All original documents of the collection are held by the State Archive of Kiev Oblast, Kiev, Ukraine Reel 1 includes the English index to the collection
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\n1. Fond 6. The Committee for Party Control, 1934–1966
Documents from opisi 1 through 6 amounting to 972 reels. Russian language finding aids to opisi 1 through 9 (14 reels).
2. Fond 89. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union on Trial, 1918-1992
Documents from opisi 1–76 on 24 reels. Russian-language finding aids to these opisi on a separate reel. A detailed document-level guide to this fond in English was published in 2001.
ML - Archive of G. Ordzhonikidze
\nOpisi 1-3: prerevolutionary life of Ordzhonikidze, including identification documents, correspondence on personal and party matters, newspaper articles by Ordzhonikidze, and oral history interviews with people who knew him as a child and young adult.
\nOpis 4: deals with Ordzhonikidze's work in 1917 in Petrograd as member of the city party committee and the city soviet Executive Committee. This is a very short opis.
\nOpis 5: contains interviews with Ordzhonikidze together with speeches and articles by him from the years 1920-1926. 74 dd.
\nOpis 6: telegrams and correspondence related to the Civil War in the Don region and in Tsaritsyn. Also the defense of Baku against Turks. Covering military actions, supply. 1917-1919. 124 dd.
\nOpis 7: defense of Belarus vs. Poles, action on the southern front vs. Denikin. Also documents related to Ordzhonikidze's work as a membery of the Revvoensovet, 1919-1920. 92 dd.
\nOpis 8: Ordzhonikidze as member of the Revvoensovet, 1920-1921. Includes correspondence and telegrams related to supply, military courts. Correspondence with Lenin, Stalin and others on granting of medals, the formation and amalgamation of Military Tribunals. 549 dd.
\nOpis 9: activities as chair of the party bureau for restoration of Soviet Power in the N. Caucasus, 1920. Includes stenogram of a conversation with Kirov re: the N. Caucasus and requests for funds from the center. 15 dd.
\nOpis 10: activity as chair of N. Caucasus Revolutionary Committee, 1920. 27 dd.
\nOpis 11: covers the \"liberation\" of the N. Caucasus, the defeat of Denikin, reconstruction of N. Caucasus, correspondence with Lenin on military action on southern fronts, on the organization of a Soviet Labor Army, and on the formation of the Cheka. Other topics covered include deportation of Chechen population, the disarming of the general population, and the shortage of money in the local economy. 1920-1921. 173 dd.
\nOpis 12: Reconstruction and suppresion of counterrevolutionary \"bandits\" in Dagestan, Chechnya. 1920-1921. 144 dd.
\nOpis 13: Reconstruction and suppression of \"bandits\" in Azerbaidjan. Also diplomatic relations with independent Georgia and Armenia. 1920-1921. 257 dd.
\nOpis 14: Ordzhonikidze and the \"restoration of Soviet Power in Armenia,\" 1920-1921. 178 dd.
\nOpis 15: Ordzhonikidze and the \"restoration of Soviet Power in Georgia,\" 1920-1921. 318 dd.
\nOpis 16: Ordzhonikidze correspondence with Narkomfin, Narkomtorg, STO, and other central Soviet institutions and prominent Soviet leaders, 1920-1922. 117 dd.
\nOpis 17: telegrams exchanged with Lenin, Stalin, Chicherin, 1920-1921. 50 dd. This opis does not show the topics of telegrams.
\nOpis 18: Ordzhonikidze as a member of the Bureau of the Transcaucasus Party Committee, including documents on the suppression of rebellion in Abkhazia and the proposed creation of a Caucasian Federated Republic. 1920-1922. 475 dd.
\nOpis 19: Ordzhonikidze as chairman of the IKKI and member of the Presidium of the Council for Propagandizing the Peoples of the East. 1920-1922. 40 dd.
\nOpis 20: Ordzhonikidze as a member of the Caucasian Military Revolutionary Council, 1921-1923. Includes orders issued, reports on political attitudes in the Red Army and other situation reports. 415 dd.
\nOpis 21: Ordzhonikize as member of the Caucasian Military Revolutionary Council, 1923-1926. Orders, protocols of MRC meetings, reports on the activities of Caucasian separatists, etc. 187 dd.
\nOpis 22: Ordzhonikidze as a member of the Soviet Union's Military Revolutionary Council, 1921-1926. 86 dd.
\nOpis 23: Ordzhonikidze as member of various Central Committee commission, 1921-1922. 112 dd.
\nOpis 24: Ordzhonikidze as a member of the Central Committee, the Transcaucasian Party Committee, and the Supreme Economic Council of the Transcaucasus (Vysshii ekonomicheskii sovet ZSFSR), 1922-1924. Includes texts of lectures and speeches, short memoirs and articles by Ordzh., correspondence with Stalin and Molotov on Lenin's death and the struggle with \"National Deviationists,\" intra-party struggles, the Red Army, etc. 782 dd.
\nOpis 25: Ordzhonokidze activity as member of Party Committee of the Transcaucasian Region, 1924-1926. Stenograms of speeches, drafts of articles, correspondence. 744 dd.
\nOpis 26: Ordzhonikidze as member of the N. Caucasus Regional Party Committee, Sept.-Oct. 1926. 4dd.
\nOpis 27: 1926-1930. Contains speeches, articles, directives, protocols of party commmittee meetings, correspondence with Shkiriatov, Iaroslavskii, and the TsKK/RKI (Ordzh. was chair after 1926) as well as draft speeches on the Shakhty trial of 1928 and occasional TsKK protocols.
\nOpis 28: Ordzhonikidze as chair of VSNKh, 1930-1933. Includes draft speeches, articles, correspondence with Stalin on construction projects and plan targets (1931), etc. 85dd.
\nOpis 29: Ordzhonikidze as head of the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, 1931-1937. Speeches, articles, protocols of meetings, orders and resolutions. Summary reports of activities in particular industries. Reports on purchase of foreign goods to study for imitation. Correspondence with Feigin on poor harvests in Siberia. 775 dd.
\nOpis 1s: (\"s\" indicates formerly secret material) correspondence with Trotsky, documents related to financial catastrophe in Abkhazia, appeals from arrested individuals, correspondence with future oppositionist Syrtsov (1927), a few reports on the political and supply situations in various localities for 1925 and 1931. 136 dd.
\nOpis 2s: Ordzhonikidze's activities to \"strengthen Soviet Power in Azerbaidjan,\" 1920-1922, 1930. Correspondence with Lenin, Stalin, Kirov on diplomatic relations with Turkey and Azerbaidjan, Georgia, Persia, Armenia, etc. 6 dd.
\nOpis 3s: As opis 2s, but focused on Armenia.
\nOpis 4s: As opis 3s, but focused on Georgia. 16 dd.
\nOpis 5s: Secret documents from Ordzhonikidze's activities as a member of the Caucasus Party Bureau, 1920-1929. Also on the purge in Azerbaidjan, 1921. 21 dd.
\nOpis 6s: materials of closed sessions of \"krai soveshchanii\" in the N. Caucasus and Don regions, 1920, 21 dd.
\nOpis 7s: Secret documents from Ordzhonikidze's tenure at the Transcaucasus Regional Party Committee, 1922-1928. 10 dd.
\nOpis 8s: Secret documetns from Ordzhonikidze's tenure at VSNKh, 1930-1936.
\nOpis 9s: Secret documents from Ordzhonikidze's tenure at the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, 1933-1936.
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From the Military Science Archive at the Russian State Military History Archive.
\nThe Napoleonic Wars are one of the most famous and most studied episodes in modern European history, yet Russia's role has drawn little attention or serious study in the West. Now -- with the recent opening of the Russian Military Historical Archive -- scholars may now fully explore Russia's part in these crucial events.
\nThis collection from the Military History section (Voenno-Uchenyy Arkhiv/VUA) contains the rich core of the Archive's holdings on the Napoleonic era. It enables scholars to research this subject without the need for long stays in Moscow, with all the uncertainties that are an inevitable aspect of working in the under-funded and periodically closed Russian archives.
\nThe VUA collection contains a huge mass of documents, mostly military but also political and diplomatic. It includes the official and private correspondence of the Emperor Alexander, of the Minister of War, and of the key generals. This correspondence features the official battle and campaign reports of units of varying size, from corps to regiments, but it also offers more ephemeral correspondence between Russian commanders, allowing scholars to trace how operations developed through Russian eyes and without the benefit of hindsight.
\nThis collection also provides intelligence reports from before and after the 1812 campaign. It has a number of key position papers on logistics and requisitioning, on fortification of Russia's borders, on the topography of various regions in which the army fought, and on Russian grand strategy and campaign plans at various moments in the struggle against Napoleonic France.
\nIncluded in the archive is also a mass of day-to-day correspondence on the crucial questions of how the army was recruited, trained, fed and supplied before and during campaigns, which sometimes took regiments thousands of miles from their bases. There are documents on the raising of the militia and on partisan activity in 1812, as well as on the creation, training and movement of the Reserve Army, which moved through Poland and eastern Germany in 1813 and played a vital role when it arrived on the decisive battlefield of Leipzig in 1813. Until now, the ways in which Russian troops in Central and Western Europe were supplied and financed in 1813-14 were unknown to historians, who will now be able to answer this question authoritatively using the great mass of documents on this issue in this collection.
\nWithin this archive there are a number of individual smaller collections, including those made by General Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky for his histories and by the General Staff itself for the anniversary celebrations and publications in 1912. These collections often include unpublished memoirs and notes of participants in the wars, which are of great value. They contribute to a collection of immense richness, undoubtedly the world's largest and -- until now -- barely touched source of new materials on the Napoleonic era.
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Finding Aids: There is a finding aid published by RTsKhIDNI/RGASPI on CD-ROM held in the CD-ROM filing cabinets behind the documents/microforms desk in Lamont. The call number is CD-ROM DOC HX 11.I5 C58 1998x. Ask for it from the attendant or, if no one is there, scoot back there and get it yourself. The CD-ROM includes an excellent introduction to the collection which identifies the location of materials from each congress and plenum by microfiche card number.
The CD-ROM also includes a searchable index of persons and topics, but I found the search engine quite difficult to use. Researchers would be better off turning to the actual RGASPI opisi which are on the microfiche cards before actual documents from a given fond.
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Finding Aid
The opisi for the collection, on microfilm reel one, are also duplicated in bound hard-copy form and shelved with the other hard-copy guides to microfilm collections in the Lamont basement. They included a detailed document-by-document description of archive contents plus a concordance showing which dela are on which microfilm reels.
Contents
Documents are organized by world area and include such items as letters and telegrams from foreign Communist parties requesting aid, expressing sorrow for Stalin's death, etc., intelligence evaluations of the situations of foreign Communist and socialist parties (for example in British Guyana, in Canada), a stenogram of the meeting of the Fourth Congress of the Unified Socialist Party of Germany, 1954, correspondence with the Communist Party of Norway on Norwegian foreign policy, foreign Communist reaction to the XXth Party Congress, and the Report of the International Democratic Federation of Women on activities in 1957.
Size of Archive
508 dd.
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The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 marked the first major defeat of a European power by an Asian in the modern era. Tsarism's humiliation on the Pacific was the first in a series of convulsions that would ultimately topple the Romanov dynasty. And the confrontation in Manchuria, with its enormous land battles involving the use of trenches, artillery barrages, and machine gun fire, heralded many of the murderous innovations of World War I. For these reasons, the conflict that pitted Eurasia's largest land empire against the rising East Asian power is one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century.
\nContemporaries in the West paid a great deal of attention to the Russo-Japanese War; journalists, military attachés and others wrote scores of books about the dramatic events in the East that enjoyed a wide readership in the immediate aftermath of the conflict. Yet with the outbreak of the Great War less than ten years later, interest in the confrontation slowed to a trickle. And it remained a backwater of military history for much of the previous century. While Russians continued to study the war, much of what they published was heavily distorted by political imperatives, especially during the Soviet era.
\nThe approaching centenary of the Russo-Japanese War and the increasing attention paid to conflicts outside of Europe is reviving interest worldwide in this historical landmark. Until very recently those studying Russia's role have had to rely on secondary accounts, most of which are either dated or tainted by propaganda. But with the easing of restrictions on scholarship the most important primary source -- the rich archive of the tsarist army itself -- have become accessible.
\nAnd now the holdings of Military History section, the crown jewel of the tsarist army's archives of the Japanese War, have been microfilmed. Scholars who are unable to undertake a lengthy stay in Moscow or may be reluctant to hazard periodic closures and the other difficulties of research in Russia can therefore conduct research by consulting this valuable source at their home institution.
\nIn the wake of Russia's defeat against Japan, the Military History section (Voenno-Uchenyi Arkhiv or VUA) gathered a mass of documents to provide the primary source base for the General Staff's official multi-volume history of the war. Although the focus is on the military, the collection also contains much important material dealing with politics and international relations, as well as the Trans-Siberian Railway.
\nThe Military History section's holdings are immense and cover virtually every aspect of the tsarist army's role in the Russo-Japanese War. Here scholars can study intelligence reports and war plans, commanders' reports to Tsar Nicholas II about the Japanese Navy¿s surprise attack on Port Arthur, the base's lengthy siege, the major land battles in Manchuria, and the Baltic Fleet's annihilation at Tsushima. The collection also preserves the orders, dispatches, and official correspondence of the senior generals in the field. And the daily logs kept by the staffs of armies, divisions and brigades also provide a wealth of detail about operations in the field.
\nAs a conflict involving over a hundred thousand troops fighting some 8,000 kilometers from the imperial capital, the war's logistical challenges were immense. The Military History section also holds records about the railways, road transport and provisioning in the field. Material about fortifications and operations in the rear are also included.
\nAnother major challenge to the tsarist armies in the East was morale. The political turmoil that ravaged the imperial capital and the countryside in 1905 was paralleled on the front by railway and telegraph worker strikes, revolutionary agitation, mutinies, and an armed rising in the Siberian city of Chita. These events are also well represented in the collection. It even preserves a valuable set of radical woodblock prints (lubki) and St Petersburg newspaper clippings about the unpopular war.
\nIn short, this microfilm collection will prove to be the basic primary source about Russia's role in its war against Japan outside of the archive in Moscow. It will be of tremendous importance to scholars of Russian and East Asian history, as well as the military and international relations.
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From the Russian State Archive of the Economy (RGAE)
\nIntroductory Essay by Viktor P. Danilov
Senior Research Scholar, Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Russian History and Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Intercenter)
From 1917 to 1929 statistical observation in the Soviet Union was undertaken by the Russian zemstvo--local councils of self-government dating from the mid-19th century. Late 19th and early 20th century Russia had a predominantly peasant population and zemstvo statistics dealt mostly with the peasant farm and its productive and social evolution.
\nIn the pre-Soviet period, Russia underwent profound social development both in urban and rural areas, and it was during these years before the revolution that statisticians began to consider taking yearly surveys of rural villages. Such surveys would obtain a picture of the actual dynamics of social development in the countryside. In addition, they would enable statisticians to observe and identify the factors causing and the scope of the changes taking place in rural Russia. These surveys--the dynamic censuses--were undertaken during the 1920s.
\nThe new regime was presented with a unique opportunity as a result of transforming zemstvo statistics--those compiled by local organizations--into Soviet State statistics. In 1918, the Soviet Republic Central Statistical Administration was set up, and agricultural statistics were compiled by four departments: agricultural production and current information, land-use statistics, agricultural censuses, and agricultural dynamics. A. I. Khryashcheva, whose earlier work on yearly surveys of peasant farms is particularly notable, headed the agricultural censuses and dynamics departments from 1919 to 1926.
\nIn 1919 and 1920 statistical data on dynamics programs began to be collected. The practical identification of rural \"clusters\" or micro districts that is, a group of small villages, a large village or sometimes an entire township was started during the peasant farm censuses of 1919 and 1920. From 1920 onward, special materials on dynamic clusters were deposited in the Central Statistical Administration.
\nIn 1921 and 1922 famine and heavy population migration inevitably affected the dynamic cluster surveys. The years 1923 through 1926 saw a great deal of valuable statistical data collected as more and more cluster surveys were conducted; during this period, many farms were surveyed within the clusters. For example, 591,000 farms were surveyed in 1925; 590,000 in 1926; and 614,000 in 1927, when clusters were identified. The dynamic surveys during these years became annual censuses of 3% of peasant farms.
\nThe files, all in the original Cyrillic, contain the following information for the years 1920-1924 and 1926 (the documents of 1925 have not been found) together with selected information from 1927, 1928 and 1929:
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A household form filled out on both sides provides three to four pages of typewritten information. Typically a completed form runs to six or seven pages and a summary table constitutes 10 to 12 pages of information. A wide range of geographic areas -- provinces, republics, and districts -- is covered by the censuses.
\nThe materials of both the 1927 and 1929 dynamic censuses are of particular interest. Shortly before they were undertaken, there was a change in leadership at the Central Statistical Administration Office, notably in the dynamic censuses department. V. S. Nemchinov was placed in charge and made responsible for introducing a more Marxist footing to the peasant farm censuses, with the aim of identifying class structures within the rural population.
\nThe archival documentation offers clear examples of how this was accomplished. Previous dynamic censuses had grouped peasant farms by physical indicators, such as size of sown areas and total head of draft animals. These indicators were replaced by groupings, which indicated the means of production employed. In addition, a detailed description of interfarm relationships provides further insight into the social development of the Russian countryside. Charts are available that indicate the regions of the country included in the surveys, the number of files for each region and the total number of pages in the files.
\nThis publication offers an unprecedented opportunity for scholars in social and economic history, political science and sociology, demography and geography to study the social development of the early Soviet period.
\nThe Russian Peasantry on the Eve of Collectivization:
The Dynamic (Cluster) Censuses of Peasant Farms, 1920-1929: 278 reels
1920 (26 reels)
\n1921 (37 reels)
\n1922 (29 reels)
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\n1924(35 reels)
\n1926 (19 reels)
\n1927 (72 reels)
\n1928 (10 reels)
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\nIndex (1 reel)
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