Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the Archives of the Soviet communist party and Soviet state microfilm collection, 1903-1922: Russian State Archive
of Contemporary History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv noveishei istorii - RGANI)
XX843b
No online items
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
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: XX843b
Collection Size:
1011 microfilm reels
(151.65 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Relates to political conditions in the Soviet Union from 1903 to 1992.
Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
Russian
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State Microfilm Collection, [Reel no.], Hoover
Institution Archives
Materials were 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 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).
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
fondy) varies.
Scope and Content of the Microfilm Collection
This collection concerns political conditions in the Soviet Union from 1903 to 1990. 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 gosudarstvennyi
arkhiv noveishei 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.
Soviet Union--History.
Soviet Union--Politics and government.
Communism--Soviet Union.
Communism.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza.
Soviet Union.
- 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 (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic)
- BUND
- The General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia
- Gospolitizdat
- Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo politichesko literatury (State Publishing House for Political Literature)
- GUITK
- Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh kolonii (Main Administration of Correctional Labor Colonies)
- Gulag
- Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagerei (Main Administration of Correctional Labor Camps and Colonies)
- GUMZ
- Glavnoe upravlenie mest zakliucheniia (Main Administration of Places of Confinement)
- IKKI
- Ispolnitelnyi komitet Kommunisticheskogo Internatsionala (Executive Committee of the Communist International)
- IMEL
- Institut Marksa-Engelsa-Lenina (Marx-Engels- Lenin Institute)
- Komsomol
- Kommunisticheskii soiuz molodezhi (see VLKSM)
- KPSS
- Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
- Krymizdat
- Krymskoe izdatelstvo (Crimean Publishing House)
- Lenizdat
- Leningradskoe izdatelstvo (Leningrad Publishing House)
- Malyi Sovnarkom
- Malyi sovet narodnykh komissarov (Small Council of People's Commissars)
- MOPR
- Mezhdunarodnaia organizatsiia pomoshchi bortsam revoliutsii (International Organization for Assistance to the Fighters for Revolution)
- MVD
- Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del (Ministry of Internal Affairs)
- NKGB
- Narodnyi Commissariat gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (People's Commissars of State Security)
- NKID
- Narodnyi kommisariat inostrannykh del (People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs)
- NKPS
- Narodnyi kommisariat putei soobshcheniia (People's Commissariat of Transportation)
- NKVD
- Narodnyi kommisariat vnutrennikh del (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs)
- OGIZ
- Obiedinennoe gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo (Joint State Publishing House)
- OGPU
- Obiedinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie (Unified State Political Administration)
- okruzhkom
- Okruzhnoi komitet [partii] (Party committee of an okrug)
- Politizdat
- Izdatel'stvo politicheskoi literatury (Publishing House for Political Literature)
- Profintern
- Krasnyi internatsional profsoiuzov (Red International of Trade Unions)
- PUR RVS
- Politicheskoe upravlenie revoliutsionno- voennogo soveta (Political Administration of the Revolutionary-Military Council)
- RKI
- Raboche-krestianskaia inspektsiia (Worker' and Peasants' Inspection)
- RKP(b)
- Rossiiskaia kommunisticheskaia partiia (Bolshevikov) (Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- ROSTA
- Rossiiskoe telegrafnoe agenstvo (Russian Telegraph Agency)
- RSDRP
- Rossiiskaia Sotsial-Demokraticheskaia Rabochaiia Partiia Partiia (Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party)
- RSFSR
- Rossiiskaia Sovetskaia Federativnaia Sotsialisticheskaia Respublika (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic)
- RVSR
- Revoliutsionno-voennyi sovet respubliki (Revolutionary-Military Council of the Republic)
- SNK or Sovnarkom
- Sovet narodnykh kommisarov (Council of People's Sovnarkom Commissars)
- SSR
- Sovetskaia sotsialisticheskaia respublica (Soviet Socialist Republic; union republic)
- STO
- Sovet truda i oborony (Council for Labor and Defense)
- Tsentrosoiuz
- Tsentralnyi soiuz kooperativnykh obshchestv (Central Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies)
- TsIK
- Tsentral'nyi ispolnitel'nyi komitet (Central Executive Committee)
- TsK
- Tsentralnyi Komitet (Central Committee)
- TsKK
- Tsentralnaia kontrolnaia komissiia (Central Control Commission)
- TSU
- Tsentralnoe statisticheskoe upravlenie (Central Statistics Administration)
- VChK
- Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia komissiia (All- Russian Extraordinary Commission)
- VKP(b)
- Vsesoiuznaia kommunisticheskaia partiia (Bolshevikov) (All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
- VLKSM
- Vsesoiuznyi Leninskii Kommunisticheskii Soiuz molodezhi (All-Union Young Communists League)
- VSNKh
- Vysshii Sovet Narodnogo Khoziaistva (Higher Council for Economy)
- VTsIK
- Vserossiiskii tsentral'nyi ispolnitel'nyi komitet (All-Russian Central Executive Committee)
- VUChK
- Vseukrainskaia chrezvychainaia komissiia (All- Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission)
- USSR
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics