Notes
1Some privileged Russian scholars have been granted limited access to these archives as during the Soviet era, when most archives were completely closed to foreigners. RGASPI is the Russian State Archive of Political and Social History; RGANI is the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History; GARF is the State Archive of the Russian Federation; TsAFSBRF is the Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and APRF is the Archive of the President of the Russian Federation.