Fashist

{{Infobox newspaper

| name = Fashist

| logo =

| image = Fashist cover 1939.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption = Cover of Fashist, 1939

| type = Monthly

| format = Broadsheet

| owners =

| founder =

| publisher = Anastasy Vonsyatsky

| editor = Donat Yosifovich Kunle

| foundation = August 1933

| political = Fascist

| language = Russian language

| ceased publication = July 1941

| headquarters = Putnam, Connecticut, United States

| circulation = ~10,000

}}

Fashist ({{langx|ru|link=no|Фашистъ}}, 'Fascist') was a Russian fascist publication that ran from 1933 to 1941, issued from Putnam, Connecticut, United States.{{Citation | publisher = Library of Congress | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JmEqAAAAMAAJ | title = Russian Periodicals in the Helsinki University Library, A Checklist | year = 1959 | page = 16 | access-date = 14 August 2015 | archive-date = 13 May 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160513071036/https://books.google.com/books?id=JmEqAAAAMAAJ | url-status = live }}. It was published by Anastasy Vonsyatsky. Fashist was distributed among Russian exiles around the world.

Launching

The first issue of Fashist was published in August 1933.Laqueur, Walter, George L. Mosse, and Gilbert Allardyce. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4vFBAAAAIAAJ International Fascism, 1920–1945] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520011423/https://books.google.com/books?id=4vFBAAAAIAAJ |date=20 May 2016 }}. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. p. 163. The first issue was printed in 2,000 copies. Donat Yosifovich Kunle was the editor of Fashist.Stephan, John J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ftRoAAAAMAAJ The Russian Fascists: Tragedy and Farce in Exile, 1925–1945] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513090654/https://books.google.com/books?id=ftRoAAAAMAAJ |date=13 May 2016 }}. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. p. 212 The publication functioned as an organ of the All-Russian Fascist Organization.Winter, Barbara. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MCnvG1-Tz2YC&pg=PA131 The Most Dangerous Man in Australia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425161450/https://books.google.com/books?id=MCnvG1-Tz2YC&pg=PA131 |date=25 April 2016 }}. Carindale, Qld: IP (Interactive Publications), 2010. p. 131

Profile

Fashist was published more or less on a monthly basis. Each issue was printed in roughly 10,000 copies. The publication had a newspaper format, but was printed on costly glossy paper. The material of the publication consisted of reports on party activities as well as historical narratives. Fashist dedicated a lot of attention to Civil War nostalgia, praising the role of the White Army and its leaders.Stephan, John J. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ftRoAAAAMAAJ The Russian Fascists: Tragedy and Farce in Exile, 1925–1945] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513090654/https://books.google.com/books?id=ftRoAAAAMAAJ |date=13 May 2016 }}. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. pp. 124–25

Fashkors

Many authors of articles in Fashist were kept anonymous, to avoid reprisals from Soviet agents. Instead, they signed the articles as fashkor (фашкор, short for 'Fascist Correspondent', compare with rabkor) followed by their party membership number and geographic location. By using the pseudonyms of many different fashkors, Fashist created the impression of being in the epicentre of a vast global network of émigré Russian fascist agents as well as a network of saboteurs with the Soviet Union.{{Cite conference | mode = cs2 | publisher = American Philosophical Society | last = Hassel | first = James E | book-title = Transactions of the American Philosophical Society: Russian refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars | title = Exile Community Organisation & Services | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uUsLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA64 | place = Philadelphia | year = 1991 | pages = 64–65 | isbn = 9780871698179 | conference = | access-date = 14 August 2015 | archive-date = 3 June 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160603024423/https://books.google.com/books?id=uUsLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA64 | url-status = live }}. In reality, Vonsyatsky could count on only a handful of Russian exiles as correspondents.

Later period

As of 1938–39, it served as the organ of the All-Russian National Revolutionary Workers-Peasants Party of Fascists. Donat Kunle, a pilot, was killed in a plane crash in California on June 21, 1941.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eW_VAAAAMAAJ |title=Civil Aeronautics Journal |date=1941 |publisher=Office of Aviation Administration |pages=50 |language=en}} Fashist ceased publication the following month.{{Citation | publisher = Emigrantica | url = http://www.emigrantica.ru/j/item/fashist-putnam-sonnecticut-usa-1933-1941 | title = Фашист (Putnam, Connecticut, USA, 1933–1941) | place = RU | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130416173410/http://www.emigrantica.ru/j/item/fashist-putnam-sonnecticut-usa-1933-1941 | archive-date = 16 April 2013 | df = dmy-all }}.