#  Publications and Guides for the Russian Archives 

 



[**The Russian Archives**](http://www.rusarchives.ru/)  
This site contains extensive information about Russian archival document collections including finding aids, contact information for individual archives, and documents.

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[**ProQuest on Soviet Archives**](https://www.proquest.com/products-services/film/archives-of-the-soviet-communist-party-and-soviet-state1.html)

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[**ArcheoBiblioBase**](http://www.iisg.nl/~abb)  
This site, based on the ArcheoBiblioBase directory and bibliographic  
database for Russian archives, provides an abbreviated listing  
of:  
  
1\. The current sixteen federal archives administered by the Federal  
Archival Service of Russia, which form the network of what in  
most countries would be considered the national archives.  
  
2\. Archives of major federal agencies that have the right by law  
to the long-term retention of their own records, including those  
of a more technical and specialized profile.  
  
3\. Local, municipal and oblast archives in Moscow and St Petersburg.

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[**Annals of Communism, Yale University Press**](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/series/annals-of-communism-series)  
Annals of Communism presents selected documents concerning the  
history of Soviet and international communism from Russian state  
and party archives. Virtually all the material contained in these  
archives has never before been available to Western or even Russian  
scholars.

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[**Russian Archives Online**](http://www.russianarchives.com/)  
The Russian Archives Online site contains Russian archival collections   
of photographs and films, audio, clips and transcripts from the   
republics of the former Soviet Union.

[**Access to Russian Archives**](http://online.eastview.com/projects/ticfia/index.html)