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Last update of repository: 15 February 2021

Gosudarstvennaia publichnaia istoricheskaia biblioteka Rossii (GPIB)


Sektor fondov netraditsionnoi pechati Tsentra sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii
[Sector of Fonds of Nontraditional Imprints of the Center of Socio-Political History]

Telephone: +7 499 187-99-45

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: http://www.shpl.ru/about_library/stru...

Opening hours: by appointment

Main Librarien: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Leont'ev (tel. +7 499 187-99-45)


Holdings
books—ca. 6,000 (2nd half 20th c.–to present); newspapers—ca. 3,500 titles (2nd half 20th c.–to present); journals—ca. 1,000 (2nd half 20th c.–to present); posters and leaflets—ca. 30,000 (2nd half 20th c.–to present)

In 1989 the library started a special collection of nontraditional press, which includes a small number of rare samizdat from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s; informal and alternative press of the period of perestroika; and an extensive collection of materials from the years 1989 onwards.
        The collection includes programs of political parties, documents of social and religious movements, handbills, election materials, and posters.
        The collected posters and leaflets are still being processed (ca. 30,000 documents, 2nd half 20th c.–to present). There is an especially large collection of materials of elections from 1989 to present. The collection includes materials of presidential elections, elections of State Duma and of People’s Deputies of the USSR (1989), and regional elections.
        In the summer of 1997, the sector acquired the rich samizdat collection of the former Library of Unpublished Manuscripts (Biblioteka neizdannykh rukopisei—BNR), which had earlier been under the Pushkin Humanitarian Fond), consisting of an additional 70 books and 210 journal issues from the period prior to 1993, including many extremely rare, or even unique materials. In the mid-1990s the sector receipted also the library of samizdat of Viacheslav Igrunov and Petr Butov from Odessa.


Reference facilities:
A special database covers the nontraditional press collection, with annotated entries for articles from periodical publications (i.e. those not recorded in Letopis' periodicheskoi pechati), for which a system of thematic search has been developed.


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