Metadata: People’s Commissariat of Social Services of the Ukrainian SSR; Kiev
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. 348
- Title:
- People’s Commissariat of Social Services of the Ukrainian SSR; Kiev
- Title (official language):
- Наркомат социального обеспечения Украинской ССР, г. Киев
- Creator/accumulator:
- People’s Commissariat of Social Services of the Ukrainian SSR; Kiev
- Date(s):
- 1919/1988
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 5,829 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are documents that shed light on the after-effects of pogroms against Jews in Ukraine, and the activities of the People’s Commissariat of Social Services in dealing with same. These include correspondence between the People’s Commissariats of Social Services of the Ukrainian SSR and the RSFSR on the need to establish a count of victims, and on collecting various materials pertaining to the history of anti-Jewish pogroms, and sending these to Moscow; minutes of sessions of the collegium of the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Social Services and local-level reports on violence against Jews, particularly on a pogrom perpetrated by forces under the command of Ataman N. Grigor’ev in Elizavetgrad (1919); orders and instructions of the collegium of the People’s Commissariat of Social Services on categorising Jews having suffered from pogroms as victims of counterrevolution, and statistical reports on social aid allocated to them; a request by the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Social Services that A. F. Maleev’s pamphlet Thirty Days of an Anti-Jewish Pogrom in the Town of Krivoe Ozero (1920) be translated into Ukrainian (this was published by the All-Ukrainian Publishing House [Vseukrizdat]). There are also documents on Jewish refugees, including minutes of sessions of the collegium of the People’s Commissariat of Social Services at which issues pertaining to the concentration of Jewish refugees in border regions of Ukraine were taken up, as was the serious epidemiological situation thereof; materials of the First All-Ukrainian Conference of Heads of Subsections on Aid to Victims of Counterrevolution (17-22 June 1921), which contain informational reports on the number of pogrom victims, the dire condition thereof at the local level, and the growing wave of Jewish refugees; data on the People’s Commissariat of Social Services’ coordination with other people’s commissariats, the Southwestern Front HQ, and various commissions, committees, and public organisations in organising aid to Jewish pogrom victims and refugees; minutes of sessions of the collegium of the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Social Services on the political advisability of working together with various Jewish public organisations, and on its rejection of joint-venture proposals made by the Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Victims (EKOPO), as well as a copy of an agreement between the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Social Services and the Ukrainian Jewish Public Committee to Aid Victims of Pogroms (Ukrevobshchestkom) on coordinating central and local-level efforts to aid persons having suffered from pogroms. There is also a particular set of documents reflecting the activities of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Public Committee to Aid Victims of Pogroms (Vseukrevobshchestkom) in its attempts to deal with the aftermath of famine and anti-Jewish pogroms in 1921-23; these include minutes of sessions of the Vseukrevobshchestkom presidium, and materials pertaining thereto; information on the personnel makeup of its local entities; reports on the activities of its district sub-commissions; informational reports on the opening of public feeding institutions, the organising of schools, the receipt of charitable aid from abroad and its distribution among Jews, on providing Jewish agricultural colonies with food and technical support, etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was formed as part of the Provisional Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine on 29 January 1919 to carry out the social policies of Soviet power. It had local entities, namely, provincial, county, and local departments of social services. In the summer of 1919, after the fall of Soviet power in Ukraine, the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Social Services was evacuated to the territory of the RSFSR along with other government institutions. When entities of Soviet power resumed operations in Ukraine in February 1920, the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars organised an administration for the plenipotentiary of the RSFSR People’s Commissariat of Labour and Social Services, and the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Social Services was reestablished in June 1920. Beginning in 1946, it was called the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Social Services; now it is the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Ukraine.
- Access points: locations:
- Kiev
- Krivoe Ozero
- Moscow
- Access points: persons/families:
- Grigor’ev, N.
- Maleev, A. F.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes four inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
