Documentary publications play a prominent role in creating a documentary base for historical research, in ideological and educational work, and in exposing the falsification of bourgeois ideologists. Therefore, the problems of archeography development concern a wide range of Soviet historians and representatives of other social sciences .1 In this regard, it seems necessary to try to make some generalizations about the state of publishing in the country and consider new aspects of Soviet archeography against the background of modern experience in publishing sources, the development of the theory and methodology of publishing documents summarized in the new rules for their publication.2Significant changes in the publication of documentary materials in the USSR have been outlined since the mid-50s. From 1956 to 1970, more than 1,200 collections of documents were published, including about 900 on the history of Soviet society. Among these publications, a prominent place is occupied by publications of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU. The second edition of the Works of Karl Marx and Philipp Freud is of fundamental methodological, ideological and theoretical importance in building communism in our country, and of great international importance in the struggle of the communist and workers ' parties for the triumph of Marxist - Leninist ideology. Engels 3 . In 1965, the publication of the Complete Works of V. I. Lenin in 55 volumes was completed. 4 In the jubilee 1970, the XXXVII Lenin Collection was published. These publications fully reveal the richness of Lenin's theoretical heritage. Several collections of correspondence between V. I. Lenin 5 and the Ulyanov family 6 were published , and Memoirs of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 5 vols 7 were published. 1 See N. A. Ivnitsky and D. A. Chugaev. To the results of the development of Soviet archeography from the XX to the XXII Congress of the CPSU. "Historical archive", 1961, N 5; A. I. Gu ... Читать далее