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Manuscript: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1966.
Viktor Mikhailovich Baidalakov (1900-1967) - Russian political and military leader, an active member and a chairman of the Narodno-Trudovoi Soiuz (NTS, People's Labor Union).
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Viktor Mikhailovich Baidalakov Manuscript and Printed Materials; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
Manuscript Accessioned 1966.
Manuscript Processed 12/--/78.
Manuscript Revised 04/--/80.
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Viktor Baidalakov was born into the family of a Don Cossack. After graduation from the Elisavetgrad cavalry school, he was released as a cornet into the Izyum 11-th Hussar Regiment. Baidalakov actively participated in the Civil War and in November 1920 he was evacuated to Gallipoli (Turkey) with the Don Russian army.
Soon after Baidalakov moved to Yugoslavia, where he first worked as a laborer but then graduated from the Chemistry Department of the Belgrade University. In 1928, he was elected chairman of the board of the Union of Russian National Youth (SRNM), which later became a part of the Narodno-Trudovoi Soiuz of Russian Solidarists.
From 1934 to 1955 Viktor Baidalakov was Chairman of the Council of the New Generation National Labor Union. Since the beginning of World War II, he put forward the slogan: "Neither with Stalin, nor with foreign conquerors, but with the entire Russian people." In the fall of 1941, together with other representatives of the leadership of the NTS, he moved from Belgrade to Berlin, where he continued to lead the work of the NTS in exile and in the occupied territories. In 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and was imprisoned in Berlin prisons and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was released at the request of Andrei Vlasov in April of 1945.
After the war he lived in Germany, then immigrated to the U.S. In January 1952, at a regular congress of the Council of the NTS, he was stripped of the title of Chairman of the Executive Bureau, and in 1955 he was expelled from the NTS for "a serious violation of the spirit and letter of the union constitution" - the Charter of the NTS.
In January 1956, he founded the Russian National Labor Union, which existed until April 1966. His last years of life he taught Russian language at Georgetown University. He died in 1967 in Washington D.C.
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