Archives across the Eastern Europe and Central Asia continue to publish and make available significant documentary collections. This digest brings together materials that deepen our understanding of the most significant events and social transformations of the 20th century – from regarding homeless children in Kazakhstan, Soviet intelligence files on the Kennedy assassination to digitized diplomatic correspondence in Ukraine.
KAZAKHSTANThe Ch. Ch. Valikhanov Institute of History and Ethnology in Kazakhstan has published
a collection of documents on child homelessness in the 1920s–1930s. The materials reveal the social impact of the Revolution and the First World War on traditional kinship ties and community-based mechanisms of care for younger generations.
RUSSIARussian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI) has published
a collection of documents on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. Materials from the Archives of the President of the Russian Federation, the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, the FSB of Russia, and the KGB of the Republic of Belarus shed light on Soviet society's reaction to the assassination and highlight the active assistance provided by Soviet authorities in the course of the criminal investigation.
UKRAINEThe State Archival Service of Ukraine has presented
an updated version of the "Diplomatic e-Archive" project, originally initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. The "Diplomatic e-Archive" contains a large collection of digitized documents related to foreign policy, negotiations and treaty-making, diplomatic education, missions, and more.