Arhivski vjesnik, No. 45, 2002.
Review article
Public Administration 1945-1952: Acquaintance with Governmental Structure, Creators Identifying and Fonds Creating Decisions
Rajka Bućin
Abstract
The article is preoccupied with methodological problems in the treatment of archives, being focused on the significance which the knowledge of history of institutions has in the arrangement and description of public administration archives.
Inside the recognized administrative period, we must be familiar with governemental structure as a whole, knowing all the institutions typieal for the time, same as data on them individually - on their mandates, changes of names, ete. - primary because of their signifieance in fonds creating deeisions, but not less in further arrangement and deseription endeavors.
Concious of the utmost importance which such data have archivists usually use offieial journals to follow and reconstruct changes of institutions in the past. A suceess of such efforts failed in the ease of 1945-1952 government.
The administration of the time was so concentrated on the changes of particular agencies mandates, ttying to reach more effectiveness in the system, that didn't save energy for publishing information on the executed changes in the Official Gazette of the People's Republic of Croatia on the regularly basis or even at all, or didn't consider it important. Diplomatic analysis ofcarchival documents (belonging to the period) demonstrates that administration wasn't quick enough not only to follow organizational changes - i. e. agencies unifications or separations or splitting of their mandates in all possible ways - publishing data on them, but even missed to echange the official seals on time.
It makes a review of existing agencies very unclear and hard to follow, especially that of so called administrative-operative governors (AOG: in Croatian AOR, administrativno operativni rukovodilac), which were the underministerial agencies dealing with "state companies of republic importance". The reconstructed history and development of such agencies - namely of main and general directorates of People's Republic of Croatia in the field of provisiong, food trade and food industry – based on sporadic ministerial decisions on them, together with content and diplomatic analysis of archival documents, demonstrates how hard tracking of them is.
The article finishes analysing administrative-operative governing function as an important element which defines position of these agencies vertically, and helps to make fonds creating decisions, respecting changes of agencies activity fields and names, and tracking their relationships with superordinated bodies, preserving so the provenance of documents and their context.
Keywords
records group; processing of archival fonds; archival methodology; 1945-1952
Hrčak ID:
9037
URI
Publication date:
1.4.2003.
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