Kanev County Voting Commission for Elections to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly

Collection

Holding institution:: Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine

Holding institution (official language):: Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України

Title:: Kanev County Voting Commission for Elections to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly

Title (official language):: Каневская уездная избирательная комиссия по выборам во Всероссийское Учредительное собрание

Creator/accumulator:: Kanev County Voting Commission for Elections to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly

Scope and content:: Included are registration documents and candidate lists of a number of Jewish political parties and associations (the Bund, the Jewish National Committee, the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party [Fareynikte], Po’ale Tsiyon, etc.); announcements regarding these parties’ delegation of representatives to work in electoral commissions at various levels, and data thereon; tally sheets of votes submitted in elections for particular slates of candidates from Jewish parties; mentions of the preponderance of Jewish residents in particular population centres; voter outreach materials, including election announcements in Russian and Yiddish; etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: These commissions were in charge of preparatory work to organize elections to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, a representative institution established on the basis of universal suffrage to draw up a constitution and establish the form the government of Russia would take. The convocation of the Constituent Assembly was considered the main task of the Russian Provisional Government, and was supported by the majority of political parties, including Jewish ones. Elections to the assembly took place from 12 (19) November 1917 to early 1918. The assembly’s first session took place 5 (18) January 1918 in the Tauride Palace in Petrograd. Insofar as the Constituent Assembly did not recognize decrees of Soviet power and refused to take up the “Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited People,” it was closed by order of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) of the RSFSR and was for all intents and purposes dispersed 6 (19) January 1918.

Subject terms:: Bund movement; Jewish political activity; Socialism; Socialism--Socialist parties and organisations; Zionism; Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties

System of arrangement:: Files in the fond are for the most part systematised chronologically.