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Ukrtsentrarkhiv ’ s position was strong enough to object to the creation of the Central Archival Administration of the USSR , and dispute the questions of identifying the fonds of all-Soviet Union value and military archival fonds .
On December 30 , 1922 , the First Congress of Soviets of the USSR passed the Declaration of the creation of the USSR and the Treaty on the creation of the USSR . The Treaty established the Council of People ’ s Commissars and a few the USSR People ’ s Commissariats , notably : in foreign affairs , military and naval affairs , foreign trade , means of communication , Post and Telegraph , workers ’ and peasants ’ inspectorate , labor , foodstuffs , finances and the Supreme Soviet of the People ’ s Economy . Nothing was mentioned about archives in this Treaty , but in 1923 the RSFSR Tsentrarkhiv submitted a draft regulation to the Council of People ’ s Commissars on establishing the Central Archival Administration ( the Tsentrarkhiv ) of the USSR which was sent to the Council of People ’ s Commissars of the UkrSRR for consideration . On January 26 , 1924 , the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR adopted the First Constitution of the Soviet Union . It determined a sphere of matters which belonged to the competences of the Soviet Union ’ s supreme organs of power . Among those competencies was : foreign policy , borders , military forces , transport , and communications , economic planning , war , and peace announcement . Although every Republic had obtained the right to be free from the Union , the USSR started to turn into a highly centralized , unitary state .
On March 28 , 1924 , the Small Council of People ’ s Commissars of the UkrSRR issued a decree which stated : ‘… the Council of People ’ s Commissars of the UkrSRR found it unacceptable to subordinate the Tsentrarkhivs of Soviet Republics to the Central Archival Administration of the USSR , but at the same time had no objection to establishing an archival organ under the Central Executive Committee of the Union which would manage the archival affairs of the People ’ s Commissariats and central entities of the USSR …’ 41 .
In May 1925 the accession process of Ukraine to the USSR was completed . However , during the New Economic Policy , the total abolition of Ukrainian people ’ s achievements had not happened yet , and Ukraine tried to save the attributes of statehood . Thus , the previously mentioned First All-Ukrainian Congress of Archivists ( 1926 ) adopted a resolution condemning the creation of the Tsentrarkhiv of the USSR 42 . The participants of the Congress suggested convening periodic meetings to coordinate activities of the archives of the
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Резолюція І-го Всеукраїнського з ’ їзду архівних робітників по докладу М . А . Рубача , Діяльність Центрального Архівного Управління й чергові завдання архівного будівництва , [ in :] ‘ Бюлетень Укрцентрархіву ’ 1926 , vol . 9 – 10 ( 11 – 12 ), 5 червня , p . 5 .