About the Book

This Inventory provides a listing of the Soviet archives concerning India's relations with the USSR during 1917-1947. The Inventory goes beyond the standard publication of this type, which contains a list of collections and inventories of files. The Inventory provides a detailed account of individual files and their contents. In this respect, the volume contains raw material for researchers which is not normally available in inventories. No equivalent publication exists, nor any equivalent archival guide in any archive or library in the USSR or India.

The Inventory covers a number of archives in the Moscow-St. Petersburg area, although the bulk of the material is from the Russian Archive for Social and Political History located in Moscow. This is the archive that houses the main archives of the Communist International and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. A range of other archives figure in the listing. These include the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Archives of the Russian Ministry of External Affairs as well as a range of other archival collections.

About Author

Prof. Purabi Roy is Retired Professor, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Prof. Roy has been a Fellow of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, and a Project Fellow of the Maulana Abul Kalam Institute of Asian Studies. She has written extensively on the activities of Subhas Chandra Bose and his initiatives during the Second World War and Indo-Russian relations.

Prof. Sobhanlal Datta Gupta is Retired Professor, Department of Political Science, Calcutta University. Prof. Datta Gupta has been a Fellow of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata and has written extensively on India and the Comintern.

Prof. Hari Vasudevan is Professor, Department of History, Calcutta University. He is a specialist on Russian History, Russian politics and Indo-Russian relations.

Contents

Introduction

List of Fonds and Inventories

Russian State Archive of the Economy 
Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Ekonomiki  

State Archieve of the Russian Federation 
Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii 

Ministry of External Affairs 
Ministerstvo Inostrannykh Del 

Archives of Academy of Sciences, USSR, St. Petersburg 
Arkhiv Akademii Nauk  

Central Archives of the October Revolution, St. Petersburg Tsentral,nyi Arkhiv Oktrriabskoi Revolutisii  

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