Union of the Russian People

Union of the Russian People
Союз русского народа
AbbreviationURP (English)
СРН/SRN (Russian)
ChairmanAlexander Dubrovin[1]
Deputy ChairmanVladimir Purishkevich
Alexander Trishatny
Founded8 November 1905[2] (118 Years Ago)
BannedMarch 1917 (107 Years ago)
Succeeded byUnion of the Russian People[3]
HeadquartersBasque Lane, Дом № 3,
St. Petersburg, Russia
NewspaperRusskoye Znamya[4]
Membership (1907)334,000 claimed adherents[2]
IdeologyMonarchism (Tsarism)
Russia for Russians[5][6]
Triune Russian nation[7]
Great Russian nationalism[8]
Conservatism (Russian)
Orthodox fundamentalism
Right-wing populism[2][9]
Antisemitism
Anti-Ukrainian sentiment[10]
Pochvennichestvo[11][12]
Proto-fascism[2]
Political positionFar-right
ReligionRussian Orthodox Church
National affiliationBlack Hundreds[13]
Colours  Black,   white and   gold
(House of Romanov colours)
Slogan"For the Tsar, Faith and Fatherland"[14]
Anthem"God Save the Tsar!"
Party flag
Website
http://srn.rusidea.org/

The Union of the Russian People (URP) (Russian: Союз русского народа, romanizedSoyuz russkogo naroda; СРН/SRN) was a loyalist far-right nationalist political party, the most important among Black-Hundredist monarchist political organizations in the Russian Empire between 1905 and 1917.[13][15] Since 2005, organizational cells of the Union have been undergoing a revival in Russia and Ukraine.

Founded in October 1905, its aim was to rally the people behind 'Great Russian nationalism' and the Tsar, espousing anti-socialist, anti-liberal, and above all antisemitic views. By 1906 it had over 300,000 members. Its paramilitary armed bands, called the Black Hundreds, fought revolutionaries violently in the streets. Its leaders organised a series of political assassinations of deputies and other representatives of parties which supported the Russian Revolution of 1905.

The Union was dissolved in 1917 in the wake of the Revolution, and its leader, Alexander Dubrovin placed under arrest.

Some modern academic researchers view the Union of the Russian People as an early example of fascism.[2][9]

  1. ^ Rawson, p. 59
  2. ^ a b c d e Figes, p. 196
  3. ^ "Союз Русского Народа: Футболки с русской символикой" [Union of the Russian People: T-shirts with Russian symbols]. srn.rusidea.org. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  4. ^ Русское Знамя [Russkoye Znamya]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). — еженедельный орган союза русского народа (с января 1906 г. — ежедневный), выходит в СПб. с декабря 1905 г. Издатель А. И. Дубровин, редакторы И. С. Дурново и П. Ф. Булацель (последний с марта 1906 г.)
  5. ^ Ivanov, A. (September 2007). "«Россия для русских»: pro et contra". Tribuna rosskoi mysli № 7. Retrieved from rusk.ru (in Russian).
  6. ^ Rawson, Don C.; Richards, David (1995). Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905. p. 52. ISBN 0-521-48386-7..
  7. ^ Yas, O. "Small Ruthenia (МАЛА РУСЬ)". Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine – via resource.history.org.ua.
  8. ^ Figes, p. 246
  9. ^ a b Rogger[clarification needed]
  10. ^ ПАНИХИДЫ ПО Т. ШЕВЧЕНКЕ И ЧЕРНОСОТЕННОЕ ДУХОВЕСТВО. Украинская Жизнь. — М., 1912. — № 5 — С. 82.
  11. ^ "The Dostoevsky Encyclopaedia" – via books.google.com.
  12. ^ "Dostoevsky the Thinker" – via books.google.com.
  13. ^ a b John D. Klier (2005). "Black Hundreds". In Levy, Richard S. (ed.). Antisemitism: a historical encyclopedia of prejudice and persecution. ISBN 9781851094394. — p. 71–72.
  14. ^ Riasanovsky, p. 135
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference figes245 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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