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The Red Archives
A Review Article
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2017
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During the period of its publication, the Krasnyi Arkhiv (Red Archives) was the most important historical journal in Soviet Russia. By June, 1941, when Hitler's invasion ended its publication, 106 volumes of this periodical had appeared.
The Krasnyi Arkhiv was the child of the Soviet historian Mikhail Nikolaevich Pokrovsky, the “organizer” of the Central Archive Department, who, among the seemingly insurmountable difficulties of the cold and hungry days of the civil war, collected and saved tons of documents from their most deadly foes: “fire, water and the curious.”
Among the archive depositories of the tsarist regime which came under the jurisdiction of the Central Archive Department were the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior, the Police Department, private archives of the former nobility, etc. Among all these, the archives of the Foreign Ministry were the most “sacred.”
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3 See Istorik Marxist, Vol. III, 1939.
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16 The Krasnyi Arkhiv, according to the Union List of Serials. 2d ed., 1943, s available in twenty-three university and public libraries in the United States. The Cleveland Public Library is preparing for publication a digest of the Krasnyi Arkhiv compiled and translated by the writer of this article.