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summer course on political parties archives



Dear Colleagues,

Let me share following information with you.

Branko Kovacevic
Open Society Archives
Budapest, Hungary


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CEU Summer University
Nador u. 9, Budapest, Hungary 1051
Tel.: (36 1) 327 3069, 327 3811
Fax: (36 1) 327 3124
E-mail: summeru@ceu.hu
Website: http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx.html



Party Archives after the Collapse of Communism

July 16-27, 2001

Course Directors:
Charles Kecskeméti, Former General Secretary of the International Council on
Archives

Gabriella Ivacs, Records Manager, Open Society Archives at CEU

Resource Persons:
Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Writer, Independent Researcher, Ukrainian
Research Institute, Harvard University

Charles Kecskeméti, Former General Secretary of the International Council on
Archives

Denis Peschanski, Professor of History, Centre for Social History of the
20th Century, Sorbonne University

Guenter Buchstab, Former Chair of the Section of Archives of Parliaments and
Political Parties of ICA, Board member of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

John Earl Haynes, Political Historian, Manuscript Division of the Library of
Congress

Kirill Anderson, Director of the Russian State Archive of Social and
Political History (RGASPI)

Klaus Oldenhage, Department Head of the Bundesarchiv

Edward Kolodziej, Professor of History, Department Head of the Archives of
Modern Records, Poland

Ivan Székely, Counsellor, Open Society Archives at CEU

Zoltán Ripp, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Political History,
Hungary

Detailed C.V.`s will be found: http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx.html)


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.

For further informations please wisit our Website:
http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx.html

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