Metadata: Liubar District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Liubar, Zhitomir Region
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Zhitomir Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Житомирської області
- Postal address:
- 2/20 Ohrimova Hora Str.. Zhytomyr, 10003, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0412) 42-48-00
- Web address:
- http://archive.zt.gov.ua/
- Email:
- archive_zt@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. P-127
- Title:
- Liubar District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Liubar, Zhitomir Region
- Title (official language):
- Любарский районный комитет КПУ, пгт Любар Житомирской обл.; Любарський районний комітет КПУ, смт Любар Житомирської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Liubar District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
- Date(s):
- 1921/1991
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 5,011 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The general description below relates to thirty fonds of the Andrushevka, Bazar, Baranovka, Barashi, Berdichev, Volodarsk-Volhynskii, Gorodnitsa, Dzerzhinsk, Emil’chino, Korosten’, Korostyshev, Luginy, Liubar, Malin, Narodichi, Novograd-Volhynskii, Ovruch, Radomyshl’, Ruzhin, Slovechno, Cherniakhov and Chudnov District Committees of the Communist Party of Ukraine; and of the Vcheraishe, Ivankov, Kodnia, Senno-Pavlikovka, Troianov, Ushomir, Chepovichi and Ianushpol’ District Committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.
Included are circulars, directives, decrees, and orders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, the Central Commission on National Minorities, the Ukrainian Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (UkrOZET), the Volhynia Provincial Committee, the Zhitomir (Volhynia) and Berdichev Area Committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, and the Kiev and Vinnitsa Regional Committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine on the “struggle against clericalism” and the conduct of anti-religious propaganda; on procedures for the requisition of church valuables to benefit famine victims; on exposing participants in the Zionist movement; on retraining Jewish plenipotentiaries and on the participation thereof in recruiting the Jewish population to the Red Army; on the conduct of the campaign to register the Jewish population wishing to transition to agriculture; on the organisation of Jewish resettlement societies and agricultural collectives; on two-week campaigns of the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET); on public awareness outreach in connection with the ten-year anniversary of the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1919; on strengthening party oversight of town branches of the Aid [Pomoshch’] society; on dissemination of the Jewish communist press; on selecting candidates for study at the Kiev Jewish Soviet-Party School and the Jewish Sector of Moscow’s Iu. Iu. Markhlevskii University for National Minorities of the West; on the Yiddish page of the newspaper Radians’ka Volin’; on the liquidation of the Zhitomir branch of the Shul un bukh publishing house (1927); etc.;
Also included are minutes of plenary sessions of the Main Bureau of Jewish Sections of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, of sessions of agitational-propaganda departments, of Jewish bureaus, Jewish sections, and national-minority collegia of area and district committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, and of general assemblies of Jewish communists. These took up, among other questions, issues connected with the state of “national-minority work” among “Jewish toilers,” the activities of the Jewish Section, the conduct of anti-religious propaganda, the struggle against antisemitism, the Jewish population’s participation in report-and-election campaigns for local councils; the opening of Jewish labour schools, anti-illiteracy [likbez] institutions and “reading huts” [khaty-chital’ni]; the translation of party cell paperwork into Yiddish; the dissemination of the Jewish communist press; monitoring of the course of the registration of Jewish resettlers, and popularising resettlement to Birobidzhan among the Jewish population; fundraising toward construction of the Yidisher horepashnik (Jewish toiler) airplane; setting up a Jewish department of the conservation area in the town of Pogrebishche; events devoted to the ten-year anniversary of the death of Sholom Aleichem and Mendele Moykher-Sforim; etc.
Other documents include plans of operation and reports of national-minority bureaus, Jewish sections, and Jewish plenipotentiaries of area and district committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; accounting schemes for “Jewish work” [evrabota] by district; resolutions adopted at area conferences of Jewish party workers, and at the First All-Ukrainian Congress of the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET) (regarding reports on work among craftsmen and on “Jewish work” in towns).
A significant portion of materials discovered in the fonds is devoted to the party-political education of the Jewish population, including in their native language, and to the struggle against “Jewish clericalism” and against the Zionist movement. Among these are discussions about the essence of Zionism; talking points for a report on the history of the Jewish people and the origin of Jewish holidays; talking points for agitators (on economic work among the Jewish population and for presentations at non-party conferences of Jewish workers and craftsmen); materials on the work of a network of political-literacy and party-educational schools, including ones where teaching was conducted in Yiddish, and lists of literature recommended for these; a memorandum on the course curriculum for the training of personnel for propaganda work on religion, which was devoted to the history of Judaism; programmes for anti-religious evenings (on the eve of Yom Kippur); survey questionnaires for cultural-educational work among the Jewish population; information on underground cheders and on emigration to Palestine; lists of “Jewish activists” [evaktiv] and subscription campaign goals for Jewish newspapers (Der emes, Der shtern, Der arbeter, Yunge gvardye); etc.
There are also materials on inter-ethnic conflicts; on manifestations of antisemitism on the part of particular officials, and the authorities’ responses to them; inspection certificates of Jewish village councils, and survey materials on Jewish towns; statistical data on national Jewish schools in the Zhitomir, Korosten’, and Shepetovka areas, and the number of students in them; a statute on Jewish plenipotentiaries; survey questionnaires on the economic and cultural state of the Jewish population; charters of the All-Ukrainian Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET) and instructions on organisational issues for its local branches; educational materials for admission to preparatory courses of the Zhitomir Jewish Pedagogical Technical School; etc.
Among documents pertaining to a later period are individual accounts of mass shootings of Jewish residents during the Second World War.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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District committees were established in 1923 in connection with the reorganisation of the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine to replace the dissolved rural and county committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. Initially they were subordinate to corresponding area committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; from September 1930, upon the liquidation of areas, they were immediately subordinate to the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; from 1932, to the Kiev and Vinnitsa Regional Committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; and after the formation of the Zhitomir region in September 1937, to the Zhitomir Regional Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. They oversaw primary party organisations.
During the Second World War, as a consequence of the German occupation (1941-43) of the territory of the Zhitomir region, they ceased activities temporarily. In 1963, they were reorganised as party committees of industrial and kolkhoz-sovkhoz administrations, resuming activities in December 1964 as unified district committees of the Communist Party of Ukraine. They were liquidated in connection with the disbanding of districts: the Bazar district in 1959; the Barashi, Vcheraishe, and Slovechno districts in 1962; the Gorodnitsa, Troianov, and Ianushpol’ districts in 1957; the Ivankov district in 1930; the Kodnia district in 1925; the Senno-Pavlikovka district in 1925; the Ushomir district in 1930; the Chepovichi district in 1954; and the rest pursuant to the edict of the Presidium of the Supreme Rada of Ukraine (26 August 1991) “On the temporary cessation of the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine.”
- Access points: locations:
- Berdichev area
- Birobidzhan
- Korosten’ area
- Liubar
- Moscow
- Pogrebishche
- Shepetovka area
- Ukraine
- Volhynia province
- Zhitomir
- Zhitomir area
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mendele Moykher-Sforim
- Sholem Aleichem
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Anti-religious activity (Soviet Union)
- Antisemitism
- Birobidzhan
- Christianity
- Christianity--Churches (building)
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Education
- Education--Cheders
- Education--Schools and universities
- Famine
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Jewish press
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Libraries
- Literature
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Mass murder
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Military
- Plunder
- Pogroms
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Publishing
- Resettlement of Jews
- Statistics
- World War II
- Zionism
- Zionism--Anti-Zionism
- Zionism--Zionists
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary