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download course description (Word doc, 42 kB) Archives of Political Parties after the Collapse of CommunismJuly 16-27, 2000
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Short Biographies Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, writer, independent post-doctoral researcher, consultant, is one of the first Western scholars who started publishing comprehensive guides on the archives of USSR from 1973. Her latest contribution is the Archives of Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to the Holdings in Moscow and St. Petersburg published this year. In addition to numerous very important publications, she was/is the head of several research projects at the US Holocaust Museum, International Institute of Social History, Federal Archival Service (Rosarchiv) and National Library of Ukraine. Charles Kecskeméti, historian and archivist, has been the Chief Executive of the International Council on Archives (ICA) for more than three decades. He was responsible for managing ICA's major projects and its cooperation with Intergovernmental (UNESCO, Organisation of American States, Council of Europe) and International Non-Governmental Organisations (IFLA, FID, ICOM). He carried out planning and teaching missions in various parts of the world. A volume of his collected essays on archival issues has been published in 2000. Although he retired in 1998, he continues to act as honorary Secretary General of the International Committee for the Computerization of the Komintern Archives Daniel Peschanski, historian, is an internationally acknowledged French scholar whose professional interests cover not only the history of France during the 2nd World War (the Vichy Government, Resistance) and of Communism, but also methodological problems of using archives for historical research. At present he is a staff member of the Centre of Social History of the 20th century at Sorbonne University. Kirill Anderson, historian and archivist, is a well-known Russian expert in the field of social and political history. Since 1992 he has been the director of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History but he is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University. Anderson has always been an active participant in international archival projects, such as the Digitalisation of Komintern Archives, with the aim of opening up the former Soviet archives to the public. He is the co-author, along with John Earl Haynes, of the successful book The Soviet World of American Communism published in 1998. Klaus Oldenhage, is a leading German expert in archival policy, legislation and international relations. He was responsible for the microfilming of the records of the US occupational authorities in Germany, the preparation of the Federal Archives Act (1988) and the inter-German exchange of archives. After the reunification he was posted for three years in Potsdam. He developed the new status of the SED archives. From 1984 to 2000 he was the Treasurer of the International Council on Archives. At present Oldenhage is head of the Department I. of Bundesarchiv in Koblenz. Edward Kolodziej, archivist and historian, is the author of several important Polish-language books, articles on archival science and history of social movements in the 20th century. He is also chief editor of the Polish archival journal: "Teki Archiwalne". Currently Kolodziej holds the position of head of department at the Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw, and teaches history at the University of Maria Curie Sklodowska in Lublin. Iván Székely, social informatist, is an internationally known expert in the multidisciplinary fields of data protection and freedom of information. A long-time independent researcher, consultant and university lecturer, former Chief Counsellor of the Hungarian Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Székely is at present Counsellor of the Open Society Archives at Central European University in Budapest. Zoltán Ripp, historian and political scientist, is a prominent member of the new generation of Hungarian political scientistst whose research field covers the ideology and political history of the communist system in Hungary. He works for the Institute for Political History which is the successor of Institute for Party History (MSZMP). John Earl Haynes, an internationally acknowledged political historian. Since 1987 he has been responsible for procuring primary resource documents for historical preservation at the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. Haynes has published several books, articles on the American communism and its relationship with the Soviet communism. His scholarly activities include organizing historical symposiums at the Library of Congress, being the editor of the Newsletter of the Historians of American Communism, a quarterly publication. Course objectives The course provides a kind of continuation of last year’s very successful "Access to Information" by focusing on the documentary heritage of political parties. Preserving and making such documentation available for research is part of the historical process of opening up the past and also understanding recent history, especially the political character of the one party system. The course offers the possibility for participants to become acquainted with the existing legislative models, including both West and Central-East European solutions, which can guarantee the distinction between public and private information generated by political parties. It also examines the pitfalls of archival legislation by confronting legislative measures and practical archival considerations. Besides the theoretical framework, the course wants to narrow the topic to the archives of the former communist parties because the use and interpretation of such resources still requires careful consideration. It should be noted that source criticism cannot stop at the national level but the "network" of Communist Parties", taking into consideration the relations with western communist movements as well, has to be assessed as a whole. The structural analysis of the archives of the Communist Parties and organisations could help in developing a new approach to understanding the operational rules that secured the leadership of the CPSU within the world communist movement from the 1920s on and within the "Socialist block" from 1945 to 1989. Without being too ambitious the course only covers the archival problems relating to party archives rather than studying the history of communism and Communist Parties. Course level, target audience Due to its interdisciplinary nature the course is not strictly designed for archivists. It does not require advanced knowledge of archival administration because its focus more on the content of the archives, and how historical research can rely on such documentation. Historians, political scientists, librarians and journalists are also expected to consider party archives in the broader context of politics and history. Syllabus
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