Metadata: Korosten’ Area Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth]; Korosten’, Korosten’ Area
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-95
- Title:
- Korosten’ Area Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth]; Korosten’, Korosten’ Area
- Title (official language):
- Коростенский окружной комитет ЛКСМУ, г. Коростень Коростенского окр.; Коростенський окружний комітет ЛКСМУ, м. Коростень Коростенського окр.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Korosten’ Area Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth]
- Date(s):
- 1923/1930
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 343 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included (op. 1) are directives and circulars of the Central Committee and the Korosten’ Area Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth] on the results of the All-Union Conference of Jewish Sections; on working in organisations of mixed [i.e., Ukrainian and Jewish] makeup; on political-education work in Yiddish; on setting deadlines for Komsomol members wishing to resettle to Birobidzhan; on holding a two-week public awareness and membership recruitment campaign in Ukraine for the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers [OZET]; on fundraising toward the construction of the Yidisher horepashnik [Jewish toiler] airplane; on convening the All-Union Congress of Jewish Cultural-Educational Workers [kul’trabotniki]; and on the training and retraining of “Jewish activists” [evaktiv]; etc.).
Also included are minutes of sessions of the Main Bureau of the Jewish Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine and of the Jewish Bureau of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol on the All-Union Conference of Jewish Proletarian Writers; on the organisation of Komsomol cells in Jewish resettlement collectives; on the state of Yiddish-language vocational training; on the organisation of young Jewish literary workers and the makeup of the editorial board of the newspaper Yunge gvardye; plans of operation and reports of the Jewish section of the Central Committee and Korosten’ Area Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol; and resolutions of the Seventh All-Union Conference of the Jewish Section of the All-Union Komsomol.
A number of documents deal with work with Jewish pioneers. Among these are directives on issues regarding mass political work among national-minority children; biannual reports of Jewish pioneer troops; questionnaire forms of Jewish students enrolled in correspondence courses on pioneer work; lists of Jewish pioneer literature and a preliminary layout for the pioneer newspaper Zay greyt.
There is also a selection of materials on manifestations of anti-Semitism at the Bronnitsy Glass Works and a circular report on the consequences of anti-Semitic taunting of a Jewish woman-worker in Belorussia (1928-29); an inquiry from the Korosten’ Area Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol to the Olevsk District Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol regarding a Jewish youth (B. Shuster) expelled from the Komsomol for concealing his social background and for having previously belonged to a Zionist organisation (1928); minutes of a session of the pedagogic council of the Korosten’ Jewish Political School of the first level and an allocation sheet of the Kiev Jewish Soviet Party School for the Korosten’ Area Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol (1926); a sample questionnaire for Jewish activists; a Tsentrizdat (Central State Publishing House of Ukraine) catalogue with a list of Yiddish-language books; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Area Komsomol committees were established in 1923 in the course of a reorganisation of the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine. They were initially subordinate to the Volhynia and Kiev Provincial Committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth, LKSMU], and from late 1925, upon the liquidation of provinces, they were immediately subordinate to the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol. They were disbanded in 1930 in connection with the liquidation of areas, renewing their activities in 1935, when they were under the jurisdiction of the Kiev (the Zhitomir and Korosten’ Area Committees) and Vinnitsa (the Berdichev Area Committee) Regional Committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol. They were finally dissolved in October 1937 upon the second liquidation of areas and the formation of the Zhitomir region, and their Komsomol organisation leadership functions were transferred to the newly-elected Zhitomir Regional Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol.
- Access points: locations:
- Belorussiya
- Birobidzhan
- Bronnitsy
- Korosten’ area
- Olevsk
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Shuster, B.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Birobidzhan
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Vocational training
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Literature
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Publishing
- Yiddish periodicals
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes three inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary