• Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.95-111
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• 2007

The goal of this paper is to review the process of formation of the Early Soviet Archival System with a focus on the incarnation of the Tsar Russian System and Theories. Most of the western researchers take the uniqueness of the Soviet Archival System for granted and regard it as a Soviet Invention. However in this paper, researcher tries to find the archaic form of the Soviet system in the Kalachov's archival theories in the late 19th century. In the main body of this paper, researcher tries to reveal the whole feature of the Kalachov's theories, then, compares them with the Soviet System including 'Glavarkhiv.'