革命历史档案,即整个新民主主义革命时期内中国共产党和它所领导的政权、军队、青年团以及其它革命群众团体所形成的档案.这些档案不仅内容是历史的真实记录,而且外形——制作材料、书写格式、字体笔迹、用词造句等方面,受当时社会背景、文化背景的制约,具有突出的历史特点.对其进行系统的分析研究,对于准确地理解、校勘、再版档案原文是十分必要的.革命历史档案的外形特点可归纳为几点:一、留存文件多为孤本.现存革命历史档案中绝大部分是孤件.仅少数有重份或不同的版本,个别还有残缺.究其原因,一是文件产生时就是孤件.时间越早、环境越残酷、机密程度越高,这种情况越多.一般为信函、电文.二是一些文件发挥时效后,不宜 The archives of revolutionary history, archives formed by the Chinese Communist Party and the regimes, military forces, youth groups and other revolutionary mass organizations led by it during the entire period of the new-democratic revolution, contain not only the true record of history but also the shape-making Material, writing format, font handwriting, the use of words to make sentences and so on, subject to the social background, cultural background constraints, has outstanding historical features .Systematic analysis of its accurate understanding, collation, republishing the original file is very Necessary. The historical features of the revolutionary archives can be summarized as follows: First, there are mostly lonely archives. Most of the extant revolutionary historical archives are solitary pieces. Only a few have multiple copies or different editions, and some are incomplete. The reason is that one is when the file is isolated, the earlier the time, the more cruel the environment, the higher the degree of confidentiality, such a situation is more, usually letters, texts.