Reorganization in the State archives acquisition. Essence, realization, reflection (Russian Federation, 1960–1980)
Abstract
This article covers the history of the reorganization in the State archives acquisition of the Russian Federation carried out in 1960–1980-s. Its essence and measures for its implementation, through the restrictive approach to the definition of a range of institutions and organizations whose documents are subject to admission to public archives are discussed in historical context. The author showed that ideas of reorganization in the archives acquisition with Soviet agencies documents were formulated by pre-war archivists B.I. Anfilov, L.I. Polyanskaya, Z.H. Nagorova, O.E. Karnauhova. Those ideas got their development and theoretical justification after the end of the Great Patriotic War in the writings of C.G. Mityaev, I.S. Nazin, V.V. Tsaplin, A.V. Elpatievsky, N.A. Orlova and other scientists and specialists in the field of archives. The practical implementation of those ideas in the Russian Federation carried out jointly alongside the Union-Republican and Republican ministries and agencies with support of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation and basing on its regulatory acts. The article attempted to understand an impact of reorganization in the archives acquisition that determined the structure and informative value of archival fund of the Russian Federation source base. Challenging and unresolved issues of theoretical and practical nature are also considered. A conclusion is made on the need of the representativeness study for source base of the Soviet era.
About the Author
Z. P. Inozemtseva
Central Council of the Russian Society of Historians and Archivists
Russian Federation
PhD in History
Russian Federation
PhD in History
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Inozemtseva Z.P. Reorganization in the State archives acquisition. Essence, realization, reflection (Russian Federation, 1960–1980). History and Archives. 2019;(1):77-88. (In Russ.)
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