Internet and archives: Electronic archive of the Comintern is presented in Moscow

March 5, 2015 at the Russian State Archive of the Socio-Political History (Moscow) is held the presentation of the Electronic Archive of Comintern.

The Archive of Comintern was created as a result of the international organization (1919-1943), which unites the communist parties of various countries, consists of several documentaries complexes: Congress of the Comintern and Plenum of the ECCI; The Executive Committee of the Comintern and itsstaff; The Communist Party (sections of the Comintern); the international revolutionary organization adjacent to the Comintern (the Communist Youth International, Profintern, the International Organization for Aid to the fighters of the revolution, the International Working help, the Krestintern, Sports International, etc.); schools of the Comintern. The Archive of Comintern also includes documents of international connections and brigades of the Republican Army of Spain.    

After the dissolution of the Comintern all these documents were handed over to the General Department of the CPSU Central Committee, now stored in RGASPI.

In 1996-2003 under the auspices of the Council of Europe by agreement with the International Council of Archives was implemented a project of computerization of the Comintern Archives with the financial and intellectual support from the National Archives of Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Switzerland, Sweden, as well as the US Library of Congress and the participation of leading experts in the field of modern History and research of world communism.

Currently, the database of the Electronic archive of the Comintern contains descriptions of 240 thousand cases constituting this archive, and 1.5 million documents (about 10% of all documents from the archives of the Comintern). E-Filing documents of the Comintern are intensively used in the reading room of RGASPI via LAN backup. 

The created electronic archive resource in accordance with the decision of the Federal Archival Agency is converted to the new electronic platform and is available in universal use of free online "Documents of the Soviet era".