and support could be given to the cultivation of Russian and Soviet studies throughout the United States, and where contact could be maintained with similar institutions abroad. The Kennan Institute also seeks to provide a meeting place for scholars, government officials and analysts, and other specialists on Russia and the Soviet Union. This effort to bridge the gap between academic and public affairs has resulted in novel and stimulating approaches to a wide range of topics. The Kennan Institute is supported by contributions from foundations, corporations, individuals, and the United States government. CONTENTS Preface vii Acknowledgements xv I. GENERAL ARCHIVAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE AIDS (Part A) 1 New General Institutional Directory and Bibliography 1 General Archival Bibliographies; Archival and Archeographic Series 4 Bibliographies and Serials of the Main Archival Administration (GAU/VNIIDAD) 4 Bibliographies and Series of the Archeographic Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 8 Early Slavic Manuscripts: Descriptions and Catalogues 12 Bibliographies and General Studies 12 Catalogues 13 Serial Publications 14 Series on Philology and Linguistics 15 Symposia Volumes and Collected Articles 15 Monographs 16 Chronicle Studies 17 History of the Book: Manuscripts and Manuscript Collections 18 Symposia Volumes and Series 18 Monographs 22 Sources for Book History 23 Source Studies for Prerevolutionary Russian and Soviet History 24 Bibliographies 24 Series on Historical Source Study 26 Symposia Volumes Monographs 30 Source Studies for Ukrainian History 31 Sources for American History 33 Sources for the History of Science and Technology 34 Literary Sources 35 Russian Literature 35 Non-Russian Literature 36 Sources Relating to Music 36 Folklore Materials 36 Sources Relating to Art and Architecture 37 Oriental Manuscripts 37 Greek, Latin, and Other Western Manuscripts 39 Ancillary Historical Disciplines 40 Studies of Archival History, Recordkeeping Practices, and Archival Methodology 42 Archival History 44 Recordkeeping Practices 44 Directories of Institutions 46 Archival Methodology 47 II. LITERATURE RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL REPOSITORIES OR SYSTEMS 49 Central State Archives of the USSR (Part B) 49 Other Separate Institutional Archives (Part D) 57 Communist Party Archives 57 Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Defense 58 Gosfil'mofond 58 Other Separate Archives 59 Academy of Sciences Holdings (Part C) 59 Archives of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AAN SSSR) 60 Other Academy Institute Archival Holdings 61 Pushkinskii Dom (IRLI) 62 Leningrad Branch of the Institute of History of the USSR (LOII) 63 Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies (LOIV AN} 63 Holdings of the Academies of Union Republics 64 Library of the Academy of Sciences (BAN) 65 Other Academy Libraries 66 Manuscript Holdings in Libraries and Other Institutes (Parts E and F) 67 Lenin Library (GBL) 68 Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library (GPB) 69 Moscow University Library (MGU) 75 Leningrad University Library; Mendeleev Archive 76 Other Libraries 76 Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music, and Film 77 Manuscript Holdings in Museums 77 Archives Outside the USSR 79 III. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED RECENT SOVIET ARCHIVAL LITERATURE 83 PREFACE The present study is in orlgln, and to a certain extent still in substance and organization, an overgrown review article of a major new Soviet archival reference publication. At the same time and in a broader context, it is a hasty update of my earlier coverage and review of recent general Soviet archival reference literature, with emphasis on repositories in Moscow and Leningrad. Initially, the study started as a review article discussing the second edition of the most comprehensive available directory of Soviet archives and manuscript repositories, which was published in the Western Ukrainian center of Lviv in 1983. 1 My aim was to continue along the line pursued in my review, published in SLavic Review in the fall of 1982, of the first edition of the same directory. 2 Namely, I am reviewing in depth the coverage of the Lviv directory in the context of other available general reference materials and specific finding aids for the institutions covered, with emphasis on those in Moscow and Leningrad of all-union importance. My point of reference for comparison and contrast is my earlier published coverage of such institutions,3 together with information that has subsequently come to my attention. In light of the publication of my own directory of archival institutions in the Baltic republics and Belorussia in 1981, 4 I was in a position to use my own first-hand knowledge of archival resources in these areas and the appropriate bibliography to compare the corresponding coverage in the all-union directory issued in Lviv. And I could further compare the Lviv coverage in terms of the initial part of my forthcoming volume on Ukrainian repositories.5 However, given the priority needs of the research community abroad, I am for the most part limiting my 1. Iurii Mironovich Grossman and Vitalii Naumovich Kutik, Spravochnik nauchnogo rabotnika: Arkhivy, dokumenty, issLedovateL', 2d ed. {Lviv: Izd-vo pri LGU "Vyshcha shkola," 1983; 499 pp.; print run--6000 copies; price 2.30 rubles; see PKG--Ukr-NG-1; [IDC--R-14,560]). The first edition bears the same title and an imprint of Lviv, 1979 (336 pp.; print run 8,000 copies; [IDC--R-14,870]). 2. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, "Recent Publications on Archives and Manuscript Collections in the Soviet Union: A Selective Survey," SLavic Review 41, no. 3 (Fall 1982}: 511-33. 3. Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Moscow and Leningrad {Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972}. Additional bibliography and a correlation table for microfiche editions of finding aids are included in Archives ... Supplement 1: BibLiographicaL Addenda (Zug, Switzerland: IDC, 1976; distributed in the USA by Princeton University Press). 4. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and BeLorussia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981}. 5. Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Ukraine and MoLdavia, Book 1: GeneraL BibLiography and InstitutionaL Directory {Princeton, forthcoming, 1987). See also my general presentation regarding the Ukrainian phase of my project, "The Archival Legacy of Soviet Ukraine: Problems of Tracing the Documentary Records of a Divided Nation," Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, OccasionaL Paper, no. 203 {1986}, which has been revised for publication in Cahiers du monde russe et sovietique. vii discussion to literature of a general all-union scope and to institutions in Moscow and Leningrad, for which my own coverage is now considerably out of date. Cross-references in the review below to literature cited in other parts of my series will use the abbreviation "PKG," followed by appropriate marginal bibliographic code numbers from the volume in question.6 Interestingly enough, none of my directories are mentioned in the second edition of the Lviv directory, although I had met the compilers, and they and their colleagues at Lviv University Library had access to all of my volumes, including an initial draft of my Ukrainian coverage.? The Soviet compilers might intentionally have found it more convenient not to signal a volume published abroad, but my work has been cited and reviewed elsewhere in Soviet archival literature.B Curiously, one of my earlier articles discussing Soviet regional archival organization is listed in the bibliography of the Lviv chapter on foreign archives, but is misleadingly cited under descriptions of archives in the United States