The Russian Archives Today: Back to the USSR or Anabiosis?
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, October 30, 2008 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
The talk focuses on the main trends of current situation in the Russian archives: the policy of intellectual and research access, declassification, finding aids, Russian archival Internet.
Marina Sorokina is senior researcher in the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the division in the Foundation-Library “Russkoe Zarubezh’e” (Russia Abroad; mostly known as A.Solzenitcyn Foundation). She received her PhD in historical archives and specializing in the social history of Russian science including the history of Russian scientific emigration. She has collected, annotated and published a number of volumes of archival manuscript on Russian scholars, including most recently A.S.Lappo-Danilevsky, Politische Ideen im Russland des 18. Jahrhunderts: ihre Geschichte im Zusammenhang mit der allgemeinen Entwicklung der russischen Kultur und Politik (Böhlau, 2005) and Luidi i sudby: biobibliograficheskii slovar vostokovedov-zhertv politicheskogo terrora v sovetskii period (1917-1991) (Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie, 2003). Her current project – “Community in Exile: Dictionary of the Russian Scholarly Emigration in XXth century.”
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