Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services

Archive material from the FSU and Central and Eastern Europe in UK libraries

(Most of the material listed below was purchased with HEFCE funding given at the end of 1996.)

Archives of the Soviet Communist Party and Soviet State
(Chadwyck Healey). Microfilm [Holdings]

Comintern Archive
Microfiche [Holdings]

Published archive material from the Insitute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest [Holdings]

Opisi of RGALi on CD Rom [Holdings]

Held at:

The British Library Document Supply Centre (Boston Spa)

Holdings: everything produced so far., i.e. documents from:
TsKhSD . Shelfmarks: Opisi MFR 11040; Documents: MFR 11041
RTsKhIDNI. Shelfmarks: Opisi MFR 11042 Documents MFR 11043
GARF. Shelfmarks: Opisi MFR 11044; Documents MFR 11045

A maximum of 10 consecutive reels may be borrowed on inter-library loan against one request form. The maximum loan period is 15 weeks. May also be consulted in the Boston Spa reading room.

Readers may also order reels (free of charge) in the British Library reading rooms at St Pancras. A copy of the Chadwyck Healey catalogue marked up with DSC shelfmarks is in the Humanities 2 reading room (RAM094.3097)*. Readers should fill in a "Monograph Request Form" available from the enquiry desk in the Humanities 2 reading room.

Alexander Baykov Library, Birmingham

Holdings: RTsKhIDNI, fond 17, opis’ 2 (Plenums of the Central Committee, 1918-41) Shelfmark: Mic 5980-5982

Can be read in the Microforms Room. Advance warning should be given. Each reel is also available for loan for a maximum of four weeks. Contact: Graham Dix - DIXGA@lib.bham.ac.uk

*The most up-to-date catalogue of this collection, giving reel numbers of all opisi and dela is at http://www.chadwyck.co.uk/products/viewproduct.asp?key=598

Comintern Archive Microfiche.

Held at:

British Library for Political and Economic Science, London

Holdings:
Instalment 1 (1st-4th congresses, 1919-1922)
Instalment 2 (5th-6th congresses, 1923/24, 1927/29)
Instalment 3 (7th Congress, 1935)
Instalment 4 (Plenum 1, 1922 - Plenum 5, 1925)
Shelfmark Microforms: fiche B826

An Inventory to the Comintern Archive on CD Rom is also available.

Contact: Graham Camfield (g.camfield@lse.ac.uk)

The British Library Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa

Holdings: Instalments 1 and 2.
Shelfmark MFE 4470

Available on inter-library loan (maximum of 100 microfiches against one request form) and in the British Library reading rooms at St Pancras. For procedure see above under 1).

The Inventory is also held at:

Alexander Baykov Library, Birmingham
Essex University Library, Colchester
British Library Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa
Glasgow University Library

Published archive material from the Insitute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Budapest

Held at:

Library of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London

A Petöfi Kör vitái hiteles jegyzökönyvek alapján, vol. 3-6. Shelmark H.XII/PET
A "Jelcin-dosszié". Szovjet dokumentumok 1956-ról. Shelfmark H.IX.e/JEL
1956 dokumentai Hajdú-Biharban. Shelfmark H.XX1/HAJ/EZE
"Szuronyok hegyén nem lehet dolgozni". Shelfmark H.IX.e/SZU
Pesti utca - 1956. Shelfmark H.IXe/PES
Bibó István (1911-1979).Életút dokumentumokban. Shelfmark H.XII.a/BIB/BIB
A fogoly Bibó István vallomásai az 1956-os forradalomról. Shelfmark H.XII.a/BIB
Döntés a Kremlben, 1956. Aszovjet pártelnökség vitái Magyarorzságról. Shelfmark H.IXe/DON
Rendörségi napijelentesék, 1956. október 23. - december 12. Shelfmark H.IX.e/REN
Az 1956-os magyar forradalom lengyel dokumentumai. Shelfmark H.IX.e/EZE
Györ 1956. Dokumentumgyüjtemény, I-II. (vol. I-II). Shelfmark H.XXI/GYO/GYO
Az MSZMP ideiglenes vezetö testületeinek jegyzökönyvei, 1956. november 11. - 1957. június 24. (vol. I-IV). Shelfmark H.X.a/MA

Opisi of RGALi on CD Rom

Held at:

Hallward Library, University of Nottingham

The British Library, London
SSEES Library, London

Anyone from outside Nottingham wishing to use the Nottingham copy should give advance notice to Deborah Bragan-Turner (deborah.bragan.turner@nottingham.ac.uk) 

Chris Thomas
The British Library (chris.thomas@bl.uk)
10 July 1998