Party History Institute

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PARTY HISTORY INSTITUTE of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a branch of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism working under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1939. It originates from the Petrograd Bureau of the Party History Committee, which was in charge of collecting and studying information on the history of the October Revolution and the Russian Communist Party. The bureau became a department of the Leningrad Party History Committee in 1921 and was reorganised as an institute in 1930. The institute was in charge of the Leningrad Party Archive from 1945 (see St. Petersburg Archive of Historical and Political Documents). Members of the institute compiled the archive of the Petersburg Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party (of Bolsheviks) and archives of regional party organisations, founded an archive for reminiscences, and prepared a number of collected documents and reminiscences and hundreds of books and brochures including three volumes of Outlines of the History of the Leningrad Organisation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, published in 1980-85. It published its own magazine, Krasnaya Letopis (The Red Chronicle), in 1922-37. The institute was reorganised into the Leningrad Institute of Political Studies in 1991 and closed in 1995. It was situated at 3/1 Smolnogo Street and, in 1990s, at 39 Tavricheskaya Street.

O. N. Ansberg. Smolnogo St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 1/3
Tavricheskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 39
Historical and Political Archives of St. Petersburg