Archival terminology in the USSR and in post-Soviet countries: continuity and change
Varlamova L. Latysheva E. Mukhatova O. Varnashou D.
2021Taylor and Francis
Archives and Manuscripts
2021#49Issue 1-288 - 106 pp.
The archival schools of the post-Soviet countries discussed in this article (Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine), despite having much in common, are quite different from one another. Their similarity is due to a comprehensive legal and methodological base inherited from the USSR, as well as to a well-established common practice. The principles of normative regulation of archiving were laid down in the USSR and built on the basic law on archiving and the normative acts of the central state body responsible for the archival affairs of the country. All the countries examined have retained the principles of forming the terminological system of the professional area through the development of a special national terminological standard which includes the terms given in the fundamental law on archiving. However, the extent to which the terminological systems are elaborated and are consistent both within themselves and with the terminological systems of related fields of activity in each country, is different. The article contains an analytical comparison of the definitions of fundamental archival terms standardised in national standards and laws on archival affairs in the abovementioned countries and in the USSR, and also shows the influence of ISO standards on the development of terminological systems in these countries.
archival science , Document , national terminological system , post-Soviet countries , USSR
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Department of State Institutions and Public Organizations, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russian Federation
Department of Document Science and Archival Science, Crimea State University, Simferopol, Russian Federation
Department of Historiography, Source Study and Modern Methodology, Kazakhstan History and Ethnology Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Department of Document Science, Belarusian Research Institute for Documentation and Archival Science, Minsk, Belarus
Department of State Institutions and Public Organizations
Department of Document Science and Archival Science
Department of Historiography
Department of Document Science
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