Identity and loss of historical memory - the destruction of archives

by Igor Filippov, 1955- (Editor)

Other authorsWilliam G. Rosenberg (Contributor), Edward Higgs (Contributor), Françoise Hildesheimer (Contributor), Howard B. Clarke (Contributor), Bruno Delmas (Contributor), Jan Rychlík (Contributor), Stanley Fiorini (Contributor), Flocel Sabaté (Editor), Christine Maria Grafinger (Contributor), Serge Aberdam (Contributor), L. I. Borodkin (Contributor) — 4 more, Pierre Santoni (Contributor), Iryna Mati︠a︡sh (Contributor), E. V. Starostine (Contributor), Z. I. (Zinaida Ivanovna) Peregudova (Contributor)

Paperback, 2017

Status

Available

Call number

CD931 .I34 2017

Genres

History

Nonfiction

Collection

Bibliognost

Publication

Bern ; Bruxelles ; Frankfurt am Main ; New York ; Oxford ; Warszawa ; Wien : Peter Lang, 2017

Description

Archives are the documentary memory of each society and so they become one of the pillars of its identity. Its destruction is sometimes accidental, but it is often deliberate in order to remove the ties with the past. The new times that revolutions attempt to reach usually involve forceful and symbolic ruptures with former identity, including the destruction of the economic, administrative and historical documentation. This book collects updated texts written by outstanding researchers from an initial Congress held in Moscow in 2006 in order to analyze the causes and consequences of the destructive violence against archives boasted during revolutionary turmoils. The studies pay special attention to the first important contempt and destruction of documentation, during the French Revolution; continue studying the damages to archives during 19th century; and culminated analyzing the effects of Russian Revolution over the documentation and the evolution until the end of the Soviet period.… (more)

Language

English

Physical description

351 p.; 23 cm

ISBN

9783034325066

Copy notes

Contents: Destruction of archives and historical science / Igor Sviatoslavovich Filippov -- Historical archives : function and destruction / Flocel Sabaté -- La gestion archivistique de la Révolution française / Françoise Hildesheimer -- Bouleversements administratifs et transmittion des archives : un aspect de la Révolution française / Bruno Delmas -- la Révolution française, les archives et la "théorie mimétique" / Pierre Santoni -- A propos des origines de la sous-série B II des Archives nationales : votes populaires, constitutions de 1793 et 1795 / Serge Aberdam -- Through the veil of revolutionary fires : what can we say about medieval France despite the mass destruction of archives during the Revolution of 1789? / Igor Sviatoslavovich Filippov -- The survival of the Maltese inquisition archives during the French occupation : 1798-1800 / Stanley Fiorini -- Le transport des manuscrits vaticans et l'exportation des archives à Paris sous Napoléon / Christine Maria Grafinger -- Medieval documentation and archives in Catalonia after the 19th century upheavals / Flocel Sabaté -- Revolution and archives : the experience of the French Revolution ot the late 18th century and the Russian Revolution of 1917 / Evgueni Vassilievitch Starostine -- Secret police and the Romanov family archives during the Revolutionary days 1917-1920 / Zinaida Ivanovna Peregoodova -- Archives during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1971-1929 / Iryna Matiash -- Making up for lost time : the impact of the destriuction in 1922 of the Irish public record office / Howard B. Clarke -- Economic dimensions of GULAG : evidence of the "archival revolution" / Leonid Iosifovich Borodkin -- The split of the state and archives : the case of Czechoslovakia / Jan Rychlík -- Revolutionary archives and the "archival turn" / William G. Rosenberg -- Archives in a peaceable land : another case of English exceptionalism? / Edward Higgs.
Series: Identities (Bern, Switzerland) ; v. 7.
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