Metadata: Ukrainian Political Literature Publishing House (Politizdat Ukrainy) of the Ukrainian SSR State Committee on Publishing, Printing, and the Book Trade; 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. 4784
- Title:
- Ukrainian Political Literature Publishing House (Politizdat Ukrainy) of the Ukrainian SSR State Committee on Publishing, Printing, and the Book Trade; Kiev
- Title (official language):
- Издательство политической литературы Украины Государственного комитета УССР по делам издательств, полиграфии и книжной торговли (Политиздат Украины), г. Киев
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ukrainian Political Literature Publishing House (Politizdat Ukrainy) of the Ukrainian SSR State Committee on Publishing, Printing, and the Book Trade; Kiev
- Date(s):
- 1944/1978
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 98 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials pertaining to Jewish history and culture include orders of the publishing house’s board of directors that anti-Zionist books be published that would propagandise decisions of congresses, conferences, and Central Committee plenary sessions of the USSR Communist Party; lists, brief annotations, and information on the scope, print run, and retail prices of books the publishing house was preparing or had already published in the context of the campaign against “rootless cosmopolitans” and the unmasking of the “reactionary essence” of Judaism, Zionism, and US and Israeli policies. These books include G. Emel’ianenko, On Proletarian Internationalism and Bourgeois Cosmopolitanism (1950); M. Fridel’, Zionism, a Weapon of Imperialism (1967); Ia. Edel’man, Zionism Means War (1971); R. M. Brodskii, Zionism and its Class Essence (1972); L. Berenshtein, Zionism and Racism (1978); etc. There are also explanatory notes to subject-matter plans for prospective releases in which the publishing house’s most pressing task is said to be to publish books that lay bare the “hostile activities of world reaction,” particularly of “international Zionism.”
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian SSR government’s Political Literature Publishing House was established by decree (23 April 1938) of the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars. During the Second World War it was evacuated to Ufa and made a part of the Ukrainian Publishing House (Ukrizdat) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. It was renamed the Ukrainian State Publishing House (UkrGosizdat) by decision (29 August 1943) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; and in 1945 it was reorganised, now divided into the Political Literature Publishing House (Politizdat TsK KP[b]U) and the State Literature Publishing House (the Ukrainian SSR Goslitizdat). The latter was soon withdrawn from UkrGosizdat, while the former was renamed (beginning March 1946) the Ukrainian Political Literature Publishing House (Ukrpolitizdat) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. Beginning February 1949, Ukrpolitizdat was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers and received the title State Political Literature Publishing House (Gospolitizdat) of Ukraine; the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture ordered it transferred to the jurisdiction of the Main Administration of Publishing, Printing, and the Book Trade beginning 23 June 1959. From February 1964 on, it was called the Ukrainian Political Literature Publishing House (Politizdat Ukrainy), and answered directly to the Ukrainian SSR State Committee on the Press. Politizdat specialised in publishing classic works of Marxism-Leninism and mass literature propagandising Soviet foreign and domestic policy, as well as materials of USSR and Ukrainian SSR Communist Party congresses, conferences, plenary sessions, etc.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Berenshtein, L.
- Brodskii, R. M.
- Edel’man, Ia.
- Emel’ianenko, G.
- Fridel’, M.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematised according to the subject-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
