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22: 222:(with shortened versions of this name in common use - «Помполит», «Политпомощь»: "Pompolit", "Politpomosch"). This organization aided relatives of those arrested by making inquiries about where the prisoners were held, providing them with material assistance, and petitioning the authorities for their release. The organization was located on 177:, assistance to prisoners was offered through a political prisoner's bureau of the St. Petersburg organization of the Political Red Cross, chaired by T. A. Bogdanovich with E. Benoit as treasurer. The Prisoner's Commission was manned by prisoners, deportees, and their families, who also organized escapes. 170:
was active in St. Petersburg. The society received funding for its activities from charity concerts, literary readings, fundraising events, and voluntary donations from the intelligentsia.
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The Leningrad section of the Political Red Cross existed until 1937, when V. P. Gartman was arrested and shot and the section ceased to exist.
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One of the most active organization in the 1910s was a group assisting political prisoners held in the
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was the name borne by several organizations that provided aid to political prisoners in the
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The Political Red Cross and emigration from Russia in the 1920s and 1930s
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Formally the Political Red Cross continued to exist until 15 July 1938.
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in 1870 by L. I. Kornilova, Serdyukov, L. V. Sinegubov, and
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The first organization using this name was founded in
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