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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.
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Narodno-trudovoi soiuz samizdat collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2000.
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.
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
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.
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 online at
http://media.hoover.org/documents/NTSsamizdat_0.pdf .
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.