The Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI) (russian: Российский государственный архив новейшей истории (РГАНИ)) is a large
Russia
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n state
archive
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located.
Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or ...
managed by
Rosarkhiv
The Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation (russian: Федеральное архивное агентство Российской Федерации (Росархив), Federal'noye Arkhivnoye agentstvo Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Rosar ...
, 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
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
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
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский; 30 December 1942 – 27 October 2019) was a Russian-born British human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950 ...
worked in the archive and secretly scanned copies of some documents.
Soviet Archives
collected by Vladimir Bukovsky Pre-1952 documents of the CPSU
"Hymn of the Bolshevik Party"
, headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow
, general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first)Mikhail Gorbachev (last)
, founded =
, banned =
, founder = Vladimir Lenin
, newspaper ...
are collected in the .
References
External links
About RGANI
(in English)
State archives
Archives in Russia
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