Soviet Soviet Items I Brought Back From Moscow

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Inside 2

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Inside 3

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And Finaly my favorite item, a copy of Soviet Constitution

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[Paul R]

Wow!! You hit a real nice flea market. Is the Soviet Constitution printed in English anywhere?

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Wow!! You hit a real nice flea market. Is the Soviet Constitution printed in English anywhere?

Thanks Paul , glad you like them

I have not seen it printed in English before, having said that I had never seen the Soviet Constiution in Hardback book form before I bought mine

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[Guest Rick Research]

Epson scanner, Epson scanner....

can you zoom in on the officer's photo in his Party ID? Looks like TANK badges on his collar yet that can't be: he was an airforce radio technical officer.

[Paul R]

I would also be very interested in knowing what the medal in blocks 23 and 24 are!

[fjcp]

I would also be very interested in knowing what the medal in blocks 23 and 24 are!

I just asked my Russian Fiancee what the medal was for and it's a medal of thanks/ appreciation for the recipients part in the laying of a gas line across the USSR!

JC

Edited July 12, 2007 by fjcp

[Paul R]

I just asked my Russian Fiancee what the medal was for and it's a medal of thanks/ appreciation for the recipients part in the laying of a gas line across the USSR!

Wow!! A very significant medal. I suppose that there are no dates on it? Very strange ribbon pattern! I bet that these are rare!

[Christian Zulus]

Is the Soviet Constitution printed in English anywhere?

Dear Paul,

have nice booklets with the the constitutions - Stalin & Brezhnev - in German language, but not hardbound.

There have to be thousends of copies of the English version issued by APN-Novosti in the 1970s of the Brezhnev-constitution.

Best regards

Christian

[Ed_Haynes]

1936:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Soviet_Constitution

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russia...st/1936toc.html

1977:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Soviet_Constitution

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russia...st/1977toc.html

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Wow!! A very significant medal. I suppose that there are no dates on it? Very strange ribbon pattern! I bet that these are rare!

Thanks guys for the info on the medal the doc is dated 1978/79

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Epson scanner, Epson scanner....

can you zoom in on the officer's photo in his Party ID? Looks like TANK badges on his collar yet that can't be: he was an airforce radio technical officer.

Well my Cannon scanner has had it never dropp a box full of DDR orders on the Glass of the scanner

I will try but my cameras not playing tonight so will again tomorrow

I would say Rick its more of a millitary service record book rather than Party ID

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[Guest Rick Research]

No, it's the Communist Party of the Soviet Union record for a serving officer: "Registration Booklet for Member of the CPSU."

I've never seen one before, but this is later than the period I usually have collected. It is, in its way, a thorough personnel file indeed supplying extremely detailed military records, but it was issued by the CPSU, not the MoD. This is NOT the usually seen CPSU members' DUES booklet.

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No, it's the Communist Party of the Soviet Union record for a serving officer: "Registration Booklet for Member of the CPSU."

I've never seen one before, but this is later than the period I usually have collected. It is, in its way, a thorough personnel file indeed supplying extremely detailed military records, but it was issued by the CPSU, not the MoD. This is NOT the usually seen CPSU members' DUES booklet.

Ah, now i understand I had never seen one before either thats why I bought it

Yeah I thought you meant it was dues book

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[Guest Rick Research]

I thought we'd posted examples of the dues books before, but I couldn't find any on search, so I've been off scanning mine and will put it down in the Soviet Militaria section:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=20033&hl=

Meanwhile, the whirlwind tour through your Party Registration Book is

Ivan Il'ich Dem'yanov, born in Alekseevka in Belgorodsky Oblast 1945. Russian, Russian speaker. Komsomol 1961-69/Candidate Member CPSU September 1968 and full member October 1969-- both from Military Unit 55649.

There is some notation about 1954 number 16,123,407 being exchanged (?) which I don't understand. His Party Number on the book cover was 4,643,070.

Book filled out in 1973.

His father was a guard (as in prison/gulag), currently fire department unit commander, while mother was a housewife.

Higher education, graduated from Zhambovsky Military Aviation Technical School in 1967 with specialty as military radio technician.

Received 1978 and 1988 jubilees. (He should also have had the 1968, and 10, 15, and 20 years service medals which are not mentioned)

No foreign languages, last rank noted MAJOR.

His military units show radio navigation and light technical positions. All the units are just numbers:

worked as a lathe operator at the bed factory in Alekseevka 1963-64

at military school mentioned above 1964-67

Lt/platoon commander for radio navigation in Unit 11043 in the Siberian Military District 1967-71

Sr Lt for radio navigation an light tech Unit 65267 in Leningrad Military District 1973-76

Captain and commander of staff for Unit 62221 which is described oddly as "Soviet Army & Navy" 1976-78

Staff commander for technical services in Unit 10236 described as "Soviet Army" 1978-1984

Deputy Commander of something I can't read in Moscow Military District, 1984- (no end date)

Looks to me like he was in radar antiaircraft, and may well have been on foreign advisor duty from the odd entries 1976+ to guess.

Senior Lt and company commander same, 1971-73

His date of rank as Captain was 21.12.73.

[matteti]

Thanks Ed for the links! I took your links and added the earlier constitutions.

So here is an updated full list of English translation of the Soviet Constitutions.

1918 Soviet Constitution (RSFSR)

http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/gover.../1918/index.htm

1924 Soviet Constitution

http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/ussr1924.html

1936 Soviet Constitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Soviet_Constitution

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russia...st/1936toc.html

1977 Soviet Constitution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Soviet_Constitution

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russia...st/1977toc.html

Interesting historical documents (and the 1918 constitution)

http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/index.htm

[Ed_Haynes]

Thanks. Maybe these links ought to be copied up into something pinned? Hint, hint to the Central Committee Comrades??

[Christian Zulus]

Thanks. Maybe these links ought to be copied up into something pinned? Hint, hint to the Central Committee Comrades??

Dear Chairman & Senior Moderators,

I strongly support Ed's suggestion, because the question of the different constitutions occoured frequently at the forum.

Best regards

Christian

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No, it's the Communist Party of the Soviet Union record for a serving officer: "Registration Booklet for Member of the CPSU."

I've never seen one before, but this is later than the period I usually have collected. It is, in its way, a thorough personnel file indeed supplying extremely detailed military records, but it was issued by the CPSU, not the MoD. This is NOT the usually seen CPSU members' DUES booklet.

Well just spotted my second record for a serving officer on Collect Russia as part of a Marshals group.

http://collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=13042

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