ЧАСТНОЕ СОБИРАТЕЛЬСТВО И БИБЛИОФИЛЬСТВО В РЕСПУБЛИКАХ СОВЕТСКОГО СОЮЗА ПО МАТЕРИАЛАМ СЕТЕВОЙ МЕМУАРИСТИКИ ПОСТСОВЕТСКИХ ГОСУДАРСТВ

Abstract

The paper is about the development of private collecting in republics of the Soviet Union in the 1960s – 1980s. The memoirs of philatelists, bibliophiles, art collectors, posted in online local history magazines, on the websites of collecting clubs, in thematic blogs of the post-Soviet states, as well as comments on them form the narrative basis of the study. The author notes that the scientific literature published to date on the history of Soviet private collecting does not fully reflect the presence of that socio-cultural phenomenon in the public and private life of the national regions of the USSR, focusing mainly on the personalities and organizations of collectors and bibliophiles in Moscow and Leningrad. Based on memoir sources identified on the Internet, the author argues that in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), Vilnius (Lithuania), Baku (Azerbaijan), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and in other capitals and large cities of the Union republics during the period under review communities of the art and book lovers were formed. Their collecting and educational activities played an important role in preserving the historical and cultural heritage of the post-Soviet states. Network communications on the topic of private collecting and bibliophilia in the USSR, including the exchange of memories by members of collecting communities, are an element of the common information and cultural space for the intelligentsia of the CIS and Baltic countries.