Stalin’s centralization of archives leaves post-Soviet states without key sources on their histories
A frequent refrain of researchers on Soviet history is that key questions will be answered “when the archives…
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Prisoners of state secrecy: How Russia aborted its “archival revolution”
This article is the third part of “An email to the realm of shadows,” Euromaidan Press’ series on…
Former UPA liason officer receives copy of her criminal case as recorded by Soviet NKVD
97-year-old Olha Ilkiv, accompanied by her son Volodymyr, arrived at the SBU headquarters in Lviv to…
EU Eastern Partnership experts say Ukraine’s opening of KGB archives is exemplary
Experts from the countries of the Eastern Partnership spoke about access to the archives of the communist secret…
Difficult choice for Ukraine as identities of KGB agents finally come to light
Ukraine’s resolve to open the archives of the communist special services makes publicly available not only the files…
Ukrainians discover stories of repressed relatives in newly opened KGB archives
Russia and Ukraine hold the world’s largest documentary collections of Communist secret services that ceased to exist in…
Putin regime now seizing and destroying archives to whitewash the Soviet past
The Putin regime has moved beyond banning and confiscating books, an increasingly ineffective measure given that most publications…
Documents reveal Soviet repressions against those resisting Holodomor genocidal famine
Previously unknown documents reveal the scale of Soviet repression against peasant dissenters against collectivization and forced expulsion of…
How public should the Soviet KGB archives be?
One of the results of the Maidan is the transfer of the KGB archives to the National Memory…
Control over the past: Russia’s archival policy and Second World War myths
On the April 4, I read an article titled “Spies from the reading room.” It described how during the last…