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Przegląd Archiwalno-Historyczny Tom VII Poznań 2020
Larysa L e v c h e n k o ( State Archival Service of Ukraine ) Doctor of historical sciences , Professor , loralewch @ gmail . com ORDCID iD : 0000-0001-9097-7373
The archival branch of Ukraine from 1917 to 1960 : Structural and management reforms
For Ukraine , the period of 2017 – 2021 is the centennial commemoration of the Ukrainian Revolution ( 1917 – 1921 ) during which the State of Ukraine first appeared on maps of the World 1 . That period in the history of Ukraine was clearly a dynamic one , and included the creation of the National Archival Service and an archival branch of government in general . In the archival historiography of the Soviet period , the dominant belief was that the Ukrainian State Archival Service had been established through Vladimir Lenin ’ s Decree ‘ On Reorganization and Centralization of Archival Affairs in the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic ’ ( June 1 , 1918 ) 2 . However , modern historians in Ukraine claim that the history of the National Archival Service and the archival branch began in September 1917 after establishing the Library and Archival Division which was a part of the Department of Arts operated under the General Secretariat on Education of the Ukrainian Central
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From November 22 , 1917 – the Ukrainian People ’ s Republic was an autonomous part of the Russian Republic ; from January 22 , 1918 to April 29 , 1918 – the Independent State of the Ukrainian People ’ s Republic headed by the Ukrainian Central Council ; from April 29 , 1918 – to December 14 , 1918 – the Ukrainian State ( Hetmanate ) headed by Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi ; from December 14 , 1918 to November 10 , 1920 – the Ukrainian People ’ s Republic , headed by the Directory .
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В . К . Нікітін , Архівне законодавство СРСР і архівна справа в СРСР . Лекція 1 . Одеса-Харків 1931 , p . 9 ; Ленінський декрет у дії , [ in :] Архівознавчий збірник , Київ 1938 , p . 3 – 10 ; С . Д . Пількевич , 40 років радянського архівного будівництва на Україні , [ in :] З історії архівного будівництва на Україні . Збірник статей , присвячений 40-річчю радянського архівного будівництва на Україні , Харків 1958 , p . 9 ; О . Г . Мітюков , Радянське архівне будівництво на Україні ( 1917 – 1973 ), Київ 1975 , p . 5 .