Metadata : Modern Political Parties and Social Movements
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The Plekhanov House
- Holding institution (official language):
- Дом Плеханова
- Postal address:
- 190005, St. Petersburg, ul. 4-ia Krasnoarmeiskaia, 1/33
- Phone number:
- (812) 316-74-11
- Web address:
- http://www.nlr.ru/coll/housePleh/
- Email:
- domplekh@nlr.ru
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The Plekhanov House
- Holding institution (official language):
- Дом Плеханова
- Postal address:
- 190005, St. Petersburg, ul. 4-ia Krasnoarmeiskaia, 1/33
- Phone number:
- (812) 316-74-11
- Web address:
- http://www.nlr.ru/coll/housePleh/
- Email:
- domplekh@nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1473
- Title:
- Modern Political Parties and Social Movements
- Title (official language):
- СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ ПАРТИИ И ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫЕ ДВИЖЕНИЯ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Modern Political Parties and Social Movements
- Date(s):
- 1987/2013
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- approx. 5,000 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
[Supplementation of the fonds with new materials is ongoing, and it was being processed when this description was written. Information given is as of 30 May 2013.] Pertaining to the history of Jews in Russia are mainly printed and manuscript documents (op. 1, 2) connected with the so-called alternative press in Russia. Among these are newspapers of political parties of the Russian Federation and religious (mainly Christian) youth, military, and veterans’ publications, and in particular, The Russian Sword (Russian Imperial Society); The Russian Veche [Popular Assembly] and The Russian Front of Muscovy (National Great-Power Party of Russia); The Russian Renaissance, For the Russian Cause, Russian Truth, and For Rus’! (the Russian National Liberation Movement); The Right View, Imperial Courier, and Imperial View (the Russian Imperial Movement); the antifascist journal Barrier; Banner of the Fatherland (National Party of Russia); Orthodox Tocsin (the All-Russian Orthodox Patriotic Movement); First and Last (a publication of Russian Orthodox anti-globalists); On Guard for Russian Orthodoxy (International Social People’s Movement); For the Right to Live without Individual Tax IDs, Personal Codes, and Microchips and We are Russian! (the National Movement of Russia); The Nationalist (National Liberation Party); The Heavenly Horseman (National Conservative Party); All-Russian Convocation, Russian Discussion, and Russian Order (Russian National Unity); Russian March and Russian Revanche (Russian Nationalist Youth League); The Russian Cause (National Democratic Party); I am Russian (People’s National Party); Stormtrooper (Russian National League); etc. (1987-2010).
The nationalist publications housed in the fonds discuss the subject of Jewry in parallel with their description of contemporary Russian social problems (drug addiction, alcoholism, moral degradation) as allegedly stemming from the harmful “corrupting” influence of the West; they offer various interpretations of historical events, and in particular, there are articles attempting to prove that Jesus Christ was of Slavic origin, and thus overturn the notion of any continuity between Judaism and Christianity; articles denying the involvement of Black Hundreds in the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1905-06; expressing the belief that Jews have been guilty of ritual murders (the Beilis affair); accusing Russian Jews of being responsible for the Bolshevik coup of 1917 (The Russian Veche; The Right View; We are Russian!); tendentiously interpreting the “Doctors’ Plot”; describing Zionism as a “psychosis” and disputing the number of Jews who perished in the Holocaust, or denying it entirely (For Rus’!); etc.
A considerable number of publications are devoted to the “worldwide Judeo-Masonic conspiracy” supposedly controlling world capital and aiming to destroy Russia; in such assertions, emphasis is placed on the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”; many publications of this sort provide reprints of articles and works that dealt with “the Jewish question” in the Russian Empire, and in particular, there are excerpts from Dostoevsky’s Diary of a Writer, P. P. Krestovskii’s “The Zhid is Coming!,” V. Rozanov’s correspondence with Father Pavel Florenskii; etc. (The Right View; We are Russian!).
Some publications print antisemitic poetry; modern and reprinted caricatures of Jews; and also photographs and collages dealing with the subject of Jews (For the Russian Cause; Barrier; Imperial Courier); in particular, there is a photograph of “Jews hanged in June 1941 in L’vov (those who had collaborated with Soviet power”) (The Heavenly Horseman). There is tendentious coverage of modern Israel (the Arab-Israeli conflict; the issue of Russian Church property) and Russia (the explosion at the synagogue in Moscow’s Maryina roshcha district; the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Kazan’ in 2007; etc.); etc.
The fonds also houses a selection of issues of Nash golos [Our Voice], the newspaper of the Jewish communities of Moldova and the city of Odessa, which discusses events of significance to Jewish communities both of Moldova and the world at large; there are excerpts from books on Jewish history; articles on the life of former citizens of Russia who emigrated to Israel; excerpts from stories in Yiddish; etc.
- Archival history:
- The Plekhanov House is a structural subdivision (department) of the National Library of Russia and constitutes a research centre for the study of the history of the Russian and international revolutionary and social movements, and the history of culture and education. The core of its fonds consists of the archive and library of Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918), the philosopher, public commentator, and prominent figure in the revolutionary movement who was one of the founders of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDRP). In 1925 these materials were turned over to the Committee to Memorialize G. V. Plekhanov by his widow R. M. Plekhanova (nee Bograd) on the condition that they always be stored together as a unit. The grand opening of the Plekhanov House took place 11 June 1929 at the conference hall of the former Free Economic Society. In accordance with the conditions of the agreement between the committee and the State Public Library board, G. V. Plekhanov’s heritage had to be housed in a separate building with a particular staff; this became a standalone branch of the library. The library board accepted the proposed conditions, and by the spring of 1931 the construction and furnishing of the new building of the Plekhanov House were complete. For the final twenty years of her life R. M. Plekhanova served as director of the Plekhanov House and was involved in organising its fonds; along with her husband’s archive, these housed documents of members of the Liberation of Labor group and their comrades and fellow-thinkers, and numerous other materials. Simultaneously with the processing of the fonds in 1929-30, catalogues and card files began to be organised, including for the Plekhanov library; and materials connected with Plekhanov’s life and activities were collected. Analysis of Plekhanov’s archive, its scholarly inventorying and attribution, and the transcription of markings in it, is currently ongoing.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This collection includes manuscript and print materials (books, posters, placards, leaflets, alternative periodicals, and documents with manuscript markings and dedicatory inscriptions). The collection houses issues of the official newspapers of the following parties and social movements of Russia: the Russian Imperial Movement – a Russian Orthodox national-patriotic and monarchist organisation founded in 2005 by activists of the All-Russian Party of the Monarchist Center (the movement’s main goal is to restore the Russian autocratic monarchy as the form of state governance most suited to Russian national-historical, political, and religious traditions); the People’s National Party – an ultra-right political organisation established in 1994 as a movement of populist-nationalists; the National Great-Power Party of Russia – a Russian nationalist public association that until 2003 had the status of a political party (established in 2002); the basis of its program is the idea of a Russian national populist-socialist state; Russian National Unity (RNE) – a pan-Russian ultranationalist social movement founded in 1990, whose doctrine recognises Russia as the state of both Russians and compatriots of Russia, i.e., the country’s non-Slavic native peoples (the RNE has monarchist sympathies, although it believes that a Russian national dictatorship or regency must be established before autocracy can be reborn in Russia; and that legislative power should be constructed on the basis of representation by estate and ethnicity); the Arkaim All-People’s Cossack movement – this is a militarised neo-pagan religious organisation aiming to unite all Cossack movements of Russia; etc.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Dostoevsky
- Florenskii, Pavel
- Krestovskii, P. P.
- Rozanov, V.
- Subject terms:
- Aliyah
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic publications
- Beilis affair
- Black Hundreds
- Blood libel
- Cemeteries
- Doctors' Plot
- Freemasons
- Holocaust
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Jewish press
- Jewish Question
- Literature
- Literature--Novels, poetry, and plays
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Nationalism
- Photographs
- Pogroms
- State of Israel
- Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes two inventories (each in three parts) systematised by document type.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Reference number:
- F. 1473
- Title:
- Modern Political Parties and Social Movements
- Title (official language):
- СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ ПАРТИИ И ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫЕ ДВИЖЕНИЯ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Modern Political Parties and Social Movements
- Date(s):
- 1987/2013
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- approx. 5,000 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
[Supplementation of the fonds with new materials is ongoing, and it was being processed when this description was written. Information given is as of 30 May 2013.] Pertaining to the history of Jews in Russia are mainly printed and manuscript documents (op. 1, 2) connected with the so-called alternative press in Russia. Among these are newspapers of political parties of the Russian Federation and religious (mainly Christian) youth, military, and veterans’ publications, and in particular, The Russian Sword (Russian Imperial Society); The Russian Veche [Popular Assembly] and The Russian Front of Muscovy (National Great-Power Party of Russia); The Russian Renaissance, For the Russian Cause, Russian Truth, and For Rus’! (the Russian National Liberation Movement); The Right View, Imperial Courier, and Imperial View (the Russian Imperial Movement); the antifascist journal Barrier; Banner of the Fatherland (National Party of Russia); Orthodox Tocsin (the All-Russian Orthodox Patriotic Movement); First and Last (a publication of Russian Orthodox anti-globalists); On Guard for Russian Orthodoxy (International Social People’s Movement); For the Right to Live without Individual Tax IDs, Personal Codes, and Microchips and We are Russian! (the National Movement of Russia); The Nationalist (National Liberation Party); The Heavenly Horseman (National Conservative Party); All-Russian Convocation, Russian Discussion, and Russian Order (Russian National Unity); Russian March and Russian Revanche (Russian Nationalist Youth League); The Russian Cause (National Democratic Party); I am Russian (People’s National Party); Stormtrooper (Russian National League); etc. (1987-2010).
The nationalist publications housed in the fonds discuss the subject of Jewry in parallel with their description of contemporary Russian social problems (drug addiction, alcoholism, moral degradation) as allegedly stemming from the harmful “corrupting” influence of the West; they offer various interpretations of historical events, and in particular, there are articles attempting to prove that Jesus Christ was of Slavic origin, and thus overturn the notion of any continuity between Judaism and Christianity; articles denying the involvement of Black Hundreds in the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1905-06; expressing the belief that Jews have been guilty of ritual murders (the Beilis affair); accusing Russian Jews of being responsible for the Bolshevik coup of 1917 (The Russian Veche; The Right View; We are Russian!); tendentiously interpreting the “Doctors’ Plot”; describing Zionism as a “psychosis” and disputing the number of Jews who perished in the Holocaust, or denying it entirely (For Rus’!); etc.
A considerable number of publications are devoted to the “worldwide Judeo-Masonic conspiracy” supposedly controlling world capital and aiming to destroy Russia; in such assertions, emphasis is placed on the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”; many publications of this sort provide reprints of articles and works that dealt with “the Jewish question” in the Russian Empire, and in particular, there are excerpts from Dostoevsky’s Diary of a Writer, P. P. Krestovskii’s “The Zhid is Coming!,” V. Rozanov’s correspondence with Father Pavel Florenskii; etc. (The Right View; We are Russian!).
Some publications print antisemitic poetry; modern and reprinted caricatures of Jews; and also photographs and collages dealing with the subject of Jews (For the Russian Cause; Barrier; Imperial Courier); in particular, there is a photograph of “Jews hanged in June 1941 in L’vov (those who had collaborated with Soviet power”) (The Heavenly Horseman). There is tendentious coverage of modern Israel (the Arab-Israeli conflict; the issue of Russian Church property) and Russia (the explosion at the synagogue in Moscow’s Maryina roshcha district; the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Kazan’ in 2007; etc.); etc.
The fonds also houses a selection of issues of Nash golos [Our Voice], the newspaper of the Jewish communities of Moldova and the city of Odessa, which discusses events of significance to Jewish communities both of Moldova and the world at large; there are excerpts from books on Jewish history; articles on the life of former citizens of Russia who emigrated to Israel; excerpts from stories in Yiddish; etc.
- Archival history:
- The Plekhanov House is a structural subdivision (department) of the National Library of Russia and constitutes a research centre for the study of the history of the Russian and international revolutionary and social movements, and the history of culture and education. The core of its fonds consists of the archive and library of Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918), the philosopher, public commentator, and prominent figure in the revolutionary movement who was one of the founders of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDRP). In 1925 these materials were turned over to the Committee to Memorialize G. V. Plekhanov by his widow R. M. Plekhanova (nee Bograd) on the condition that they always be stored together as a unit. The grand opening of the Plekhanov House took place 11 June 1929 at the conference hall of the former Free Economic Society. In accordance with the conditions of the agreement between the committee and the State Public Library board, G. V. Plekhanov’s heritage had to be housed in a separate building with a particular staff; this became a standalone branch of the library. The library board accepted the proposed conditions, and by the spring of 1931 the construction and furnishing of the new building of the Plekhanov House were complete. For the final twenty years of her life R. M. Plekhanova served as director of the Plekhanov House and was involved in organising its fonds; along with her husband’s archive, these housed documents of members of the Liberation of Labor group and their comrades and fellow-thinkers, and numerous other materials. Simultaneously with the processing of the fonds in 1929-30, catalogues and card files began to be organised, including for the Plekhanov library; and materials connected with Plekhanov’s life and activities were collected. Analysis of Plekhanov’s archive, its scholarly inventorying and attribution, and the transcription of markings in it, is currently ongoing.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This collection includes manuscript and print materials (books, posters, placards, leaflets, alternative periodicals, and documents with manuscript markings and dedicatory inscriptions). The collection houses issues of the official newspapers of the following parties and social movements of Russia: the Russian Imperial Movement – a Russian Orthodox national-patriotic and monarchist organisation founded in 2005 by activists of the All-Russian Party of the Monarchist Center (the movement’s main goal is to restore the Russian autocratic monarchy as the form of state governance most suited to Russian national-historical, political, and religious traditions); the People’s National Party – an ultra-right political organisation established in 1994 as a movement of populist-nationalists; the National Great-Power Party of Russia – a Russian nationalist public association that until 2003 had the status of a political party (established in 2002); the basis of its program is the idea of a Russian national populist-socialist state; Russian National Unity (RNE) – a pan-Russian ultranationalist social movement founded in 1990, whose doctrine recognises Russia as the state of both Russians and compatriots of Russia, i.e., the country’s non-Slavic native peoples (the RNE has monarchist sympathies, although it believes that a Russian national dictatorship or regency must be established before autocracy can be reborn in Russia; and that legislative power should be constructed on the basis of representation by estate and ethnicity); the Arkaim All-People’s Cossack movement – this is a militarised neo-pagan religious organisation aiming to unite all Cossack movements of Russia; etc.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Dostoevsky
- Florenskii, Pavel
- Krestovskii, P. P.
- Rozanov, V.
- Subject terms:
- Aliyah
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic publications
- Beilis affair
- Black Hundreds
- Blood libel
- Cemeteries
- Doctors' Plot
- Freemasons
- Holocaust
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Jewish press
- Jewish Question
- Literature
- Literature--Novels, poetry, and plays
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Nationalism
- Photographs
- Pogroms
- State of Israel
- Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes two inventories (each in three parts) systematised by document type.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
