Metadata: Extraordinary Galicia Commission to Combat Counterrevolution, Speculation, and Corruption; Ternopol’
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- 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
- Postal address:
- 24 Solomianska Str., 03110 Kyiv
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- tsdavo.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 2997
- Title:
- Extraordinary Galicia Commission to Combat Counterrevolution, Speculation, and Corruption; Ternopol’
- Title (official language):
- Чрезвычайная галицкая комиссия по борьбе с контрреволюцией, спекуляцией и злоупотреблениями по службе, г. Тернополь
- Creator/accumulator:
- Extraordinary Galicia Commission to Combat Counterrevolution, Speculation, and Corruption; Ternopol’
- Date(s):
- 1920
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- German
- Polish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 177 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are documents attesting to the monitoring of Jews’ attendance of synagogues and holding of minyans (in Ternopol’, Terebovlia, and Tlumach); prohibitive resolutions upon reports and denunciations on the activities of Jewish religious, charitable, and professional societies and associations, particularly, a resolution stipulating the closure of a Jewish cafeteria in Stanislav that was supposedly serving as a place where counterrevolutionary activists shared information; and a resolution disbanding the Union of Jewish Craftsmen of Tarnopol’. There are also reports on searches and arrests of Jews accused or suspected of engaging in speculation; investigation documents (minutes of interrogations, statements of arrestees’ relatives and coworkers, etc.) and so-called “morality certificates” (a document, traditional in Austro-Hungarian legal practice, containing information on an individual) of persons accused of counterrevolutionary activities, of serving in the Polish Army or administrative institutions, of spying, etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established by directive of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDRP) as part of the Revolutionary Committee of Galicia on the eve of the Red Army’s advance in July 1920 during the Soviet-Polish War. Its official title was the All-Galician Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counterrevolution, Speculation, and Abuses of Office. It was active in the territory of the Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (declared 15 July 1920 in part of western Ukraine) in the period from late July to early October 1920. Answering to the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine and the People’s Commissariat of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection of the Ukrainian SSR, it sought out and liquidated so-called “hotbeds of counterrevolution,” which in practice took the form of suppressing criticism of the authorities’ actions, prosecuting persons having served in the Polish Army or suspected of spying for Poland, etc.
- Access points: locations:
- Terebovlia
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematised in accordance with the Extraordinary Galicia Commission’s structure.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary