Metadata: Vilniaus (Vilna) Provincial Military Revolutionary Committe
Collection
- Country:
- Lithuania
- Holding institution:
- Lithuanian Central State Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lietuvos centrinis valstybės archyvas
- Postal address:
- Milasiaus g. 21, 10102 Vilnius
- Phone number:
- +370 52477830
- Web address:
- http://www.archyvai.lt/lt/lcva.html
- Email:
- lcva@archyvai.lt
- Reference number:
- F. R-219
- Title:
- Vilniaus (Vilna) Provincial Military Revolutionary Committe
- Title (official language):
- Vilniaus gubernijos karinis revoliucinis komitetas (Виленский губернский военно-революционный комитет)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lithuanian Central State Archive
- Date(s):
- 1920
- Language:
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 26 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds contains the order of the Military Revolutionary Council of the Western Front, orders of the head of the Vilnius garrison, committees, minutes of meetings of the liquidation commission, report on the activities of the department of public education, employees of the correspondence committee, police officers, Vilnius District revolutionary committees and their employees, employees and pupils of orphanages, lists of institutions of Vilnius, questionnaires of schools, orphanages, registration cards of teachers, the charter of the Jewish Public Committee for Assistance to Victims of Pogroms, questionnaires of committee employees, mandates, certificates, protocols, reports, warrants, staffing tables, proto-permits, applications for employment and financial accounting. In addition, this collection includes many lists of employees of the structures of the Bolsheviks’ administration of Vilnius, Vilejka, Shchuchyn, and Svianciany (11, 13, 15, 25, 26), and employees of Vilnius high schools (10, 20).
File number 10 "'Register card of employees of elementary and secondary schools" from 1919 contains personal information of Vilnius teachers and musicians. The register card includes name and surname, age, place of work, functions, specialisation, length of service, reason for the break in work experience, membership in any organisation, party, and address. Similar information can be obtained from files number 16 "Certificates, warrants, testimonials" from 12 June to 22 September 1920 and number 12 "'Orders, protocols, estimate, personal cards and nominal roll of Shchuchyn county revolutionary committee" from 1920. File number 19 "Correspondence on registration of shelters, boarding schools, orphanages and playgrounds" from July-August 1920 provides information on the educational and charitable institutions belonging to the Jewish Committee for the Aid of War Victims "Ikopo".
File number 6 comprises "The chapter of the Jewish public society for Aid Victims of Pogroms". The chapter of this society provides valuable information on its structure and organisation: departments, societies and organisations involved by the committee in the work of organising aid, meetings of committee members, discussions in the Executive Bureau, functions of the Executive Bureau, functions of the Presidium, order of distribution of material aid, sources of aid, goals, and legal aspects of the work of institutions that are opened with the funds of the committee. In addition, this file contains documents such as certificates for the right to export food and clothing from Vilnius, intended by the local committee for the distribution of aid to affected Jews, and a note on the registration of property of all schools.
- Archival history:
- The documents came from the Central State Archives of the Soviet Army on 30 October 1967.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In February 1919, Vilnius was proclaimed the capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania and Belarus, known as "Lit-Bieła". The Polish army, under the personal command of Józef Piłsudski, recaptured the city on 19 April 1919. After the entry of Polish troops into the city, anti-Jewish pogroms took place. During the war of 1920, the city was captured twice by the Red Army. In July, the cooperating Bolshevik and Lithuanian armies attacked the Polish army, which led to the occupation of the city by the Bolsheviks. In accordance with the instructions of the Military Revolutionary Council of the Western Front, on 17 July 1920, the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Vilnius province began its work. The activities of the committee were controlled by the leadership of the Red Army. The Vilnius Military Revolutionary Committee was the highest organ of Soviet power in the territory of the region. The committee organised the supply of horses and carriages for the Red Army, food, security of communications and roads for the fight against banditry, counter-revolution, speculation, police activities, urban economy, medical, educational and cultural institutions, and social security, and led the district revolutionary committees. The Soviets handed over Vilnius to the Lithuanians on August 27. The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Vilnius province was evacuated to Minsk. In September, the committee was dissolved.
- Finding aids:
- There is an electronic archive catalogue.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Maryia Sawicka; 2020