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Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI) is a large
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n state
archiveAn archive is a collection of historical records, and the location in which the collection is kept. Archives contain records which have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime....
managed by Rosarkhiv, which preserves post-1952 documents of the
Communist Party of the Soviet UnionThe Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling and only legal political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the...
. It was established in 1999 as the successor to the Center for Preservation of Contemporary Documentation (TsKhSD, ), which acquired current records of the Communist Party nationalized after the failure of the Soviet coup attempt in 1991. A very large percentage of its files are still classified and many others are still difficult to access.
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The
Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI) is a large
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n state
archiveAn archive is a collection of historical records, and the location in which the collection is kept. Archives contain records which have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime....
managed by Rosarkhiv, which preserves post-1952 documents of the
Communist Party of the Soviet UnionThe Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling and only legal political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the...
. It was established in 1999 as the successor to the Center for Preservation of Contemporary Documentation (TsKhSD, ), which acquired current records of the Communist Party nationalized after the failure of the Soviet coup attempt in 1991. A very large percentage of its files are still classified and many others are still difficult to access. In 1992 Soviet dissident
Vladimir BukovskyVladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky is a notable former Soviet political dissident, author and political activist.Bukovsky was one of the first to expose the use of psychiatric imprisonment against political prisoners in the Soviet Union...
worked in the archive and secretly scanned copies of some documents
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