Some problems of classification of diplomatic documents

Abstract

The article discusses the importance of diplomatic documents as historical source, as well as the problems of diplomatic document's classification. The author presents to the reader opinions on the possible classification of diplomatic documents, gives the relevance of this problem in the frameworl of general source study and national source study. There analyzed new types of diplomatic sources. This article discusses and analyzes various approaches of classification options of diplomatic documents, the author believes that the above authors classified diplomatic documents from the point of view of practical diplomacy.