Metadata: Zurich Unit of the Latvian Social-Democracy (Switzerland)
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Skandu iela 14, Rīga, LV-1067
- Phone number:
- +371 25 618 681
- Web address:
- http://www.lvarhivs.gov.lv/index3.php?id=11
- Email:
- lva@arhivi.gov.lv
- Reference number:
- PA-15
- Title:
- Zurich Unit of the Latvian Social-Democracy (Switzerland)
- Title (official language):
- Latvijas Sociāldemokrātijas Cīrihes sekcija (Šveicē)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zurich Unit of the Latvian Social-Democracy (Switzerland)
- Date(s):
- 1903/1917
- Language:
- Russian
- Latvian
- Extent:
- 36 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains records of the Zurich Unit of the Latvian Social-Democratic Labour Party. These materials include: the Unit’s statute, correspondence and leaflets, minutes of meetings of the unit’s members and its board, resolutions and appeals of various party organs, lists of party members for 1906-1914, reports of the party’s overseas committee and minutes of the Riga Committee for 1910, open letters and manuscripts of prominent Social-Democrats. One file in the collection contains papers of the Der Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln, un Rusland (The General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia) known as the Bund (inventory 2, file 13). The file consists of incoming letters and documents of different organisations. The Bund papers in the file include a printed notice of the party that the Bund member Isroel-Michel Kaplinsky (Langzam) is an agent of the Russian Secret Police (Okhrana). The notice contains brief information about the activities of Kaplinsky in the Bund and on the information that he transmitted to the secret police. The file also contains circulars of the Central Committee of the Bund from 1911, the appeal of the Lodz Committee of the Bund from 1909, which marked the forthcoming fifth anniversary of the beginning of the First Russian Revolution on 9 January 1905, a printed report of the Bunds’ 8th Conference in 1910. circular of the Bund Overseas Committee containing a list of secret police agents, printed newsletter of the Bund Overseas Organisation from August 1911.
- Archival history:
- In 1962 the Soviet materials were transferred to the newly organised Central State Archive of the October Revolution and Socialist Development of the Latvian SSR (CVORA), the predecessor of the current Latvian State Archives. Materials of the Latvian social democratic and communist organizations, starting from 1899, were also included in the CVORA.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Latvian Social Democratic Labour Party (LSDRP) was founded in Riga in 1904 and at the same time a local party unit was established in Zurich. As early as during the 1905 revolution the LSDRP became a mass party with thousands of members. In 1906 the Latvian Social Democrats decide to join the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party as an autonomous component. The party changed its name and became the Social Democracy of the Latvian Region (SDLK). In 1915 the Bolsheviks became the main force in the SDLK. In 1917, the SDLK was renamed Social Democracy in Latvia.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of two inventories.
- Finding aids:
- The detailed inventories are open for free online access on the website of the Latvian State Archives.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www.archiv.org.lv/index3.php?id=90091&kods=600158138&vien=1
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2018
