УДК 651.012.12+930.2(47)+35.077.1

DOI 10.28995/2073-0101-2018-2-375-386

Lada R. Parieva

Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russian Federation

Documentation System in the Military Agencies of the Anti-Bolshevik and Soviet Governments Maintaining the Pre-Revolutionary Tradition: 1918-1920

Abstract

The article addresses the issues of documentation in military agencies of the anti-Bolshevik and Soviet governments. Many documents on activities of the military agencies survived the ups and downs of the Civil War and the following events. These documents allow to study the documentation in military agencies of the White and the Red army. As there has been little document science research into the subject, the article draws mostly on archival documents on the activities of military agencies of the anti-Bolshevik and Soviet governments. Having studied the Tsarist era regulatory documents on records management in the army and archival documents from the Russian State Military Archive, the author concludes that the White army preserved Tsarist era regulations concerning military documentation, as did the Red army prior to the establishment of Soviet documentation system. The article divides military documentation systems of the White and the Red army into the following groups: organizational documents, administrative documents, official correspondence, and operative documents. It pays special attention to comparison of document types and their execution. The author concludes that the pre-revolutionary Russian military legislation on development and documentation in the military department was strictly observed in the White army. In the early 20th century, the Red Army also continued to use pre-revolutionary documentation system and records management practices in its military agencies. There were similarities in military documentation systems of the both armies.

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Keywords

Records management, Civil war, military agencies, White Army, Red Army, military documentation system, documents, office work.

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About author

Parieva Lada Ruslanovna, Russian State University for the Humanities, senior lecturer, Moscow, Russian Federation, +7-916-129-90-79, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Submitted 21.12.2017, published:

PARIEVA, L. R. Sistema dokumentatsii organov voennogo upravleniya antibol'shevistskikh pravitel'stv i Sovetskogo pravitel'stva kak prodolzhenie traditsii pis'movodstva dorevolyutsionnoi Rossii. 1918-1920 gg. [Documentation System in the Military Agencies of the Anti-Bolshevik and Soviet Governments Maintaining the Pre-Revolutionary Tradition: 1918-1920. In Russ.]. IN: Vestnik arhivista / Herald of an Archivist, 2018, no. 2, pp. 375-386. doi 10.28995/2073-0101-2018-2-375-386