Inventory of the Narodno-trudovoi soiuz samizdat collection
Finding aid prepared by Lyalya Kharitonova.
Hoover Institution Archives
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Stanford University
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Title: Narodno-trudovoi soiuz samizdat collection
Date (inclusive): 1960-1991
Collection Number: 2000C83
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
73 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 card file box
(33.8 linear feet)
Abstract: The collection contains novels, poems, and articles submitted for publication, as well as periodicals, pamphlets, speeches
and writings, press releases, statements, petitions, photographs, slides, films, and sound recordings, published or circulated
by underground and uncensored presses or groups in the Soviet Union, relating to political and cultural conditions in the
Soviet Union and collected by the Narodno-trudovoi soiuz. Sound use copies of sound recordings available.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Access
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Narodno-trudovoi soiuz samizdat collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Related Materials
The most complete collection of samizdat in the West is the Arkhiv Samizdata of the Research Department of Radio Liberty in
Munich (now at the Open Society Archives in Budapest). However, that collection does not include poetry, novels and other
literature widely represented in the Hoover Institution Archives Narodno-trudovoi soiuz samizdat collection.
M. Baranovich papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Aleksandr Suetnov papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Narodno-trudovoi soiuz declaration, Hoover Institution Archives
Constantin W. Boldyreff papers, Hoover Institution Archives
George Miller-Kurakin papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Sergej Utechin interviews, Hoover Institution Archives
B. Prianishnikov papers, Hoover Institution Archives
Biographical/Historical Note
Narodno-trudovoi soiuz (National Alliance of Russian Solidarists, known by its Russian abbreviation "NTS") was founded in
1930 by a group of young Russian "White émigrés" in Serbia. As a Russian patriotic, anticommunist organization, the NTS fought
communism by studying Soviet culture to understand the soul of people living in the USSR. It is the largest and most active
political association of Russian émigrés in Western Germany.
Beginning in 1945, the NTS published the monthly magazine Posev and the literary review Grani, often featuring anti-Soviet
samizdat literature smuggled from the USSR.
Samizdat is dissident literature written by Soviet citizens that would not be accepted by Soviet authorities for publication
in the USSR. The name Samizdat combines the word sam (self, by oneself), and izdat, the abbreviation of izdatel'stvo (Publishing
house). Such literature was available only as handwritten or typewritten copies, distributed secretly among trusted people.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains novels, poems, and articles submitted for publication, as well as periodicals, pamphlets, speeches
and writings, press releases, statements, petitions, photographs, slides, film, and sound recordings, related to political,
social, and economic conditions in the Soviet Union and collected by the Narodno-trudovoi soiuz.
Samizdat documents that were created in the former Soviet Union reflect the interests and activities of dissidents. The materials
were smuggled abroad for publication in the West and collected by the NTS publishing house Posev.
The materials were cataloged by NTS. As of 31 March 2000 more then 3442 documents were arranged by serial number roughly in
chronological order by the date of arrival, although not all documents here are numbered.
The materials are arranged by the numbering system assigned by NTS. Each number consists of two components: a number assigned
sequentially and a year of creation in two-digit abbreviation (ie. 1968 would be 68). For example, number 139/66 is the 139
document acquired, which dates from 1966. Not all sequential numbers are included in the collection and the material is not
in exact chronological order.
The date of arrival at NTS is later than the date of document creation since it took some time to deliver the materials to
the West. The title, type of document, physical form, and information on publication may be found in the NTS item catalog.
Items without numbers are listed by title at the end of the numerical sequence.
The materials were arranged in two categories by NTS: Samizdat and Oversize samizdat. The Hoover Institution separated other
formats for preservation. Now the materials are arranged by size and physical form and are divided into four categories: (1)
Samizdat files, (2) Oversize samizdat files, (3) Film, slides, and negatives (4) Sound recordings.
Arrangement
Records are arranged as originally received from the organization; generally by the Narodno-trudovoi soiuz number. Each number
consists of two components: a number assigned sequentially and a year in two-digit abbreviation (ie. 1968 would be 68). For
example, number 139/66 is the 139th document, which dates from 1966. Not all sequential numbers are included in the collection
and the material is not in exact chronological order.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Narodno-trudovoi soiuz.
Censorship--Soviet Union.
Phonotapes.
Soviet Union--Civilization.
Soviet Union--History--1953-1985.
Soviet Union--History--1985-1991.
Underground literature--Soviet Union.
Box: 1-53.
Samizdat files,
1960-1991.
Scope and Contents note
Contains novels, poems, articles, periodicals, statements, petitions, and press releases. Arranged by NTS number (each NTS
number consists of two components: a number assigned sequentially and a year of creation in two-digit abbreviation) Not all
sequential numbers are in the collection, and the material is not in exact chronological order. An itemized list in Russian
matching the item number with a title and other information created by NTS and updated by Hoover Institution staff may be
found in the Appendix.
Box: 1
97/67.
General note
See also boxes 66 and 73
Box: 6
531/69.
General note
See also box 75
Box: 6
558/70.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 7
593/70.
General note
See boxes 64 and 73
Box: 7
613/70.
General note
See boxes 68 and 73
Box: 8
639/70.
General note
See also box 65
Box: 8
671/71.
General note
See also box 65
Box: 8
672/71.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 8
674/71.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 8
675/71-679/71.
General note
See boxes 66, 73, and 76
Box: 8
680/71.
General note
See boxes 64, 66, 67, and 73
Box: 9
707/72.
General note
See boxes 55 and 56
Box: 9
717/72-724/72.
General note
See also box 73
Box: 9
734/73.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 9
752/73-757/73.
General note
See boxes 56 and 76
Box: 9
758/73.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 9
759/73-760/73.
General note
See boxes 54 and 76
Box: 9
761/73.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 10
762/73-766/73.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 10
793/74.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 10
796/74.
General note
See boxes 54, 76 and 77
Box: 10
797/74.
General note
See box 56 and 76
Box: 10
799/74.
General note
See boxes 54, 58 and 75
Box: 10
815/74.
General note
See boxes 63 and 76
Box: 10
817/74.
General note
See boxes 58 and 75
Box: 10
819/74.
General note
See boxes 75 and 76
Box: 10
835/74.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 11
888/75-889/75.
General note
See also box 73
Box: 11
892/75-895/75.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 12
925/76.
General note
See boxes 55 and 76
Box: 12
957/76.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 13
978/77-982/77.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 13
984/77-986/77.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 13
1000/77-1003/77.
General note
See also box 73
Box: 14
1004/77-1008/77.
General note
See also box 73
Box: 14
1020/77.
General note
See boxes 68 and 76
Box: 15
1055/78-1056/78.
General note
See also box 73
Box: 15
1057/78.
General note
See boxes 62 and 73
Box: 15
1061/78.
General note
See also box 63
Box: 15
1069/78-1071/78.
General note
See also box 73
Box: 15
1072/78.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 15
1076/78.
General note
See also box74
Box: 18
1219/79.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 20
1315/81.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 20
1329/81-1331/81.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 20
1338/81-1341/81.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 20
1345/81.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 20
1347/81.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 21
1352/81.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 21
1355/81-1356/81.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 21
1377/82-1378/82.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 21
1381/82-1384/2.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 21
1393/82-1394/82.
General note
See also boxes 59 and 74
Box: 21
1396/82.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 21
1398/82.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 21
1414/82.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 22
1416/82-1422/82.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 22
1427/82.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 22
1441/82.
General note
See also box 77
Box: 22
1500/83-1504/83.
General note
See boxes 63 and 74
Box: 22
1504A/83.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 22
1505/83-1507/83.
General note
See boxes 63 and 74
Box: 25
1595/85.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 25
1611/85-1613/85.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 25
1614/85.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 25
1622/85.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 26
1676/86.
General note
See also box 75
Box: 26
1682/86.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 26
1683/86.
General note
See also box 75
Box: 27
1701/87.
General note
See also box 77
Box: 27
1727/87-1729/87.
General note
See also box 75
Box: 27
1732/87-1733/87.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 29
1809/88.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 31
1951/88.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 32
1980/88-1997/88.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 35
2116/88.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 36
2169/82-2172/89.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 36
2199/89-2210/89.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 38
2309/89.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 43
2604/89.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 45
2793/90.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 45
2800/90-2808/90.
General note
See also box 74
Box: 54-72.
Oversize samizdat files,
1963-1990.
Scope and Contents note
Materials separated from the main group of materials and designated "oversize" by NTS. Includes manuscripts, photocopies,
and printed matter. Arranged by format for preservation, for the numerical and title list see:
http://media.hoover.org/documents/NTSsamizdat_0.pdf .
Box: 54
799/74.
General note
See also boxes 58 and 75
Box: 55
925/76.
General note
See also box 76
Box: 58
799/74.
General note
See also boxes 55 and 75
Box: 63
1057/78.
General note
See also box 73
Box: 64
593/70.
General note
See also box 73
Box: 64
680/71.
General note
See also boxes 66, 67, and 73
Box: 67
680/71.
General note
See also boxes 64, 66 and 73
Box: 68
613/70.
General note
See also box 73
Box: 68
"ADRIAN-ein deutsches Märchen," by Hasso Laudon,
1968
Box: 68
"Cheshskii samizdat,"
1969
Box: 68
"Otzyv na Odin Den' Ivana Denisovicha," by anonymous author,
1963
Box: 69
"Konets puti Vasiliia Nikitenkova," by anonymous author,
1971
Box: 69
Magazine articles, by Mark Popovskii,
1977
Box: 69
"Khristos v nashi dni, v Rossii..," by Dmitrii Dudko,
1975
Box: 69
"Preodolenie soblaznov," by Dmitrii Dudko,
1975
Box: 69
"Da voskresnet Bog," by Dmitrii Dudko,
1969
Box: 70
"Rossiiskie vedomosti," #8-12,
1988
Box: 70
"Vozrozhdenie," bulletin, #24, Nizhnii Tagil,
1989
Box: 70
"Otkrytoe pis'mo," ierodiakon Dionisii,
1987
Box: 70
"Latviia," Latviiskoe Nezavisimoe Infomatsionnoe Agenstvo, bulletin,
1988
Box: 70
Peterburgskii Monarkhicheskii Tsentr, programma,
1990
Box: 70
"Golos Truda," "Russkoe Delo," Konfederatsiia Anarkho-Sindikalistov, Novosibirsk,
1990
Box: 70
"Nasha pozitsiia," Demokraticheskaia partiia Rossii,
1989
Box: 70
"Ustav Natsional'no-demokraticheskoi organizatsii "Svobodnaia Rossiia,"
1990
Box: 70
"Sovetskaia tragediia," by anonymous author,
1998
Box: 70
"Pliuralizm sk orostei," by Viktor Vinokurov, Grigorii Starunov, and others, Ul'ianovsk,
1990
Box: 70
"Stikhi," by Viktor Bozhii, M. Bestuzhev, and Il'ia Bokshtein,
1962-1968
Box: 70
"Demoktaticheskii tsentr," listovka,
1988
Box: 70
"Vsesoiuznyi sovet mnogodetnykh semei," proposals,
1988
Box: 70
"Gorod na plakhe," by Mikhail Zotov,
1988
Box: 70
"K predstoiashchei avgustovskoi konferentsii," press-tsentr "Obshchina,"
1988
Box: 70
"Ob otnoshenii k partii "Demokraticheskii soiuz,"
1988
Box: 70
"Printsipy organizatsii i osnovnye tseli "Narodnogo Fronta,"
1988
Box: 70
Informatsionnoe Agentstvo SMOT, bulletin #7,
June 1988
Box: 70
"Roman gazeta," informatsionnoe prilozhenie, #2, Leningrad,
1988
Box: 70
"Gosudarstvennomy Sekretariu SSHa g-nu Shultsu," 1987, appeal from Zviad Gamsaxurdia,
1987
Scope and Contents note
Includes other documents related to civil rights in Georgia
Box: 73-76
Film, slides, and negatives,
1969-1990.
Scope and Contents note
Contains films, slides, and negatives. Arranged by physical form, then by NTS number.
Access
Please note that not all of this material is immediately accessible. To view the material in this series during your visit,
please contact the Archives at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of
the material you wish to see.
Alternate Forms Available
Items listed in this section with a "See also" note are available as paper copies in the box number listed. The paper copies
were received by the Hoover Archives along with the photographic materials. The Hoover Archives is not able to verify that
the paper copies duplicate every image contained in the photographic version of the same item.
Some of the photographic items were digitized by the Hoover Archives and are available on workstations in the reading room.
Due to their physical condition the photographic materials are extremely difficult to digitize, so relatively few have been
digitized.
Box: 73
97/67.
General note
See also box 66
Box: 73
593/70.
General note
See also box 64
Box: 73
613/70.
General note
See also box 68
Box: 73
676/71.
General note
See also box 66
Box: 73
680/71.
General note
See also boxes 64, 66, and 67
Box: 73
717/72-724/72.
General note
See also box 9
Box: 73
888/75-889/75.
General note
See also box 11
Box: 74
1072/78.
General note
See also box 15
Box: 74
1076/78.
General note
See also box 15
Box: 74
1315/81-1316/81.
General note
See also box 20
Box: 74
1329/81-1331/81.
General note
See also box 20
Box: 74
1335/81.
General note
See also box 20
Box: 74
1337/81-1343/81.
General note
See also box 20
Box: 74
1345/81.
General note
See also box 20
Box: 74
1347/81.
General note
See also box 20
Box: 74
1352/81.
General note
See also box 21
Box: 74
1355/81-1356/81.
General note
See also box 21
Box: 74
1377/82-1379/82.
General note
See also box 21
Box: 74
1381/82-1384/82.
General note
See also boxes 21 and 59
Box: 74
1392/82-1394/82.
General note
See also box 21
Box: 74
1396/82.
General note
See also box 21
Box: 74
1398/82.
General note
See also box 21
Box: 74
1414/82.
General note
See also box 21
Box: 74
2604/89.
General note
See also box 43
Box: 74
1416/82-1422/82.
General note
See also box 22
Box: 74
1427/82.
General note
See also box 22
Box: 74
1500/82-1507/82.
General note
See also box 63
Box: 74
1595/85.
General note
See also box 25
Box: 74
1611/85-1613/85.
General note
See also box 25
Box: 74
1622/85.
General note
See also box 25
Box: 74
1732/87-1733/87.
General note
See also box 27
Box: 74
1809/88.
General note
See also box 29
Box: 74
2116/88.
General note
See also box 35
Box: 74
2169/89-2172/89.
General note
See also box 36
Box: 74
2199/89-2202/89.
General note
See also box 36
Box: 74
2309/89.
General note
See also box 38
Box: 74
2793/90.
General note
See also box 45
Box: 74
2800/90-2808/90.
General note
See also box 45
Box: 75
"Taina Bukharina," by G. Z. Saraikin,
1990
Box: 75
531/69.
General note
See also box 58
Box: 75
817/74.
General note
See also box 58
Box: 75
819/74.
General note
See also boxes 10 and 76
Box: 75
799/74.
General note
See also boxes 54 and 58
Box: 75
1676/86.
General note
See also box 26
Box: 75
1727/87-1729/87.
General note
See also box 27
Box: 76
558/70.
General note
See also box 6
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
672/71.
General note
See also box 8
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
674/71.
General note
See also box 8
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
677/71.
General note
See also box 8
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available (675/71, 677/71, 678/71).
Box: 76
716/72
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
734/73.
General note
See also box 9
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
739/73
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
740/73
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
751/73-753/73.
General note
See also box 9
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copies available.
Box: 76
756/73-758/73.
General note
See also box 9
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copies available (756/73, 759/73).
Box: 76
760/73-766/73.
General note
See also box 9
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copies available.
Box: 76
793/74.
General note
See also box 10
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
796/74.
General note
See also boxes 54 and 77
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
797/74.
General note
See also box 56
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
815/74.
General note
See also box 63
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
819/74.
General note
See also boxes 10 and 75
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copies available (819/74 and 831/74).
Box: 76
835/74.
General note
See also box 10
Box: 76
892/7-895/75.
General note
See also box 11
Box: 76
925/76.
General note
See also box 55
Box: 76
957/76.
General note
See also box 12
Box: 76
978/77-982/77.
General note
See also box 13
Box: 76
984/77-986/77.
General note
See also box 13
Box: 76
1020/77.
General note
See also box 68
Box: 76
1219/79.
General note
See also box 18
Box: 76
1323/81-1332/81.
General note
See also box 20
Box: 76
1614/85
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available.
Box: 76
1682/86.
General note
See also box 26
Box: 76
1702/87
Alternate Forms Available
Digital use copy available (1702/87 and 1954/87).
Box: 76
1980/88-1985/88.
General note
See also box 32
Box: 76
1996/88-1997/88.
General note
See also box 32
Box: 77
Sound recordings,
1982-1988.
Scope and Contents note
Contains compact sound cassette tapes. Most of the recordings are available for use in digital format. Arranged by NTS number
or title for unnumbered items
Box: 77
1441/82.
General note
See also box 22. Use copy available, 2000c83_a_0003808_a01
Box: 77
1482/82.1.
General note
Use copy available: 2000c83_a_0003802_a01
Box: 77
1482/82.2.
General note
Use copy available: 2000c83_a_0003811_a01
Box: 77
1701/87.
General note
See also box 27. Use copy available: 2000c83_a_0003800_a01
Box: 77
1797/88.
General note
See also box 28
Box: 77
Interview with Valerii Abramkin (2 cassettes),
9/9/1988.
General note
Use copies available: 2000c83_a_0003790_a01_pt01; 2000c83_a_0003800_a01_pt02
Box: 77
"Pamiat'," Demonstratsiia v Moskve, vstrecha s B.N. El'tsynym (2 cassettes),
1988
Box: 77
Unidentified records (Russian songs), (3 cassettes).
General note
Use copies available: 2000c83_a_0003786_a01_pt01; 2000c83_a_0003786_a01_pt02; 2000c83_a_0003786_a01_pt03
