Description
Correspondence, minutes, statements, bylaws, and legal and financial records, relating to the independent labor movement in
post-Soviet Russia.
Background
Independent Russian labor union emerging in the USSR in the late 1980s among workers of the Leningrad/Saint Petersburg municipal
heating and energy complex. Though the organization is officially called ProfTEK, deciphered that would read Professional'nyi
soiuz [rabotnikov] Teplo-energeticheskogo kompleksa. The independent trade union movement flourished during the late 1980s
and early 1990s. Rising in the same fashion as Poland's Solidarity - as a movement in opposition to official trade unions
- these new independent organizations were always too split by factionalism, local interests, petty politics, and personal
antagonisms to survive, the more so in a political atmosphere that, by the 2000s, was hostile to the existence and development
of independent political movements.
Extent
7 manuscript boxes
(2.6 Linear Feet)
Restrictions
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Availability
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.