The Activities in Moscow after 1991 and Memorial

The opening of the former Soviet archives, the so-called “archival revolution”, is one of the primary cultural and political events that followed the collapse of the Ussr in the early 1990s. The opening included materials from the years from 1917 until the de-Stalinization phase (1956), as well as some materials related to the subsequent years, which gave scholars the opportunity to examine documents on the history of Russia, the Soviet Communist Party, and the fates of the Russian and international workers’ movement.