Metadata: Publishing Fonds
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский институт истории Российской Академии наук
- Postal address:
- 197110, St. Petersburg, Petrozavodskaia ul., d. 7
- Phone number:
- (812) 235-15-80
- Web address:
- http://www.spbiiran.nw.ru
- Email:
- spb_ii_ran@mail.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 276
- Title:
- Publishing Fonds
- Title (official language):
- Издательский фонд
- Creator/accumulator:
- Publishing Fonds
- Date(s):
- 1916/1987
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 448 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
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The fonds consists of manuscripts of works written by staff members of the Russian State Archaeographic Commission and the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences and intended for publication, as well as documents related to the publishing activities of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It includes manuscripts, copies of documents, card indexes, bibliographic cards and collections prepared for publication.
The following manuscripts pertain to Jewish history and culture: N. A. Bukhbinder, “From the History of the Jewish Labour Movement in Gomel’” (undated); A. Kaplan, “Biological Sociology and the Racial Ideology of German Fascism” (Hamburg, 1934); L. V. Razumovskii, “Marxism, Revisionism, Fascism” (undated); etc.
The fonds also contains a variety of information on Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire, including in Odessa, Ivanovo, Iaroslavl’, etc., and on the history of the Bund and activities of its leaders in the 1900s, in particular among materials pertaining to a memoiristic collection compiled by S. I. Avakumov titled The First Russian Revolution, which includes articles both already published and written specifically for this publication, among them, reminiscences by M. V. Frunze, E. M. Iaroslavskii, S. Gusev and others on these subjects, and a piece by Vladimir Lenin titled “A Report on the Revolution of 1905”, which analyses anti-Jewish discrimination in the context of the nationalities issue in the Russian Empire of the early 20th century (1956). The fonds also contains an article by S. A. Zhebelev titled “Salomon Reinach”, which contains excerpts on the “Jewish question” in Russia from Reinach’s censored book Orpheus. Histoire generale des religions (Orpheus: A Universal History of Religions) (1921).
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPbII RAS) is the institutional successor of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which was established in February 1936 on the basis of the Historical Archaeographic Institute, which in turn had been formed via a merger of the Russian State Archaeographic Commission and the Standing Historical Commission of the Academy of Sciences, as well as the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the Communist Academy of the USSR Central Executive Committee and the Institute of Books, Documents and Letters of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which had absorbed the Russian and Western European parts of the collection of Academician N P Likhachev. The Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was thus descended from Russia’s oldest research institutions: the Archaeographic Expedition of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences founded in 1829 and the Imperial Archaeographic Commission (IAK) established in 1834. In 1953, the presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences resolved to “abolish the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences (LOII), leaving the institute’s archive in Leningrad”; this latter entity was used to form the Department of Ancient Manuscripts and Documents of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The decision to abolish the LOII was soon recognised as erroneous, and in April 1956 the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was restored. In connection with the breakup of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences into the Institute of the History of the USSR and the Institute of World History, in August 1968 the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History became the Leningrad branch of the Institute of the History of the USSR. In 1992, the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences was reorganised as the St. Petersburg branch of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2000, the institute became independent and, in accordance with a decree of the presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences of 27 June 2000, it was renamed the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The Research and Historical Archive arose as a successor to assemblies of the Imperial Archaeographic Commission (IAK) and was formally established in 1837 by decree of Emperor Nicholas I as part of the Ministry of Education; its purpose was to collect, study, and publish documentary sources on the history of Russia. By 1917, the IAK’s manuscript materials comprised 92 fonds and collections numbering over 64,000 archival storage units. In January 1922, the Russian State Archaeographic Commission became part of the Academy of Sciences. Its fonds and collections were supplemented with nationalised archives of monasteries and private collections and with several fonds transferred from other archives. In 1936, all these materials were transferred to the archive of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which was established the same year. Also constituting a significant portion of the LOII fonds was the collection (assembled from the 1880s to the outbreak of the First World War) of Academician N P Likhachev, a prominent collector of Russian and Western European documents, manuscripts and early printed books as well as autograph manuscripts and seals. The archive currently contains over 390 fonds, including approximately 188,000 archival storage units.
- Access points: locations:
- Iaroslavl’
- Ivanovo
- Odessa
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Bund movement
- Censorship
- Jewish Question
- Memoirs
- Pogroms
- Revolutions
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises three series. Ops. 1 and 2 have no apparent systematisation and op. 3. is arranged alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary