The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) (russian: Российский государственный архив социально-политической истории (РГАСПИ)) 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 ...
based in
Moscow
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, which holds pre-1952 archives of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). It is managed by
Rosarkhiv. It was established in 1999 as merger of two other archives, the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Most Recent History (RTsKhIDNI, russian: Российский центр хранения и изучения документов новейшей истории (РЦХИДНИ) and the Centre for the Preservation of Documents of Youth Organizations (russian: Центр хранения документов молодежных организаций (ЦХДМО)). Post-1952 archives of the CPSU are collected in the
Russian State Archive of Contemporary History
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 preserve ...
.
The archives include many of the personal papers of major Communist and Soviet leaders, including