In this paper the author tries to pin point the prime driving factor which had enabled the Imperial Russia to have modern archives in the late 19th century. Many a scholar have thought that the Western Modern Archival System was the ultimate model for...
In this paper the author tries to pin point the prime driving factor which had enabled the Imperial Russia to have modern archives in the late 19th century. Many a scholar have thought that the Western Modern Archival System was the ultimate model for the russian archives and it was the very help of the western scholars that made the modern archives possible in the Russian territory. But to the contrary, it was not the western influence but the internal russian technologies developed by the russian archivists which made the modern archival system possible in the Russia.
In the first chapter, the author describes the purpose of this paper as 'to reveal the real driving force' which made the Russian Modern Archival System possible about 100 years ago.
In the second chapter, the author sets the logic of this paper to understand what modernity is in the archival field. To admit historical values of the archives is the first factor which can make a real modern archival system. To have a free access to the archival fonds and to let all the members of the society to use the archives are the second condition to make a modernity accomplished in the archival field. To have the proper law foundation to manage the archives is the third fact which can define modern archives.
In the third chapter, the author explains the characteristics of the archives before Peter the great. The author points out the Prikaz archives of the Ivan IV were the dividing places of the old church archives(10-15 centuries) and prikaz archives(16-17 centuries).
In the forth chapter, the author explains the beginning of the modern archival system with the archival decrees of the Perter I in the years of 1711 and 1712. And after that the author shows a set of russian archivists who had contributed the building of modern archival system. It was the Kalachov who finally had made the russian modern archival system at least in a form of pure theory in the late 19 century. The author devotes more than 12 pages to explain the activities of the archivist, Kalachov in detail. The author thinks that the archival systems of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation in the 20th century was the continuations of the modern archival system of the late 19th century. And the author thinks that the Russian Federation gets the direct inheritance of the Imperial Russian Modern Archives Heritages of the 19th century.
In the conclusion, the authors stresses that the two developments of modern archival systems in the Soviet union and Russian Federation are not more than the two different faces derived from the heritage of the 19th century modernity in the imperial russian archives. The study of the russian archives helps to find the historical material to understand the Korean History of the 19th and 20th centuries, too.