ProfTek records, 1988-2010

Collection context

Summary

Title:
ProfTEK records
Dates:
1988-2010
Creators:
ProfTEK.
Abstract:
Correspondence, minutes, statements, bylaws, and legal and financial records, relating to the independent labor movement in post-Soviet Russia.
Extent:
7 manuscript boxes (2.6 Linear Feet)
Language:
Russian
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Scope and content:

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

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.

Acquisition information:
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2014.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-30 14:35:14.767182

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

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

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563