Inventory of the Narodno-trudovoĭ soiuz samizdat collection
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
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Title: Narodno-trudovoĭ soiuz samizdat collection
Date (inclusive): 1960-1991
Collection Number: 2000C83
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Russian
Physical Description:
74 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 cardfile 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-trudovoĭ soiuz. Sound use copies of sound recordings available.
Creator:
Narodno-trudovoĭ soi͡uz
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Narodno-trudovoĭ soiuz samizdat collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library
& Archives.
Alternate Forms Available
Sound use copies of sound recordings available. Digital versions of selected photographs also available.
Biographical/Historical Note
Narodno-trudovoĭ 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-trudovoĭ 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.
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 Library & Archives Narodno-trudovoĭ soiuz samizdat collection.
M. Baranovich papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Aleksandr Suetnov papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Narodno-trudovoĭ soiuz declaration, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Constantin W. Boldyreff papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
George Miller-Kurakin papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Sergej Utechin interviews, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
B. Prianishnikov papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991
Soviet Union -- Civilization
Underground literature -- Soviet Union
Censorship -- Soviet Union
Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985
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
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
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
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