Albert Baiburin - The Soviet Passport

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2 Series Page New Russian Thought The publication of this series was made possible with the support of the Zimin Foundation Albert Baiburin, The Soviet Passport Vladimir Bibikhin, The Woods Alexander Etkind, Nature’s Evil Boris Kolonitskii, Comrade Kerensky Sergei Medvedev, The Return of the Russian Leviathan Maxim Trudolyubov, The Tragedy of Property

3 Title Page The Soviet Passport The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR Albert Baiburin Translated by Stephen Dalziel polity

4 Copyright

5 Abbreviations

6 Foreword‘Remove the document – and you remove the man’ Notes

7 Preface

8 Introduction 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Notes

9 Part I The History of the Soviet Passport System 1 The Formation of ‘the Passport Portrait’ in Russia Notes 2 Fifteen Passport-less Years Notes 3 The Introduction of the Passport System in the USSR (1932–1936)General Situation The Official Version of the Introduction of Passports Organizational Work Issuing Passports ‘Legal Excesses’ The Second Phase of the Introduction of Passports The Consequences of the Introduction of Passports Notes 4 Passport Regimes and Passport ReformsPassport Regimes The Hundred-and-First Kilometre The Propiska Registering ‘Natural Population Changes’ Maintaining the Passport Regime 1940 and 1953 Statutes on Passports and Instructions for Passport Work in Reform Projects of the 1960s The 1974 Statute From the Soviet to the Russian Passport System Notes

10 Part II The Passport as a Bureaucratic Device 5 The Passport Template and the Individual’s Basic Information The Passport Template ‘Surname, Name, Patronymic’ ‘Place and Date of Birth’ ‘Ethnic Origin’ ‘The Personal Signature’ ‘Social Status’ ‘Liability for Military Service’ Notes 6 The Observations and Properties of the Passport‘Who Issued the Passport’ ‘On the Basis of Which Documents is the Passport Issued’ ‘People Listed in the Holder’s Passport’ The Photograph Special Observations Observations about the Propiska Notes

11 Part III What the Passport was in Practice: The Evidence in Documents and Memoirs 7 Receiving a PassportThe Right to a Passport Defining Ethnicity Taking the Passport Photograph How Do I Sign? The Passport Desk and the Pasportistka Receiving the Passport Notes 8 Life With – and Without – the PassportLook After It; Should You Carry It With You? The Document Check Changing One’s Name A ‘Clean’ Passport Marriages of Convenience Lost! What it Meant to be Without Your Passport Refusing to Have a Passport ‘The Most Important Document’ and Why it was Needed Notes

12 Conclusion

13 Notes

14 Appendix: Interview DetailsInterview Details The Type of Questions Asked in the Interviews

15 Glossary

16 Bibliography

17 Index

18 End User License Agreement

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2 Table of Contents

3 Series Page New Russian Thought The publication of this series was made possible with the support of the Zimin Foundation Albert Baiburin, The Soviet Passport Vladimir Bibikhin, The Woods Alexander Etkind, Nature’s Evil Boris Kolonitskii, Comrade Kerensky Sergei Medvedev, The Return of the Russian Leviathan Maxim Trudolyubov, The Tragedy of Property

4 Title Page The Soviet Passport The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR Albert Baiburin Translated by Stephen Dalziel polity

5 Copyright

6 Abbreviations

7 Foreword

8 Preface

9 Introduction

10 Begin Reading

11 Conclusion

12 Appendix: Interview Details

13 Glossary

14 Bibliography

15 Index

16 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 1 Figure 1.Passport booklet issued in 1906 to Ivan Ivanovich Kostyrko

2 Chapter 2 Figure 2.Warrant for Stepan Arkhipovich Bolotov to inspect the activity of the Special De… Figure 3.Employment List, issued to Dina Isayevna Zakharina Figure 4.Student’s Certificate from 1918, issued to Ivan Ivanovich Yankovsky by Petrograd… Figure 5.Identity document with no end date, issued to Antonina Ivanovna Savelyeva

3 Chapter 3 Figure 6.‘A commission under the chairmanship of member of the Smolny Soviet, Comrade Dar… Figure 7.Certificate issued in order to allow the processing of a passport

4 Chapter 4 Figure 8.A list issued by the Russian Post Office in November 2012 of all documents that …

5 Chapter 5 Figure 9.Temporary passport from 1933 Figure 10.Official Form No. 1, the form that each citizen had to complete when applying fo…

6 Chapter 7 Figure 11.Soviet poster from 1956, showing a young man receiving his first passport. Figure 12.Invitation to the solemn presentation of passports, to be held on 27 March 1967 … Figure 13.1973 poster showing a young man holding his first passport, and quoting the word… Figure 14.Poster from 1967, celebrating the passport and the 50th Anniversary of the Revol…

7 Chapter 8 Figure 15.Outside and inside of a protective cover for a passport Figure 16.Made-up ‘children’s passports’ from 1962, for the Fomenko children

1 Plate 1:1933 passports.

2 Plate 2:1935 passports.

3 Plate 3:1938 passports.

4 Plate 4:1951 passports.

5 Plate 5:1974 passports.

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