The documentation of communist security authorities : materials of the international conference, Warsaw, 4-5 October 2012 / edited by Władysław Stępniak.

Papers from the 12th International Conference of Central and East European State Achives (the 12th international conference from the series Colloquia Jerzy Skowronek dedicata) held in Warsaw, 4-5 October 2012.

Introductory statement: UNESCO on access to the archives of the security services of former repressive regimes, Władysław Stępniak (Poland, General Director of the State Archives) -- The special part of the National Documentary Fonds: the transfer of documents of former Soviet security forces and access to them. A case study of Lithuania / Ramojus Kraujeslis -- The legal basis of the records created by the communist security services and their current management in the Czech Republic / Lubomir Augustin -- Convictions and imprisonment in East Germany - Fonds in the Federal Archives / Kerstin Risse -- The records of the SED within the Foundation Archives of Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR in the Federal Archives / Hennig Pahl -- The Historical Memory Documentary Centre and documents created during the Franco Regime dictatorship / Manuel Melgar Camarzana -- Managing the records of the former secret services in the Republic of Slovenia / Tadej Cankar -- Managing STASI archives. Special tasks and challenges / Karsten Jedlitschka -- The archives of dictatorship in national archive of Portugal and in particular the police policy / Silvestra Almeida Lacerda, Ana Madureira -- On the Nation's Memory Institute Archive / Matej Medvecky, Lubomir Durina -- Access to the files of the communist security forces and elaboration of archival files of the communist security forces in the Czech Republic / Pavel Kugler -- Introductory statement: Institute of National Remembrance - more than just an archive, Łukasz Kamiński (Poland, President of the Institute of National Remembrance) -- Access to records of former security services in Latvia / Gatis Karlsons, Ainars Bambals, Aija Kalnciema -- Access to records created by repressive bodies: exigencies and expectations / Igor I. Grynyk -- Records of the former repressive bodies of the USSR (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) in the holdings of the Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine: problems of preservation and access / Svetlana Vlasenko --

From restricted to open access. Evolution of rules regarding the accessibility of documents of communist state security bodies / Rafał Leśkiewicz -- The Security Service of Ukraine for reviewing the confidentiality classification of the records of Soviet state security bodies and for granting public access to them / Svetlana Laskovskaya -- The real foundation of the state security force / Isa Xhaferi -- Archival holdings and the granting of access by state archives to the records of institutions of repression from the People's Republic of Poland / Kazimierz Kozłowski -- Methodological problems in researching the security services of the People's Republic of Poland / Witold Bagieński -- The current state and needs regarding research into archives prepared by the 'national division'of the security services in the People's Republic of Poland and the capabilities and conditions of using these archives for historical research as well as by auxiliary sciences of history / Franciszek Dąbrowski -- Digitization-a new form of international cooperation / Pavel Žáček -- Information technologies employed in the activities of the totalitarian regimes and the security services archive / Peter Rendek.

Papers, abstracts, and tables of contents in English, Polish, and Russian.