The collection of the L’viv Oblast Party Archive was a part of the Stalin Era Research and Archives Project (SERAP) which was undertaken by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (now: the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs) in the 1990s. The material was collected by Jeffrey Burds, now an Associate Professor of History, and the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Russia and the Soviet Union, at Northeastern University.
This collection consists of photocopies of documents from the former Communist Party of L’viv (now: Department of Public Associations at the State Archive of L’viv Oblast; or Viddil hromads’kykh ob’iednan’ Derzhavnoho arkhivu L’vivs’koi oblasti). Most of this material consists of reports, inquiries, memoranda, records, and meeting transcripts of secretaries of the regional, district, and city party committees of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The documents contain information from the regional party committee on the implementation of decisions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers, as well reports of the L’viv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on such activities as strengthening ideological work among the public and the fight with the Ukrainian nationalist underground movement.