和世界上档案开放工作做得较好的国家比较起来,苏联档案开放的起步是比较晚的.莫斯科国立历史档案学院学术委员会的一封信说,勃列日涅夫时代,档案馆还只是“一个’保守’机关秘密的官僚组织.”但是,戈尔巴乔夫开始改革之后,尤其是1988年以后,苏联的国家档案馆不但开始了档案开放,而且开放的速度也非常快.1991年底以前,苏联档案管理总局所属的中央国家档案馆中的绝大部分档案实现了对外开放.1991年底以后,由于苏联的解体,不但中央国家档案馆中的档案,而且不为苏联档案管理总局控制的党的档案和克格勃档案也全部向社会开放.无论是解体前 Compared with the countries that have done a good job of opening files in the world, the opening of the archives of the Soviet Union started relatively late. According to a letter from the Academic Committee of the Moscow State Archives of History, in the Brezhnev era, the archives were only “A secret bureaucratic organization of ’conservative’ agencies.” However, after Gorbachev began the reforms, especially after 1988, the Soviet National Archives not only opened the archives but also opened very fast. Before the end of the year, most of the archives of the Central National Archives under the administration of the Soviet Archives Administration were opened to the outside world. Since the end of 1991, due to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, not only the archives of the Central State Archives but also the control of the Soviet Archives Administration The party’s files and the KGB files are also open to the public