Materials of political repressions: from secrecy to publicity

Abstract

In the article the author analyzes the process of formation of the Center of study of Materials of Political Repression of the XX century in the structure of the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Considering the main directions of the Center’s work, on the basis of specific sources the questions of reception of documents from special state archives, their placement, determination of physical condition of documents, scientific and technical processing and declassification have been studied. In addition, the significance of social and legal requests from descendants of victims of political repression has been revealed. It is emphasized that one of the main tasks of the Center is the introduction into scientific circulation of collected archival documents, which will serve to eliminate gaps in the history of the Country.