Metadata : Secretariat of the Latvian Section of the Communist International
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 27 008 741
- Web address:
- http://www.lvarhivs.gov.lv/index3.php?id=11
- Email:
- lva@arhivi.gov.lv
- 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 27 008 741
- Web address:
- http://www.lvarhivs.gov.lv/index3.php?id=11
- Email:
- lva@arhivi.gov.lv
- Reference number:
- PA-240
- Title:
- Secretariat of the Latvian Section of the Communist International
- Title (official language):
- Komunistiskās Internacionāles Latvijas sekcijas Sekretariāts
- Creator/accumulator:
- Secretariat of the Latvian Section of the Communist International
- Date(s):
- 1918/1940
- Language:
- Russian
- Latvian
- German
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 2,833 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes the records of the Secretariat of the Latvian Section of the Communist International. They include minutes of Secretariat meetings and of party conferences, papers on consultations held by the Secretariat, reports on the activities of the Latvian Communist Party (LCP) and materials of the local party organisations in Latvia and abroad, correspondence of the Secretariat and the party’s Central Committee on various issues including organisational and ideological matters, lists of Latvian communist activists, manuscripts of the party’s activists and financial documents.
A few files in the collection include Jewish-related material. The file of incoming correspondence from 1920 contains a report of the Jewish Section of the Latvian Communist Party (inventory 1, file 445). The report highlights the process of merging the United Combund with the LCP thus creating the LCP Jewish Section (Comfarband). The report includes the main reasons for the merging of the parties, and general data on the Comfarband. The collection contains letters of the Comfarband secretary to the Latvian Section of the Youth Comintern regarding the political functioning, organisational matters and the general state of affairs in the Jewish Section in Riga in 1922-1923 (inventory 1, file 468). The collection includes manuscripts from1935 regarding the negotiations and agreement between the Bund and the Latvian Communist Party (inventory 1, file 398). The collection also includes the appeal from 1922 of Jewish public organisations in Soviet Russia to Jewish workers in other countries to pressurise their governments to provide financial compensation for the damage caused to Jews by the pogroms during the Russian Civil War (inventory 2, file 67). The collection also contains various judicial materials on the charges of Latvian Jewish communists such as the conviction and judgement in1924 in the case of the Latgalian communists Tsal, Kisin and others (inventory 1, file 697); and the verdict from 1929 in the case of U V Rapoport and G L Ioselson (inventory 1, file 788).
- 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 Communist International (Comintern) was an international organisation that united the communist parties of various countries in 1919-1943. After Latvia gained independence in 1920, the Latvian Communist Party became illegal and operated underground. In January 1920 the party decided to withdraw from the Communist Party of the Soviet Russia and join the Third World Congress of the Comintern as an independent section. The section was headed by the secretariat. After the Soviet occupation of Latvia in June 1940, the party merged into the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) and ceased to exist as a separate section of the Comintern.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of five inventories which are arranged in thematic-chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- The detailed inventories are open for a free online access at the website of the Latvian State Archives.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www.archiv.org.lv/index3.php?id=90091&kods=600090616&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
- Reference number:
- PA-240
- Title:
- Secretariat of the Latvian Section of the Communist International
- Title (official language):
- Komunistiskās Internacionāles Latvijas sekcijas Sekretariāts
- Creator/accumulator:
- Secretariat of the Latvian Section of the Communist International
- Date(s):
- 1918/1940
- Language:
- Russian
- Latvian
- German
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 2,833 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes the records of the Secretariat of the Latvian Section of the Communist International. They include minutes of Secretariat meetings and of party conferences, papers on consultations held by the Secretariat, reports on the activities of the Latvian Communist Party (LCP) and materials of the local party organisations in Latvia and abroad, correspondence of the Secretariat and the party’s Central Committee on various issues including organisational and ideological matters, lists of Latvian communist activists, manuscripts of the party’s activists and financial documents.
A few files in the collection include Jewish-related material. The file of incoming correspondence from 1920 contains a report of the Jewish Section of the Latvian Communist Party (inventory 1, file 445). The report highlights the process of merging the United Combund with the LCP thus creating the LCP Jewish Section (Comfarband). The report includes the main reasons for the merging of the parties, and general data on the Comfarband. The collection contains letters of the Comfarband secretary to the Latvian Section of the Youth Comintern regarding the political functioning, organisational matters and the general state of affairs in the Jewish Section in Riga in 1922-1923 (inventory 1, file 468). The collection includes manuscripts from1935 regarding the negotiations and agreement between the Bund and the Latvian Communist Party (inventory 1, file 398). The collection also includes the appeal from 1922 of Jewish public organisations in Soviet Russia to Jewish workers in other countries to pressurise their governments to provide financial compensation for the damage caused to Jews by the pogroms during the Russian Civil War (inventory 2, file 67). The collection also contains various judicial materials on the charges of Latvian Jewish communists such as the conviction and judgement in1924 in the case of the Latgalian communists Tsal, Kisin and others (inventory 1, file 697); and the verdict from 1929 in the case of U V Rapoport and G L Ioselson (inventory 1, file 788).
- 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 Communist International (Comintern) was an international organisation that united the communist parties of various countries in 1919-1943. After Latvia gained independence in 1920, the Latvian Communist Party became illegal and operated underground. In January 1920 the party decided to withdraw from the Communist Party of the Soviet Russia and join the Third World Congress of the Comintern as an independent section. The section was headed by the secretariat. After the Soviet occupation of Latvia in June 1940, the party merged into the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) and ceased to exist as a separate section of the Comintern.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of five inventories which are arranged in thematic-chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- The detailed inventories are open for a free online access at the website of the Latvian State Archives.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www.archiv.org.lv/index3.php?id=90091&kods=600090616&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
