Availability of Russian archives and illusion of the source study updating: What Russian and foreign researches dealing with the documents should know

Abstract

© Serials Publications.The relevance of the investigated problem is caused by the ability to publish new documents and entire archive funds and write the objective Russian history on their basis. The purpose of this article is to clarify the authenticity of the documents studied herein. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the critical analysis of the materials of the classics of Marxism-Leninism and the documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, allowing presentation of the real picture of the historical processes that took place in our country. The article discovers the main stages of documents and funds, reveals the extent of their validity and the possibility of studying by historians, justifies questions, which were not fully covered, provides the ways of implementation of emerging opportunities. Materials may be useful in the study of Russian history of the Soviet period, when writing books and articles.