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A New Soviet Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories: A Major Contribution in Light of Recent Reference Aids

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Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
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A directory of all archives and manuscript repositories in the USSR with a comprehensive bibliography of finding aids has long been needed by researchers. Yet one of the most highly centralized, state-run archival systems in the world, with its subsidiary strong publication division under the world's first specialized research institute for archival affairs, has still not seen fit to provide researchers with such a basic reference aid. Now, significantly not from Moscow but from the western Ukrainian center of Lviv, comes the second edition of a research handbook of all-union scope that more closely approaches that optimal directory than any other single volume available. The expanded second edition still does not cover all repositories by any means, or even all of the largest and most important manuscript-holding institutions in some areas. Its bibliography remains far from comprehensive and is awkwardly presented.

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Slavic Review , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , Fall 1986 , pp. 534 - 544
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1986

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References

A much more detailed version of this review expanded to include discussion and bibliography of many recent Soviet archival reference publications is available in the pamphlet, Recent Soviet Archival Literature: A Review and Preliminary Bibliography of Selected Reference Aids, Kennan Institute Occasional Papers, no. 204 (Washington, D.C.: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1986). Copies are available by written request from the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, 955 L'Enfant Plaza, Suite 7400, Washington, D.C. 20560.

1. Grossman, Iurii Mironovich and Kutik, Vitalii Naumovich, Spravochnik nauchnogo robotnika: Arkhivy, dokumenty, issledovatel, 2d ed. (Lviv: Izd-vo Vyshcha shkola pri LGU, 1983); 499 ppGoogle Scholar.(print run, 6, 000 copies; price, 2.30 rubles). The first edition bears the same title (Lviv, 1979), 336 pp. (print run—8, 000 copies). Since the city is now in the Ukrainian SSR, I am using the formLviv as anglicized from the Ukrainian L'viv, rather than Lvov, as anglicized from the Russian Lvov (earlier official forms also include the Polish Lwów, the German Lemberg, and the Latin Leopolis, depending on the date and language of reference).

2. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy, “Recent Publications on Archives and Manuscript Collectionsin the Soviet Union: A Selective Survey,” Slavic Review 41 (Fall 1982): 511–533 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The Lviv compilerscite four Soviet reviews of their first edition but not mine, even though they received a copy morethan a year in advance of its publication.

3. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy, Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Moscow and Leningrad (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972)Google Scholar; idem, Supplement 1: Bibliographical Addenda (Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Company, 1976; distributed in the United Statesby Princeton University Press); idem, Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belorussia (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981); idem, Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Ukraine and Moldavia, Part 1: General Bibliography and Institutional Directory (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, forthcoming). See also my recentarticle “Archival Resources for Social History of the 1920s and 1930s: Soviet Archival Developmentsand Reference Aids for the Social Historian,” in Sources on the Social History of the Pre-War Stalin Period, ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick and Lynne Viola, published as Russian History 13 (1986), forthcoming.

4. The latest supplement to the GAU cumulative bibliography of archival literature coversimprints from 1968 through 1970, Katalog arkhivovedcheskoi literatury i sbornikov dokumentov (1968–1970), comp. M. G. Artsruni et al., ed. L. I. Panin (Moscow: GAU/VNIIDAD, 1977). Accordingto colleagues in VNIIDAD, as reported during my visit there in June 1986, no furthersupplement is presently planned.

5. The latest volume covering imprints for the years 1973–1975 was issued in 1980: Sovetskaia arkheografiia, vol. 3: Katalog nauchno-metodicheskoi literatury i sbornikov dokumentov (1973–1975 gg.), comp. A. L. Panina et al., ed. O. F. Kozlov et al. (Moscow: GAU/VNIIDAD, 1980).

6. The archival research institute VNIIDAD issues monthly rotaprint bibliographical bulletinsof archival literature, as of 1986 in two series, but their emphasis is on methodological contributions, with only scattered coverage of finding aids. It is not widely available in Soviet libraries and is notavailable for export: Arkhivovedenie, arkheografiia. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel', and Dokumentovedenie, dokumentatsionnoe obespechenie upravleniia. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel. Before 1986 therewere three series under the general title Ukazateli neopublikovannykh i vedomstvennykh materialov (Moscow: VNIIDAD, 1978–1985): ser. 1: Dokumentovedenie, ser. 2: Arkhivovedenie, arkheografiia, and ser. 3: Normativy i tekhnicheskie usloviia khraneniia dokumentov (1978–1982) and then Obespechenie sokhrannosti dokumentov (1983–1985). The same three series were issued in 1976–1977under the general title Novosti nauchnoi literatury, and from 1973 through 1975 under the title Novaia literatura po voprosam dokumentovedeniia i arkhivnogo dela. Titles and formats of the monthlyindexes varied in earlier years, since their start in 1968.

7. For bibliographical details regarding Sovetskie arkhivy and its predecessor journals, seeGrimsted, Archives and Manuscript Repositories … Moscow and Leningrad, references PKG—A-74 and A-76.

8. Starting with the yearbook 1957 god, twenty-seven volumes are available through Arkheograficheskii ezhegodnik za 1983 god (Moscow, 1985).

9. Publikatsii i opisaniia dokumentalnykh pamiatnikov istorii i kul'tury. Trudy po arkheografii i smezhnym nauchnym distsiplinam. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel', vol. 1: (1968–1972), comp. S. S.Barantseva, ed. O. A. Kniazevskaia et al. (Moscow: Arkheograficheskaia komissiia AN SSSR/GAU, 1984).

10. Bibliograficheskii ukazatel’ izdanii Arkheograficheskoi komissii 1836–1936 (K 150-letiiu Arkheograficheskoi komissii), comp. L. P. Smirnova, A. F. Tutova, and A. A. Tsekhanovich, ed. M. P.Iroshnikov et al. (Leningrad: BAN, 1985).

11. Tsentral'nye gosudarstvennye arkhivy SSSR. Kratkii spravochnik, comp. T. N. Dolgorukova, O. Iu. Nezhdanova, and S. I. Iudkin, ed. F. I. Dolgikh et al. (Moscow: GAU, 1982), 63 pp. and16 plates.

12. Gosudarstvennye arkhivy Soiuza SSR. Kratkii spravochnik, ed. G. A. Belov et al. (Moscow: GAU, 1956; reprint ed., Cambridge: Oriental Research Partners, 1973).

13. Unfortunately, the reference system completely breaks down in a few cases (numbers 14, 63, and 65 under TsGADA, for example) where the numeric references in the text are obviouslyeither misplaced or out of synchronization with the bibliography.

14. Many recent bibliographies and actual publications in this field are listed in my Kennan Institute pamphlet, especially the many series of volumes of collected articles and other monographsissued by the Institute of History of the USSR.

15. See the advertisement inside the back cover of Sovetskie arkhivy, 1985, no. 3.

16. Putevoditel’ po fondam Tsentral'nogo gosudarstvennogo arkhiva drevnikh aktov, vol. 1, asadvertised on the inside back cover of Sovetskie arkhivy, 1985, no. 3. Recent word from Moscow, however, suggests that this guide probably will not be available before 1987.

17. The “Lithuanian Metrica” in Moscow and Warsaw: Reconstructing the Archives of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Including an Annotated Edition of the 1887 Ptaszycki Inventory, edited with anintroduction by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted with the collaboration of Irena Sulkowska-Kurasiowa(Cambridge, Mass.: Oriental Research Partners, 1984; “Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies “; acollaborative publication of Harvard University and the Polish Academy of Sciences).

18. Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv SSSR. Putevoditel’ (3 vols.; Moscow: GAU, 1979). Although I have seen a copy briefly, I have yet to locate one openly available inany Soviet library. It is to be hoped that this long-awaited new guide will soon be reissued in anofficially published edition that will be openly available to scholars.

19. The prohibition on communicating unpublished inventories to foreigners in state archives isone of the most serious restrictions practiced in Soviet state archives, but it is not spelled out in thelatest official rules for foreign researchers, “Pravila raboty inostrannykh issledovatelei v chital'nykhzalakh gosudarstvennykh arkhivov SSSR” (Moscow: GAU, 1980); nor was it listed in the earlier1978 edition of these regulations.

20. Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Voenno-Morskogo Flota SSSR. Tematicheskii putevoditel'. (Dokumentalnye materialy dorevoliutsionnogo flota Rossii), comp. V. E. Nadvodskii, ed. I. N.Solov'eva (Leningrad: TsGAVMF, 1966), was also signaled in my previous review (see footnote 52of Grimsted, “Recent Publications “). The guide is again listed in the Lviv directory (bibliographicalsection 1.2, no. 106). I was recently able to examine a copy, but the guide is still not openly availablein Soviet libraries, nor could I secure a copy for export.

21. Arkhivnye fondy TsGA RSFSR. [Kratkii spravochnik] (Moscow: GAU, 1973). I have stillbeen unable to obtain a copy since it was listed in my previous review article (“Recent Publications,” footnote 68). It is again listed in the Lviv directory (bibliographical section 1.5.1, no. 3) and is alsomentioned in a report by the TsGA RSFSR assistant director, E. M. Korneva, in Sovetskie arkhivy, 1978, no. 3, p. 90.

22. See Grimsted, “Recent Publications,” pp. 523–525, and see especially the GAU directorymentioned there (fn. 66): Gosudarstvennye arkhivy RSFSR. Spravochnik-putevoditeV, comp. E. M.Korneva at al., ed. V. A. Tiuneev et al. (Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1980).

23. Compare my forthcoming Archives and Manuscript Repositories … Ukraine; see also mypreliminary article, “The Archival Legacy of Soviet Ukraine: Problems of Tracing the DocumentaryLegacy of a Divided Nation,” Kennan Institute Occasional Papers, no. 203 (Washington, D.C.: KennanInstitute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1986).

24. Arkhivy Akademii nauk sotsialisticheskikh stran. Bibliografiia, ed. Iu. A. Vinogradov, 4 vols. (Leningrad: Nauka, 1971–1985); the third volume was incorrectly listed as a 1979 imprint inmy previous article: Arkhivy AN …. Ukazatel literatury 1973–1975 (Leningrad: Nauka, 1981), and the fourth volume appeared in 1985: idem,. …. 1976–1978.

25. Kratkii spravochnik po nauchno-otraslevym i memorialnym arkhivam AN SSSR, ed. B. VLevshin (Moscow: Nauka, 1979).

26. Mikhailova, A. K., Pushkinskii dom. Bibliografiia trudov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1981 Google Scholar. The bibliography includes analytics of serials and other volumes of collected articles with many descriptionsof manuscript holdings.

27. Pushkinskii dom. Stat'i. Dokumenty. Bibliografiia, ed. V. N. Baskakov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1982). Separate sections also list dissertations defended, conferences and symposia, and archeographicand folklore expeditions of the institute.

28. My coverage of these repositories in the Baltic republics and Ukraine shows that in manycases their holdings are much more impressive than those of some of the other institutions coveredin the Lviv directory.

29. Biblioteka Akademii nauk SSSR. Vkazatel’ literatury za 1964–1974 gg., comp. G. V Sergienko, ed. N. A. Laskeev and T. K. Tarasova (Leningrad: BAN, 1981). This poorly printed rotaprint edition continues and updates the earlier 250th anniversary volume covering the entire period from1714.

30. A. A. Amosov and N. Iu. Bubnov, “Bibliografiia rabot sotrudnikov Otdela rukopisnoi iredkoi knigi Biblioteki Akademii nauk SSSR (1945–1984),” Polata knigopisnaia [Nijmegen, The Netherlands], no. 13 (December 1985): 2–28Google Scholar. The bibliography is organized by year of publicationand is limited to the writings of specialists in the division, albeit on a wide range of subjects andcollections and hence not limited to descriptions or studies of materials in BAN.

31. See also Grimsted, “Recent Publications,” pp. 529–530.

32. Opisanie Rukopisnogo otdela Biblioteki Akodemii nauk SSSR, vol. 7, pt. 1: Sochineniia pisatelei-staroobriadtsev XVII veka, comp. N. Iu. Bubnov (Leningrad: Nauka, 1984).

33. Katalog deponirovannykh rukopisei. Obshchestvennye nauki, ed. R. R. Mdivani, G. F. Trofimova, and N. K. Shalagina (Moscow: INION, 1976). Researchers in the United States are undoubtedlyaware of the officially announced agreement between INION and the Slavic Library atthe University of Illinois to make selected deposit manuscripts available on microfilm in Urbana-Champaign. Regrettably, however, according to authorities in INION in the spring of 1986, copiesof most of these deposit manuscripts will no longer be permitted.

34. Rukopisnye sobraniia Gosudarstvennoi biblioteki SSSR im. V. I. Lenina. Ukazatel', vol. 1, pt. 1: 1862–1917, ed. L. V. Tiganova et al. (Moscow: Kniga, 1983). See the explanation in Grimsted, Archives, Supplement 1, p. 88. The series was already announced for publication in 1978.

35. Annotirovannyi ukazatel’ rukopisnykh fondov GPB im. M. E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. Fondy russkikh deiatelei XV1U-XX vv., ed. R. B. Zaborova et al., 4 vols. (Leningrad: GPB, 1981–1985).The fact that this important series is issued as a free publication (besplatno) makes it more difficultto obtain copies abroad, since this category of publications is now usually prohibited from export.

36. They are listed in the expanded bibliography included in my Kennan Institute pamphlet.

37. Izdaniia Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M. E. Saltykova-Shchedrina za 25 let (1957–1982 gg.), comp. I. E. Krylova, ed. L. A. Shilov and N. A. Efimova (Leningrad: GPB, 1983);for coverage of publications by the Manuscript Division, see pp. 41–52. Regrettably, this bibliographywas issued in a minute print run, but a copy is available in Widener Library at Harvard University.

38. Latinskie rukopisi V—XII vekov Gosudarstvennoi Publichnoi biblioteki im. M. E. Saltykova-Shchedrina. Kratkoe opisanie dlia Svodnogo kataloga rukopisei, khraniashchikhsia v SSSR, pt. 1, comp. E. V. Bernadskaia, T. P. Voronova, and S. O. Vialova, ed. T. P. Voronova et al. (Leningrad: BAN, 1983).

39. Antoni Staerk, Les manuscrits latins du Ve au XIIIe siécle conservés à la Bibliothèque imperiale de Saint-Pétersbourg. Description, textes inédits, reproductions autotypiques, 2 vols. (St.Petersburg: Franz Krais, 1910; reprint ed.: Hildesheim, GDR, and New York: Georg Olms, 1976).See my earlier annotation and related bibliographical citations in Archives and Manuscript Repositories … Moscow and Leningrad, pp. 315–316.

40. Istochniki po istorii otechestvennoi kul'tury v sobraruia v arkhivakh Otdela rukopisei i redkikh knig. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, ed. G. P. Enin (Leningrad: GPB, 1983); Istochnikovedcheskoe izuchenie pamiatnikov pis'mennoi kul'tury. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, ed. G. P. Enin (Leningrad: GPB, 1984), and Issledovanie pamiatnikov pis'mennoi kul'tury v sobraniiakh i arkhivakh Otdela rukopisei i redkikh knig. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, ed. G. P. Enin (Leningrad: GPB, 1985). Earliervolumes were mentioned in Grimsted, “Recent Publications,” notes 89 and 90, and are listed in myexpanded Kennan Institute pamphlet.

41. Novye postupleniia v Otdele rukopisei i redkikh knig GPB (1974–1978). Katalog, comp.A. N. Galichanina (Mikhaleva) and L. S. Geogrieva, ed. R. B. Zaborova and I. N. Kurbatova(Leningrad: GPB, 1980), and Novye postupleniia … (1979–1983), comp. L. S. Georgieva, ed. G. P.Enin (Leningrad: GPB, 1985).

42. Putevoditel’ po arkhivnym fondam Leningradskogo gosudarstvennogo instituta teatra, muzyki i kinematografii, comp. V. A. Tsinkovich-Nikolaeva and L. M. Kutaladze, ed. A. la. Al'tshuller(Leningrad: LGITMiK, 1984).

43. At least for some of these museums readers will want to compare the coverage in my earlierdirectory, which also lists an additional ten museums in Moscow and an additional sixteen librariesand museums in Leningrad, all with significant manuscript holdings.

44. Bibliografia archiwistyki Polskiej do roku 1970, comp. Jan Pakulski, Regina Piechota, and Bohdan Ryszewski, ed. Andrzej Tomczak (Warsaw: PWN, 1984).