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The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online 16/2003 17 Using the thesaurus, one can find, for example, all the meetings regarding the various strikes. Of course, if the word »strike« matches different meetings, it does not say anything about the importance of the debate about the strike. Finally, the proper names are not only indexed but also specified in different categories relying on the function assumed by the respective person, as author, speaker, simply quoted or present in the meeting. This makes it possible to search only for the corpus of meetings where the specific person intervenes, or meetings where he is simply present or quoted. For example, one can find Maurice Thorez as a speaker at the sessions of the Politburo or the Secretariat. One may then become interested about Maurice Thorez quoted rather than speaker. One can also make a research about the perception of international leaders of the communist (as Stalin) or the worker’s movement (as Léon Blum). New perspectives As this kind of an innovative inventory permits larger reflections, it simplifies a more comparative approach. The systematic text treatment opens new perspectives. Without modifying the classification, the computerization enables the user to make inquiries which are beyond the possibilities offered by classical inventories. This database allows a more transversal and thematic approach. Without pretending here to outline a multidisciplinary research program, we can however suggest a few methods of reflections. For example we can imagine major contributions for a social history that would follow social categories as for example the railway employees in order to study their number, their influence and their force. This database could also support oral history. For example, the Secretariat’s appended documents from 1944 on are rich in authorizations to travel abroad, that makes it possible to study individual travellers in Eastern Europe, for example. All kinds of useful data for biographical research may be obtained via this database. Facing the number of documents (more than 75000 pages microfilmed), this database may be a useful tool, introducing at the same time a new way of working: we do not have to systematically read the entire meetings reports. This database enables us to digitise the whole of the original document of these leadership archives. Finally, a link between the thesaurus and the digitised document will then be possible. In this way, the project follows the program defined by Georges Haupt: »To forge working tools, inventory sources, to write biographies, to publish documents, to elaborate monographies« 8 . The Records of the Communist Party of the USA in the Comintern Archives 8 Haupt, Georges: L’historien et le mouvement social, Paris, Maspero, 1980, p.18.
The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online 16/2003 18 DC Publishers is pleased to announce it is expanding its offering of source materials from the Comintern Archives in Moscow. The Library of Congress obtained the records of the CPUSA on microfilm for research use and preservation with no right of additional reproduction. However, in recognition of the importance of these materials to the scholarly community, the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) granted IDC Publishers the exclusive worldwide right to distribute these microfilms. Many of the documents in this collection are unique; the records are very detailed regarding the history of the CPUSA, particularly its origins in the 1920s and the early and middle 1930s. IDC Publishers makes this very important resource available for research. This collection provides a strong basis for reconstructing an accurate picture of American communism and anti-communism. Including an online finding aid. Source: http://www.idc.nl/catalog/referer.php?c=391> Contact: Willemijn Lindhout. IDC Publishers. P.O. Box 11205. 2301 EE Leiden The Netherlands. E-mail: wlindhout@idc.nl Neue Veröffentlichungen und Ressourcen zum Archivwesen Stefan Creuzberger, Rainer Lindner (Hrsg.): Russische Archive und Geschichtswissenschaft. Rechtsgrundlagen – Arbeitsbedingungen – Forschungsperspektiven, Köln, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 2003. Geplanter Inhalt des Bandes: Einleitung (Stefan Creuzberger, Rainer Lindner). Theoretische, politische und rechtliche Grundlagen: Arbeit an der Geschichte. Vom Umgang mit den Archiven (Jörg Baberowski). Reflektierte Archivarbeit – der »Königsweg« osteuropäischer Zeitgeschichte. Die übersichtliche »Welt der Modelle« und die »konstitutive Widersprüchlichkeit« des Sowjetsystems (Klaus Gestwa). Archives in the Former Soviet Union Ten Years After; or, Still »Caught between Political Crossfire and Economic Crisis« (Patricia Grimsted). Institutionen, Archive, neue Bestände: Vom Zentralen Parteiarchiv (CPA) zum Russischen Staatsarchiv für Sozial- und Politikgeschichte (RGASPI) (Andrej V. Doronin). Das Russische Staatsarchiv der Neuesten Geschichte (RGANI). Bemerkungen zu Freigabe und Nutzung seiner Dokumente (Michail Ju. Prozumen__ikov). Das Staatsarchiv der Russischen Föderation (GARF). Freigabe und Nutzung neuer Bestände (Oganes V. Marinin); Das Moskauer »Volksarchiv«. Persönliche Reflexionen über die Idee und die Geschichte eines außergewöhnlichen Dokumentationszentrums (Boris S. Ilisarov). Zur »Deutsch-Russischen Historikerkommission« – Aufgaben und Projekte (Eberhard Kuhrt). 100(0) Schlüsseldokumente der russischen Geschichte. Ein Kooperationsprojekt der »Deutsch-Russischen Historikerkommission« im Internet: Das Beispiel Rapallo-Vertrag (Helmut Altrichter, Christoph Mick). Neue Quellen zum Stalinismus: Eine neue Stadtgeschichte der Sowjetunion und Mikrostudien – Ideen zu den Beständen des Zentralen Staatlichen Archivs St. Petersburgs (CGA SPb) (Julia Obertreis). Auf der Suche nach der Erfahrung. Autobiographisches Material aus dem Russischen Staatsarchiv für Wirtschaft (RGA_) (Susanne Schattenberg). Herrschaft und Technik in der spät- und poststalinistischen Sowjetunion. Machtverhältnisse auf den »Großbauten des
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