- Foreword [Charles Kecskeméti]
- Technical Note
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Reconstituting the Archival Heritage of Ukraine: The Historical and Ideological Context
- I. The International Legal Context
- 1. Defining the Archival Heritage of Ukraine: Russia and Pretensions of Soviet Successor States
- International and Soviet Archival Principles
- New Archival Laws and CIS Agreements
- Beyond New Laws—Efforts to Define Archival Ucrainica
- 2. Retrieving the Cultural Heritage and Displaced Ukrainian Archives
- International Appeals and a National Commission
- Potential Archival Pretensions
- Microform Copies
- Searching for International Norms
- 3. Provenance, Pertinence, and Patrimony: International Historical and Legal Precedents
- When “Records Follow the Flag”
- ICA Resolutions, Cagliari, and the 1978 UNESCO Report
- Archives and the Unratified 1983 Vienna Convention on the Succession of States
- Post-Soviet Discussion Continues
- Non-State Archives and the Post-Soviet Context
- United Nations and UNESCO Conventions and Resolutions Relating to Cultural Property
- Recent ICA Initiatives
- European-Wide Focus on Restitution at the Official Level
- Conclusions
- 4. Towards a Descriptive Typology of the Ukrainian Archival Heritage Abroad
- Institutional and Territorial Provenance
- Circumstances of Alienation and Subsequent Migration
- Present Location and Arrangement of Archival Ucrainica Abroad
- Agreements or Other Legal Factors Affecting Ownership
- 1. Defining the Archival Heritage of Ukraine: Russia and Pretensions of Soviet Successor States
- II. Displaced Archives during World War II and Its Aftermath
- 5. Measuring Losses in the World War II Context: Evacuation, Destruction, Plunder, and Retrieval
- Reinterpreting Destruction and Displacements: The Historiographic Context
- Soviet Losses and Destruction Reconsidered
- Nazi Archival Plunder
- Soviet Search and Retrieval Operations
- 6. Western Allied Restitution in the Postwar Context
- War Losses and Western Archival Restitution
- The Record of American Restitution
- Library and Archival Restitution Reconsidered
- Western Non-Restitution
- Captured Nazi Records and Anglo-American Restitution to Germany
- 7. Soviet Cultural Trophies: The Ukrainian Component
- Soviet Spoils of War
- Trophy Books and Manuscript Collections
- Trophy Books to Ukraine
- The Berlin Sing-Akademie Collection in Kyiv: A Case Study
- 8. Soviet Archival Plunder: Nazi Records and Nazi Archival Loot between Moscow and Kyiv
- Soviet Archival Plunder
- Captured Nazi Records with Nazi Archival Loot
- The “Special Archive,” Dispersal, and Soviet Restitution
- Captured Nazi Records in Ukraine
- 9. Émigré Archival Ucrainica Retrieved: Prague, Kyiv, and Moscow
- Émigré Rossica and Ucrainica and the End of the RZIA in Prague
- Ucrainica in Kyiv from Prague and Elsewhere
- Ucrainica and Rossica to Moscow
- Archival Ucrainica Retrieved in Kyiv
- 10. The Nationalization of Cultural Trophies in Russia: A New Cultural Cold War in Europe
- Russia’s Cultural Cold War with the European Community
- The Russian Battle over the Nationalization Law
- Ukrainian and Other International Reaction
- The Constitutional Court Rules
- Archival Restitution Qua Barter for Archival Rossica
- Russian Archival Information and Access Problems
- 11. Independent Ukraine and Poland: A New Climate for Restitution?
- Post-1991 Ukrainian–Polish Restitution Issues
- The Symbolic Ossolineum Divided
- Other Divided Polish Collections from Lviv
- Archival Ucrainica in Poland
- Other Polonica in Ukraine
- New Prospects for Negotiations
- 12. Independent Ukraine, Germany, and the International Context of Restitution
- The International Context of Displaced Archives for Ukraine
- Restitution Progress with Germany
- International Forums on Restitution Issues
- Displaced Art versus Displaced Archives
- Beyond the New York and Washington Conferences
- 5. Measuring Losses in the World War II Context: Evacuation, Destruction, Plunder, and Retrieval
- Conclusion
- Documentary Appendices
- I. UNESCO. “Report of the Director-General on the Study of Problems Involved in the Transfer of Documents from Archives in the Territory of Certain Countries to the Country of their Origin,” 25 August 1978 (20C/102)
- II. UN. International Law Commission, “Non-Exhaustive Table of Treaties Containing Provisions Relating to the Transfer of Archives in Cases of Succession of States”
- IIIa. UN. “Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect to State Property, Archives, and Debts, Part III, ‘State Archives (art. 19 :031),’” April 1983 (A/Conf. 117/14; has not yet come into force)
- IIIb. ICA. “Professional Advice on the Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of State Property, Archives, and Debts, Part III, ‘State Archives’ (art. 19 to 31)”
- IV. UN Resolution. “Return or Restitution of Cultural Property to the Countries of Origin,” 22 October 1991 (46/10)
- V. Agreement on the Right of Successor States to the State Archives of the Former USSR. “Soglashenie o pravopreemstve v otnoshenii gosudarstvennykh arkhivov byvshego Soiuza SSR.” Moscow, 6 July 1992 [with English translation]
- VI. Resolutions of XXXth International Conference of the Roundtable on Archives (CITRA). Thessalonica, 12–16 October 1994
- VII. “The View of the Archival Community on the Settling of Disputed Claims”: Position Paper Adopted by the Executive Committee of the International Council on Archives at Its Meeting in Guangzhou, 10–13 April 1995
- VIII. Official Act of Transfer from Prague and Select Communiqués Concerning the Ukrainian Historical Cabinet (U/K) under the Ministry of the Interior of the Czechoslovak Republic (October 1945) [in English translation]
- IX. OMGUS Report on Restitution of Soviet Cultural Property, Property Division, Restitution Branch, Richard F. Howard, Deputy Chief for Cultural Restitution (MFA&A), Karlsruhe, Germany, 20 September 1948
- X. Recommendations of the UNESCO Conference on Cultural Return, Kyiv, December 1996
- Selected Illustrations
- Bibliography
- I. Archival Sources
- II. International Legal Documentation
- III. National Legal Documentation
- IV. Symposia and Conference Proceedings, Collective Volumes, Series, and Serial Publications Relating to Cultural Valuables and Restitution
- V. Collections of Published Documents
- VI. Catalogs of Lost, Displaced, and Trophy Culture Treasures
- VII. Secondary Literature
- Index
HARVARD PAPERS IN UKRAINIAN STUDIES
Trophies of War and Empire
The Archival Heritage of Ukraine, World War II, and the International Politics of Restitution
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