Front of National Revolutionary Action

The Union of Russian Youth (SRM) was founded on 11 November 1991, two days after the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch in Germany and on the birthday of the writer Dostoevsky. The SRV declared itself the legal successor to the All-Russian Fascist Party and the All-Russian Fascist Organization, which had existed in exile in the 1930s and 1940s. For a time, the Union of Russian Youth was considered the youth branch of the Christian Revival Union organization.

In 1992, the organization began publishing the newspaper "Our March," later renamed "People's System."

On 17 January 1993, SRM renamed itself to the Front of National Revolutionary Action (FNRD). In 1993, the FNRD participated in the creation of the National Bolshevik Front, but its integration into the National Bolshevik Party did not go beyond participation in a single rally on 9 May 1993.

Following the October 1993 White House shooting and the defeat of the opposition, sanctions against the FNRD were imposed by the executive branch: by order of the Minister of Press and Information of Russia, dated 14 October 1993, the newspaper "Our March" was banned.

However, taking advantage of the amnesty declared by the State Duma on 23 February 1994, the FNRD continued publishing the newspaper, but under the name "Narodny Stroy." This newspaper was subsequently closed, and its editor, Ilya Lazarenko, was charged with "inciting interethnic hatred." In connection with the amnesty announced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Lazarenko was pardoned.

One of the FNRD's most high-profile actions was the rally on 22 March 1994, outside the South African embassy in defense of the white population of that country and against the dismantling of the apartheid system. Members of the Right Radical Party also participated in this action.

In 1994-1995, Lazarenko suddenly and radically shifted his Orthodox Christian orientation to a pagan one (a combined Germanic-Celtic-Slavic one), shocking most of his colleagues. He then disbanded the FNRD and formed, first, the National Front Party (PNF), and then a religious organization, the Society of Nav' ("Holy Church of the White Race"), using the Ku Klux Klan as its garb.

Some of his former comrades (Orthodox Christians) continued to call themselves the FNRD, while maintaining good relations with their former leader. This group published the magazines "Mrakobes," "Pod Nol," and "Runa," and the newspapers "Dver" and "Khuliganist"; there is evidence that they also became the first editorial board of the newspaper "Limonka." In 1998, on the eve of the National Front Party congress, Ilya Lazarenko officially transferred the right to use the FPRD name and symbols to Mikhail Moiseyev. The thus-revived FNRD participated in the congress as a collective member, representing the movement's Orthodox wing. The last known event organized by the FNRD (jointly with the PNF) was an evening in memory of Baron von Ungern-Sternberg at the Mayakovsky Museum on 18 September 1999.

Initially, the SRM's ideological platform represented the full national-patriotic ethos of the time: Orthodox fundamentalism, monarchism, and anti-Semitism. Pre-revolutionary Russia was seen as the ideal. A distinctive feature was the attempt to infuse this complex with Nazi ideas, leading the organization's members to call themselves "monarcho-fascists."

However, in 1992, a rapid and sharp shift to the right led to a break with traditional Orthodox-monarchist organizations. In the programmatic articles "Third Rus'" by Ilya Lazarenko and "National Revolution" by Alexei Shiropaev, the authors disassociated themselves from traditional Russian nationalists (the NPF "Pamyat" and similar organizations) and proclaimed themselves "new rightists."

The leaders of the FNRD formulated and published the so-called "20 Points", a synopsis of contemporary Russian fascism. The declared goal of the FNRD was to establish a "Great National Socialist Russian Empire" through Russian national revolution. They recognize "total radicalism" and "national socialism of the Stalin-Strasser type" as their ideological basis.

From its inception, the FNRD proclaimed itself a right-wing radical organization, envisioning cooperation with similar organizations abroad. The first such organization was the NSDAP/AO ("Foreign Organization of the NSDAP").

Leader: Ilya Lazarenko (until 1998), Mikhail Moiseyev (since 1998)