Philatelic International

{{Infobox organization | name = Philatelic International<br/>(Filintern) | image = Sovetskii Philatelist-Sovetskii Kollekcioner-Radio Filintern.jpg | image_size = 285px | image_alt = Emblem of the organisation on the cover of its organ, magazine Radio de Filintern (in the combined issue with Soviet Philatelist and Soviet Collector) | caption = {{small|Emblem of the organisation on the cover of its organ, magazine ''Radio de Filintern'' (in the combined issue with<br/>''Soviet Philatelist'' and ''Soviet Collector'')}} | abbreviation = Filintern | formation = {{start date and age|1924|6|22|df=y}} | founding_location = Moscow, USSR | dissolved = 1940s | type = NGO | status = international association | purpose = philately, scripophily{{efn|Collecting stock and bond certificates.}} | location = Moscow, USSR | coordinates = {{Coord|55|45||N|37|37||E|type:landmark:RU|display=inline}} | region_served = world | num_members = 102 members | num_members_year = 1924 | language = Esperanto, English, French, German | leader_title = Editor | leader_name = Leongard Eichfuss | publication = ''Radio de Filintern'' | remarks = private persons }} '''Philatelic International''' ('''Filintern'''){{efn|{{langx|ru|Филателистический интернационал (Filatelisticheskii international)}}, brief name being {{langx|ru|Филинтерн (Filintern)}}. This was similar to ''Comintern'' (Communist International) and ''Profintern'' (Red International of Labor Unions).}} was an international philatelic society of collector-workers. It was founded and based in the Soviet Union in the 1920s to 1940s.<ref name=Rossica>{{cite journal|author=Polchaninov, R.|author2=Translated by G. Shalimoff and D. Skipton|year=1986|title=From the history of philately in the USSR|journal=Rossica|volume=108–109|pages=46–52|issn=0035-8363|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00020235/00045/49j|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524080531/http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00020235/00045/49j|archivedate=2015-05-24|url-status=live|accessdate=2015-05-15|quote=Reprinted from 'Novoye Russkoye Slovo', New York, 27 July 1986, in the column 'Collector's Corner'.}}</ref><ref name=Klein>{{cite journal|author=Klein, J. J.|date=June 1997|title=A Filintern cover sent to Montreal|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00040/5j|format=PDF|journal=Ямщик [Yamshcik = Post-Rider]|location=Toronto, Canada|publisher=Canadian Society of Russian Philately|volume=40|pages=3–5|id=Bibliographic ID: UF00076781 (University of Florida)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304211123/http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076781/00040/5j|archivedate=2016-03-04|url-status=live|accessdate=2015-06-14}}</ref>

== History == The creation of the Filintern was set up at a conference in Moscow in 22 to 30 June 1924. Its formation was greeted by all branches of the All-Russian Society of Philatelists and at the same time by the Soviet Esperantists. At the conference opening, Feodor Chuchin, the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily, declared: {{cquote|Within the Filintern and through it we will not only adhere to all the rules of international philatelic ethics but also watch to make sure others uphold them.|4=from ''Sovetskii Filatelist'',{{efn|Central organ of the Organisation of the Commissioner for Philately and Scripophily and the All-Russian Society of Philatelists (''Soviet Philatelist'').}} June 1924|5=No. 7 (23).<ref name=Rossica/>}}

A program for the Filintern's central organ was developed that included: * "propaganda of the international union of philatelist-workers of all nations for the struggle against organised philatelist-dealers", * "wide popularisation of ideological philately", * "introducing Esperanto into philately and thus the establishment of lively communication between philatelists around the world."<ref name=Rossica/>

Filintern facilitates the goals of philatelists, scripophilists{{efn|Collectors of paper money, and stock and bond certificates.}} and Esperantists. Within Filintern, they could: * collect stamps and paper money, * publish philatelic bulletins, journals and catalogues, * most importantly, conduct foreign exchange.<ref name=Rossica/>

Using philately, scripophily and Esperanto, the Soviet authorities also hoped for promoting communist propaganda among the foreign proletariat.<ref name=Rossica/> Filintern received a further boost from the SAT (Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda) Congress of 1926.<ref name=Klein/>

[[File:USSR 1928-01-24 cover.jpg|thumb|1928 Esperanto cover sent from Filintern in Moscow to Mr. J. Bantle in Basel]] The Philatelic International's organ was the journal {{langx|eo|Radio de Filintern}}. It was an insert included in the monthly magazine ''Soviet Philatelist'' or ''Soviet Collector''.<ref name=Klein/> Its Editor was a prominent Russian philatelist L. K. Eichfuss. The first issue of the journal appeared in January 1925.<ref name=Rossica/>

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== Further reading == * {{cite journal|author=Grant, J.|date=July 1995|title=The socialist construction of philately in the early Soviet era|url=http://cabdirect.cab.semcs.net/abstracts/19961801522.html|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|volume=37|issue=3|pages=476–493|doi=10.1017/S0010417500019770|issn=0010-4175|jstor=179216|accessdate=2015-05-15|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150515113218/http://cabdirect.cab.semcs.net/abstracts/19961801522.html|archive-date=2015-05-15|url-status=dead|url-access=subscription}} Archived from [https://web.archive.org/web/20220607025510/http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/179216?uid=3739920&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21106833171513 the original] and [https://www.webcitation.org/6YXguzrX2?url=http://cabdirect.cab.semcs.net/abstracts/19961801522.html;jsessionid=D5AB89DF87BFD291068CC77278487A9B another source] on 2015-05-15.

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