Russian Right-Wing Extremist Press, 1990-1999

Project Description:

SEEMP has filmed over 235 newspaper titles that represent right-wing extremist views in Russian politics and society. The papers, covering roughly the years 1990-1999, have been collected by the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These institutions donated newsprint issues to the Center for Research Libraries, who collated and filmed the titles from the two collections.

The papers represent a variety of views from the well-known LDPR of Vladimir Zhirinovskii to lesser known groups, all of whom present views out of the mainstream of Russian politics. Russian nationalist organs in the Baltic countries, Belarus, and Ukraine are included along with newspapers from many regions in the Russian Federation. The newspapers represent monarchist, nationalist, fascist, and conservative Orthodox sentiments. Many also represent a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent in Russian politics and society. The attached list of proposed titles, in many instances, gives the name of the sponsoring organizations.

Reasons for Consideration:

While the mainstream press has been collected and preserved in libraries and through commercial contracts with the publications, none of the titles proposed in this project, to the best of our knowledge, have been filmed to date. Many of the titles are represented by significant holdings; others by only a few issues. It is difficult to determine the actual print history of many of these publications because there is no bibliographic control for them. It is likely, for some of the titles, that the few representatives in this proposal are the only issues ever published or form a significant portion of the publication's history.

Reel index to Part I (140 titles)
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Reel index to Part II (96 titles)
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Submitted by: UC Berkeley and U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Approved:  April 1999 (Part I), April 2000 (Part II)

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