Description
USSR
Soviet Union.
Badge of the Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles.
20s
The Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles was a society organized by F. E. Dzerzhinskii, E. Rud-zutak and Em. Laroslavskii His first official meeting took place in the Chamber of Trade Unions in Moscow on March 21, 1921.
The Society of former political prisoners and exiles provided material assistance to former political prisoners and exiles; organized conferences and reports; and participated in the collection, preservation, study and publication of materials on the history of tsarist prisons, forced labor and exile. In 1921 the society had 200 members; in 1931, 2,759. Among these were prominent participants in the revolutionary movement, including V. N. Figner, L. G. Deich, F. Ia. Kon, M. F. Frolenko, A. V. Lakimova-Dikovskaia, A. V. Pribylev, F. N. Petrov, V. A. Bystrianskii, N. A. Skrypnik and I. A. Teodorovich. Together with the Society of Former Bolsheviks, he helped found the International Organization of Assistance to Revolutionaries in 1922. It ceased to exist in 1935.
