Overview of the ProfTek records

Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff

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Title: ProfTEK records

Date (inclusive): 1988-2010

Collection Number: 2014C31

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: Russian

Physical Description: 7 manuscript boxes (2.6 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, statements, bylaws, and legal and financial records, relating to the independent labor movement in post-Soviet Russia.

Creator: ProfTEK.

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2014.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], ProfTEK records, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Biographical / Historical

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.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, minutes, statements, bylaws, and legal and financial records, relating to the independent labor movement in post-Soviet Russia.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Labor movement -- Russia (Federation)

Labor unions -- Russia (Federation)

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