The Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI) (russian: Российский государственный архив новейшей истории (РГАНИ)) is a large
Russian state
archive managed by
Rosarkhiv, which preserves post-1952 documents of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
"Hymn of the Bolshevik Party"
, headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow
, general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last)
, founded =
, banned =
, founder = Vladimir Lenin
, newspaper ...
. It was established in 1999 as the successor to the Center for Preservation of Contemporary Documentation (TsKhSD, russian: Центр хранения современной документации (ЦХСД)), which acquired current records of the Communist Party nationalized after the failure of the
Soviet coup attempt in 1991. A very large percentage of its files are still classified and many others are still difficult to access. In 1992 Soviet dissident
Vladimir Bukovsky worked in the archive and secretly scanned copies of some documents.
Soviet Archives
collected by Vladimir Bukovsky Pre-1952 documents of the CPSU are collected in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History.
References
External links
About RGANI
(in English)
State archives
Archives in Russia
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