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Archives of Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Choice Outstanding Academic Book 2001 |
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Description: This is a comprehensive directory and bibliographic guide to Russian archives and manuscript repositories in the capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is an essential resource for any researcher interested in Russian sources for topics in diplomatic, military, and church history, art, dance, film, literature, science, ethnography, and geography. The first part lists general bibliographies of relevant reference literature, directories, bibliographic works, and specialized subject-related sources. In the following sections of the directory, archival listings are grouped in institutional categories. Coverage includes federal, ministerial, agency, presidential, local, university, Academy of Sciences, organizational, library, and museum holdings. Individual entries include the name of the repository (in Russian and English), basic information on location, staffing, institutional history, holdings, access, and finding aids.
More comprehensive and up-to-date than the 1997 Russian Version, this edition includes Web-site information, dozens of additional repositories, several hundred more bibliographical entries, coverage of reorganization issues, four indexes, and a glossary.
Selected Contents:
Preface, Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
Acknowledgments
Introduction. A Reformed Context for Russian Archives, Vladimir Petrovich Kozlov
Procedural Introduction
Russian Language Transliteration Table; Abbreviations and Acronyms
Part A. General Bibliography of Archival Reference Literature
1. General Directories of Archives and Manuscript Repositories
2. Library Directories
3. Museum Directories
4. Archival Research Handbooks
5. Bibliographies of Archival and Archeographic Literature
6. Archival and Archive/Manuscript-Related Journals and Series
7. Archival Symposia and Collected Volumes
8. Administrative Histories of State and Public Institutions
9. Studies of Recordkeeping Practices
10. History of Archives and Archeography
11. Sources for Russian History
12. Sources for Regional History and Local Studies (kraevedenie)
13. Sources for Military History
14. Sources for Church History
15. Sources for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
16. Sources for Genealogy and Historical Demography
17. Sources Relating to Ethnic Groups
18. Sources for the History of Foreign Countries
19. Sources for Russian Literature, Linguistics, and Folklore
20. Sources for History of the Theater, Music, and Film
21. Sources for History of Art and Architecture
22. Sources Relating to Archeology
23. Medieval Slavic Manuscript Books
24. Sources for the History of Book Culture and Bibliography
25. Oriental Manuscripts
26. Western and Classical Manuscripts
27. Directories of Personal Papers
28. Historical Geography, Cartography, and Catalogues of Maps
Part B. Federal Archives Under Rosarhkiv
Part C. Archives Under Federal Agencies Other than Rosarkhiv
1. Archives of the President and Ministries of the Russian Federation
2. Archives of the Commissions, Committees, and Other High-Level Agencies
Part D. Local State Archives
1. Archives Under City and Oblast Archival Administration
2. Other Local Archives
Part E. Archival Holdings of Academic Institutions
1. Archival Holdings of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2. Archives of Other Educational Institutions
Part F. Archives of Trade Union, Social, and Other Independent Organizations
Part G. Archives and Manuscript Collections in Libraries
Part H. Archival Materials and Manuscript Collections in Museums
Moscow
1. Historical Museums
2. Historical Monuments and Museum-Parks
3. Military and Military-Historical Museums
4. Fine Arts Museums
5. Theater and Music Museums
6. Literary Museums
7. Museums of Education, Science, and Technology
St. Petersburg
1. Historical Museums and Monuments, and Museums of Ethnography and Religion
2. Military and Military-Historical Museums
3. Fine Arts Museums and Palace Park-Preserves
4. Theater and Music Museums
5. Literary Museums
6. Museums of Education, Science, and Technology
7. Factory Museums
Appendixes
Decree and Regulations on Archival Access and Use (1992-1996)
Indexes
Previous Repositories to Present Repositories
Acronyms of Previous Repositories to Present Repositories
Name Index
Subject Index
Review(s): This directory to the Russian archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg is the most comprehensive and competent work by a well-noted specialist in the area. American Reference Books Annual
Grimsted, compiler of guides to archives of the Soviet Union and its constituent republics, offers a monumental updated and expanded English-language version of the Russian edition, Arkhivy Rossi (Moscow, 1997)...Information concerning changes in Russian archives over the past decade is particularly valuable...Comprehensive, imposing, and essential to any potential researcher in the area, and a worthy successor to Grimsted's earlier guides. Choice d
Patricia Grimstead has almost single-handedly made known the contents of the holdings of archives in the former USSR to scholars in the West. ... The volumes are simply a magnificent achievement. ... it is fair to say that no country in the world now has such a comprehensive and professional study of the holdings and finding aids of its central repositories. ... Scholars of all aspects of Russian and Soviet history, literature and culture will always be greatly in her debt. Slavonic and East European Review
    
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