Metadata: Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів громадських об’єднань України
- Postal address:
- 01011, м. Київ, вул. Генерала Алмазова, 8
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 285-55-16
- Web address:
- http://www.cdago.gov.ua/
- Email:
- cdago@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 1
- Title:
- Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
- Title (official language):
- Центральный Комитет Компартии Украины
- Creator/accumulator:
- Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
- Date(s):
- 1917/1991
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 160,379 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
Certain of the fond’s inventories include a significant quantity of documents pertaining to the history and culture of Jews in Ukraine.
Op. 20 (1918-41) has report synopses, minutes, and resolutions of the Second and Fourth All-Russian Conferences of Jewish Sections of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks); materials pertaining to a joint session of the Central Bureau of Jewish Sections of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Main Bureau of Jewish Sections of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (10 December 1919) on issues of how Jewish outreach should be arranged, and draft instructions for Jewish sections of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committees prepared by the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee’s Main Bureau of Jewish Sections (January 1920); minutes of sessions and conferences, reports, statements, circular letters, and other correspondence of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee’s Main Bureau of Jewish Sections and of Jewish departments of provincial committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, including on the publication and dissemination of Yiddish-language literature; on organising Jewish self-defence detachments; on outreach to Jewish youth; on the state of Jewish agricultural colonies in southern Ukraine; on the activities of the Jewish departments of Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine provincial committees of the Volhynia, Donetsk, Odessa, Nikolaev, Kremenets, Podolia, Poltava, and Khar’kov provinces, as well as reports and minutes of sessions thereof; an overview and memorandum by the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee’s Main Bureau of Jewish Sections on the Zionist movement in Ukraine, and on working in the Jewish milieu; a letter addressed to Joseph Stalin from the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee’s Central Bureau of Jewish Sections describing the activities of the Jewish Colonization Society in Paris as counterrevolutionary, and a report by the same Central Bureau of Jewish Sections on the activities of the Zionist party Ze’ire Zion.
Also included are materials on a schism in the Union of Jewish Communist Youth (Evkomol); on the campaign against the Zionist sports organisation Maccabee, and on its liquidation; proclamations, leaflets, and instructions of the Zionist Socialist Workers’ Party, the United All-Russian Organization of Zionist Youth (EVOSM), and other Zionist organisations in the Soviet Union, whose materials had been forwarded by area committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine to the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee’s Main Bureau of Jewish Sections; materials of the central committee of the Union of Jewish Communist Youth (Evkomol) in Ukraine (informational memoranda on the activities of Zionist organisations in Ukraine, and on aid to pogrom victims); information of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon on the Third Comintern; correspondence of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon’s Left Bank Bureau with committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, and with state and economic entities; materials of the Jewish Communist Party Po’ale Tsiyon on the war on Zionism and “Jewish clericalism,” on the “class essence of the organisation He-Ḥaluts,” and on subsidising the newspaper Komunistishe fon; memoranda and reports of the United Jewish Communist Workers’ Party (Fareynikte) and the Jewish Communist Workers’ Union (Komfarband) submitted to the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee; letters of the main committee of the Jewish Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Po’ale Tsiyon to the Kiev Provincial Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee.
Other documents include materials of the main committee of the Union of Jewish Toiling Masses (SETMASS); the charter, recordkeeping materials, and correspondence of the All-Ukrainian Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work among Jews (ORT); minutes of conferences of Jewish public committees, the People’s Commissariats of Social Services of the RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR, and representatives of party and public organisations on issues pertaining to aid to the Jewish population having suffered from pogroms; minutes of sessions of a commission organised by the NKVD, the Council of People’s Commissars, and the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) on deporting Jewish refugees back abroad; correspondence of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee’s Main Bureau of Jewish Sections and the All-Ukrainian Administration of the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET) on the state of outreach to the Jewish population of Ukraine and on convoking an All-Ukrainian Congress of the OZET; an overview by the information department of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee on manifestations of antisemitism among workers, office employees, and students; a stenogram of a conference held by the culture and propaganda department of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee on the issue of “the socialist construction of Birobidzhan”; a draft decree of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine Central Committee, information of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK), and a memorandum of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs on the issue of resettling Jews to Jewish national districts of southern Ukraine and Crimea.
Op. 22 (1941-53) contains reports and accounts by Ukrainian partisans and underground activists that mention shootings of the Jewish population, in particular, at Babi Yar; information on the rescue of Jews from ghettos and concentration camps; lists of participants in underground organisations and sabotage and partisan detachments with indications of their ethnic makeup; and stenograms of conferences with Jewish partisans.
Op. 23 (1941-59) contains fliers, announcements, and orders of German occupation authorities in Kiev; Extraordinary State Commission materials (Extraordinary State Commission photo albums titled “The Auschwitz Camp and Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders”; “Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the City of L’vov”; and “The Destruction of Jews in Poland”); a special communiqué of the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of State Security (NKGB) of 18 September 1944 titled “On Manifestations of Antisemitism in Ukraine”; anonymous letters on antisemitism in Kiev and Khar’kov; information and materials on antisemitism in party and Soviet organisations; a letter (18 May 1944) by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee on the grave condition of the Jewish population in liberated territories; draft decrees of the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars and information and materials on the resettlement of “former Soviet citizens of Jewish nationality” to Romania, and on these persons being stripped of Soviet citizenship (1945); a letter to the editor of the newspaper Eynikayt [Unity, the official newspaper of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee] and to the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine on the absence of efforts to engage in cultural-educational work among the Jewish population of the city of Kiev (1946); memoranda and information submitted by the deputy secretary of the regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the Jewish Autonomous Region to the USSR Council of Ministers and L. M. Kaganovich, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, on the resettlement of Jews from the Kherson and Nikolaev regions to the Jewish Autonomous Region; materials of plenary sessions of Ukrainian unions of workers in the arts condemning “cosmopolitans and Jewish nationalists” (1949); and documents on the activities of Jewish religious communities of Ukraine in the early postwar years.
Op. 24 (1950-67) contains materials on the arrests of “Jewish bourgeois Zionist nationalists” in Kiev and Nikolaev, and materials pertaining to verification of anonymous letters containing data on “the activities of Zionist organisations”; documents on the opening and inspection of Jews’ correspondence by postal censors, and information of the Ukrainian SSR KGB on cases of Jews listening to foreign anti-Soviet broadcasts; information on public reaction to TASS reports on “The Arrest of a Group of Saboteur-Doctors” (13 January 1953) and on “The Rehabilitation of the Group of Doctors Previously Arrested in Moscow” (4 April 1953); materials of a Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers’ Council on Religious Cults plenipotentiary describing the activities of Jewish religious communities in the 1950s and first half of the 1960s; informational letters of regional party committees analysing public reaction (including that of Jews) to the events in Poland, Hungary, and Egypt in 1956; information of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine to the effect that hostile “Jewish bourgeois nationalists and persons formerly involved in the Zionist underground” were becoming active; Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs documents on American Jewish organisations’ letters to the UN condemning anti-Jewish discrimination in the USSR; a special communiqué of the Kiev Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on mass meetings of Kiev Jews at Babi Yar that had not been sanctioned by the authorities, and materials on an accident that occurred during excavation aimed at destroying Babi Yar, and disaster relief measures taken in response (1961); information on visits to the USSR by American Jewish and Israeli tour groups (1967); and materials of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on public reaction in the Ukrainian SSR to the Six Day War in the Middle East.
Op. 25 (1968-88) contains letters of P. E. Shelest, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union describing “unhealthy developments among part of the Jewish population” and a revival of pro-emigration tendencies; a memorandum of the agitation and propaganda department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine titled “On the So-Called Jewish Question in the Ukrainian SSR,” and copies of letters written by Jews in Kiev and Khar’kov to Israeli PM Golda Meir; informational letters of regional party committees on work carried out toward “unmasking Zionist propaganda,” and P. E. Shelest’s proposal to reassess statutes on pension payments and redemption of government bonds vis-à-vis persons emigrating to Israel; Russian translations of articles by Western Sovietologists on the state of Soviet Jewry; decrees of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine stipulating that propaganda toward “countering the anti-Soviet and anticommunist activities of international Zionism” be intensified; letters of the Chernovtsy Regional Party Committee to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on the trend by which the number of persons petitioning for emigration to Israel was increasing; a telegram from New York City Mayor John Lindsay to the chair of the Kiev City Executive Committee on a memorial service to be held at Babi Yar in 1972, and informational communiqués on how Jews were holding unsanctioned mass meetings there; documents of the public prosecutor’s office and the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Internal Affairs and KGB on implementing joint measures toward preventing and “suppressing potential criminal actions on the part of pro-Israel elements”; a letter of V. V. Shcherbitskii to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union reporting on the writer V. P. Nekrasov’s meetings with “anti-Soviet Zionist elements”; and reports of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Internal Affairs on the state of work toward reviewing Jews’ petitions for permission to emigrate to Israel (1973-74).
This fond also contains information of the Foreign Tourism Administration on remarks made by foreign Jewish tourists during their stays in the Ukrainian SSR (1978-79); a decree of the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine on measures toward “unmasking the reactionary essence of international Zionism”; Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Internal Affairs reports on the increase in the number of applications for emigration to Israel in 1978 and 1979, and reports by several regional party committees, ministries, and agencies on issues pertaining to Jewish emigration to Israel (January 1980); information of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the activities of US and French Zionist organisations (December 1979); materials on the struggle against Zionism, in particular, on the preparation of a collection of documents titled Zionism – the Enemy of Social Progress (1981); decrees of the Ukrainian Communist Party Central Committee Politburo (8 February 1983) “On reinforcing measures toward countering the subversive anti-Soviet activities of foreign Zionist centres and antisocial elements from among pro-Zionist individuals,” and (13 November 1983) “On establishing the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public in Ukraine”; orientation materials of the agitation and propaganda department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (14 September 1984) titled “On the Subversive Anti-Soviet Propaganda Tendencies of Foreign Zionist Centres, and on Countermeasures”; information of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Internal Affairs titled “On Efforts by the Republic’s Internal Affairs Entities toward Neutralising Pro-Emigration Tendencies among Certain Soviet Citizens” (15 January 1988).
Op. 30 (1940-54) contains materials on resettling the Jewish population to the Jewish Autonomous Region, including a letter (18 August 1947) from that region’s leaders to L. M. Kaganovich, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, requesting assistance with regard to “voluntary resettlement,” and information (26 April 1948) of the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers’ Evacuation Administration on the resettlement of the Jewish population of the Kherson region to the Jewish Autonomous Region; information provided by P. N. Gapochka, head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, to this body’s secretary Nikita Khrushchev (28 February 1949) on the course of the second plenary session of the Union of Soviet Writers of Ukraine, at which all speeches delivered were “aimed at uncovering the hostile activities of bourgeois cosmopolitans and the reverberations thereof”; a letter from A. E. Korneichuk, chairman of the Union of Soviet Writers of Ukraine, to Nikita Khrushchev (3 March 1949) on the Kiev intelligentsia’s “ardent” support of criticism of bourgeois cosmopolitans, and on “organisational issues” [orgvoprosy] resolved at a session of the Ukrainian Union of Soviet Writers board (the dismissal of the literary scholar E. G. Adel’geim from his post as editor of the journal Vitchyzna and his removal from the Ukrainian Union of Soviet Writers board); and a memorandum by the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine titled “On the Makeup of Students of Ukrainian SSR Institutions of Higher Learning during the 1949-50 and 1950-51 Academic Years,” containing statistical data attesting to the systematic reduction of the number of Jews admitted to colleges and institutes.
Op. 32 (1970-91) contains materials on the efforts of party and Soviet entities to combat “Jewish nationalism, Zionism, and other anti-Soviet ideologies” (1972); information of the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public (AKSO) on contradictions within the Zionist movement (1989); and materials on events held in connection with the fifty-year anniversary of the Babi Yar atrocity (1990-91).
Op. 70 (1941-67) contains documents on manifestations of anti-Jewish policy on the part of state and party entities, in particular, the Kamenets-Podol’skii Jewish religious community’s complaint (31 July 1947) against the party and Soviet leadership of the USSR and Ukrainian SSR for refusing to allow this community to reopen the only synagogue in the city that had escaped destruction, to hold a funeral ceremony for fellow Jews who had perished, to put the mass graves thereof in order, etc.; materials on the war on “Jewish nationalism,” in particular, a note (dated 24 March 1949) of the secretary of the T. G. Shevchenko Kiev State University party committee Machikhin titled “On Measures Taken by the Kiev State University Party Organization to Combat Manifestations of Cosmopolitanism in Education and Research”; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was formed at the First Congress of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (5-12 July 1918). As the supreme administrative body of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, the Central Committee in turn included several collective administrative bodies – the plenum, politburo, organisational bureau [orgbiuro], and secretariat – the structure of which underwent modifications over time (thus for instance in September 1952, in connection with preparations for a new charter and the liquidation of the organisational bureau, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine plenum elected not a politburo, but a Central Committee bureau; in October 1953, the Central Committee bureau was replaced by a presidium; etc.). During its time as an underground entity, the Central Committee also established temporary administrative bodies: its bureau abroad, its executive bureau, its bureau for operations behind enemy lines, and its temporary bureau (1918-19); and the clandestine Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (1942). The structure of the Central Committee apparatus took shape gradually as well. As first worked out and approved in April 1919, only three departments were initially provided for. This number subsequently increased, particularly in the early 1930s as the Central Committee apparatus became more sectoral in nature; by 1941 it consisted of eighteen departments. In the early postwar years, the previously existing sections were supplemented with administrations devoted to personnel, agitation and propaganda, and control of party entities; but these administrations did not last long. In the spring of 1948, the administrations within the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine were liquidated, and their functions transferred to newly-created departments. The numerous sectoral departments were also consolidated, and reshaped in subsequent years as well. In 1971, there were again eighteen departments functioning within the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; after reorganisations and Central Committee staff cuts carried out in 1988 and 1990, only six departments remained, along with the party commission and administrative department. The Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine’s Main Bureau of Jewish Sections [Glavbiuro evsektsii] was established in August 1919; functioning until 1930, it was tasked with “providing the Jewish masses with a communist education.”
- Access points: persons/families:
- Adel’geim, E. G.
- Gapochka, P. N.
- Kaganovich, L. M.
- Khrushchev, Nikita
- Korneichuk, A. E.
- Lindsay, John
- Meir, Golda
- Nekrasov, V. P.
- Shcherbitskii, V. V.
- Shelest, P. E.
- Stalin, Joseph
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Aliyah
- Anti-Fascism
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Anticosmopolitan campaigns
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Birobidzhan
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Correspondence
- Doctors' Plot
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- Holocaust--Rescue and resistance
- Israel-Diaspora relations
- Jewish colonies
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Jewish self-defence and resistance
- Literature
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- ORT (Organisation for Rehabilitation through training)
- Photographs
- Pogroms
- Refugees
- Resettlement of Jews
- Sports
- Sports--Sports clubs
- Statistics
- Yiddish periodicals
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes seventy-seven inventories (numbered 1-215; several numbers are skipped) systematised mainly according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
