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From 1988 onwards bastion after bastion began to fall. On a memorable day in 1989 foreign scholars were moved out of their confinement in their special reading room in the state archives into the normal reading room, and were given access to the inventories of many Soviet commissariats. In the Central Party Archive a selected group of Soviet historians — several of whom we have already met in these pages — was allowed extensive access to formerly secret materials in connection with the preparation of the new party history. The directors of both Glavarkhiv and the Central Party Archive claimed in numerous interviews that all was going well.1
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D. N. Nokhotovich, from TsGAOR (now GARF) — Sovetskie arkhivy, no. 4, 1990, p. 35.
V. Shentalinsky, The KGB’s Literary Archive (London, 1995 ).
See E. Bacon, The Gulag at War: Stalin’s Forced Labour System in the Light of the Archives (1994) and Getty, Rittersporn and Zemskov in American Historical Review, October 1993, both based on material collected before the end of 1992.
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Davies, R.W. (1997). The Opening of the Archives. In: Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25420-0_7
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