Russian National Congress
| Русский народный Съезд | |
 The national cockade of the Russian National Republic. | |
| Advisory body overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 14 February 1926 (as political party) 4 December 1931 (as advisory body) |
| Jurisdiction | Russia |
| Headquarters | 37 Wolfgang Street, Moscow, Russia |
| Parent department | Committee of National Affairs |
The Russian National Congress (RNR; Russian: Русский народный Съезд), also known as the Vosstanist National Congress, is an advisory organization and former political party that was established in 1926. Since 1931, the Congress has been composed of 105 selectively chosen representatives from the country's provinces and autonomous national republics who provide deliberative insight to the the main organ of the Russian state, the Committee of National Affairs.
Structure
Revolutionary history: 1926–1931
A few weeks after the establishment of the Russian National Republic, the Liberal and Nationalist factions of Russia's anti-imperial movement came to a head. On 14 February 1926, the Russian National Congress was founded as a political organization for national republicans across the country. Five days later, the Congress elected Ozero Murmsky as its Chairman, a title he would retain for the remainder of his life.
The Congress would engage in a civil war with the Liberals—formally the Parliament of the Republic—until the spring of 1928, when the former would achieve victory and stabilize Russia under its rule. The Chairman of the Russian National Congress, Murmsky, would therefore become the head of state of the new administration. Several revolutionaries, including A. W. Shubin, publicly advocated for the reconfiguration of the Congress into the new national legislature of the country. Chairman Murmsky, in coordination with his Committee of National Affairs and Supreme Commander Mikhail Orlov, proceeded to crush the so-called 'parliamentary movement' in August 1928 through the arrest of Shubin, his affiliates, and demonstrators within the Moscow region. This act and subsequent confirmations of this decision would make Russia the largest state in the world without a formal and regular legislature.
Upon the recommendation of member Abraham Petroff, the Congress, which had been a redundant and mostly inactive shell organization for over two years, was considered as a potential host body of a new advisory committee in early 1931. After several weeks of deliberation, Chairman Murmsky approved Petroff's proposal in an effort to subdue the intensity of ethnonationalist, regionalist, and religious revolts across the new Russian state. Over the next following months, an initial eighty representatives from various Russian provinces and autonomous national republics would be amassed by a task force headed by Petroff and his wife, Tatiana Oestinova.
