From: Dave Zachariah (davez@KTH.SE)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 14:04:30 EST
on 2008-01-29 22:47 Martin Kragh wrote: > A while ago, I posted a thread on the Russian State Archive of Social > and Political History, RGASPI. > > http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/ope/archive/0701/0061.html > <http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/%7Ecottrell/ope/archive/0701/0061.html> > > I follow up this thread with a picture of the building that might be > of interest. This is the front of the building facing the street. On > the other side of the street are some luxury shops, because the > archive is located in central Moscow. You get an idea of the size of > the Marx, Engels and Lenin constructions if you look at the cars. The > house was built by German POW:s in the late 1940s. It contains all the > files from the former MEL-institute which was closed in 1991, but to > my knowledge it doesn't have any exmployees working on the available > material. Researchers have unlimited access to the majority of > these files however, for no fee. Archivists there are very kind and > helpful, and they often know many details about the materials. > > This is a gold mine for researchers in political economy and labour > history, because there are hundreds of files on European labour > history and the social sciences made available since the beginning of > the Russian archival revolution in 1993. > > Kind regards > Martin Hi Martin, What is the topic of your research and when are you planning its publication? //Dave Z
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