CHARTERS AND REPORTS OF CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2018-3-198-205
The history of volunteer practices in prerevolutionary Russia is among the major problems that attract increasing attention of researchers. The need to study them is caused not only by scientific, but also by the practical need for a deeper consideration of volunteer activity in the system of charitable institutions and public organizations. The statutes and reports of these organizations are valuable sources, significantly broadening and refining our understanding of the history of volunteerism in Russia in the second half of the 19th century. Reflecting the nature of society itself, they contain information about their composition (quantitative and personal), organizational structure, subordinate organizations and activities, as well as practices of public volunteers. Thanks to the availability of such a document as the charter, members of the society first got an idea of the procedure for using the rights granted to them and the sphere of application of volunteer efforts and free labor. The article analyzes statutes and reports of the Tver Charitable Society for the Promotion of Women’s Labor, the Orenburg Slavic Charitable Society, the Arkhangelsk Sobriety Society, the Odessa Society for Combating Drunkenness, the Charitable Society for the Publication of Useful and Cheap Books, the Society for the Improvement of National Labor in Memory of the Tsar Liberator Alexander II, the Charitable Society for the Protection of Animals, the St. Petersburg Slavic Charitable Society, and others.
Keywords: charitable institutions, volunteers, volunteer activity, report, public organizations, charter, membercompetitors
References:
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Issue: 3, 2018
Series of issue: Issue 3
Rubric: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND SOURCE STUDY
Pages: 198 — 205
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