Metadata: Zhitomir City Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth]; Zhitomir, 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-144
- Title:
- Zhitomir City Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth]; Zhitomir, Zhitomir Region
- Title (official language):
- Житомирский городской комитет ЛКСМУ, г. Житомир Житомирской обл.; Житомирський міський комітет ЛКСМУ, м. Житомир Житомирської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zhitomir City Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth]
- Date(s):
- 1922/1987
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 1,281 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included (op. 1) are circulars, directives, and instructional letters of the Central Committee and provincial committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth] on mass political work among Jewish youth and on Jewish propaganda collectives; on anti-religious campaigns and conferences of Jewish non-party youth during the Jewish high holidays; on work in towns; on “Jewish language” [eviazyk] propaganda collectives; on the struggle against Zionist youth groups, particularly Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa’ir, including data on their proliferation in the Volhynia province; etc.
Also included are minutes of sessions of the bureau and Jewish bureau of the Volhynia Provincial Committee and the Zhitomir City Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol and of the collegium of the Politprosvet [body devoted to political-educational work]. These dealt with the work of the Jewish section and of Yiddish-language political study groups, and the subscription to the Jewish communist press (the magazine Yungvald and the newspaper Der yunger arbeter) and the liquidation of cheders; etc.
There are also plans of operation of the Ukrainian Komsomol city committee’s Jewish bureau; reports of the provincial committee’s Jewish section; plans and methodological outlines for holding anti-religious holidays, including a “Red Seder”; materials on the history of the Komsomol cell of the Svheiprom [clothing/tailoring industry] factory, which began with a study group [kruzhok] of Jewish working youth organised in 1918 by the Bund; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- These bodies were established in 1919-20 as city committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol (KSMU; from 1924 on, after the Komsomol organisation was named after Lenin, the LKSMU, the Ukrainian Leninist Communist Union of Youth). At different times, with changes in administrative-territorial divisions, they were under the jurisdiction of the Volhynia and Kiev Provincial Committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol (KSMU/LKSMU); the Berdichev and Volhynia (Zhitomir) Area Committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol (LKSMU); the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol (LKSMU); and the Kiev and Zhitomir Regional Committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol (LKSMU). They were liquidated in September 1991 in connection with the disbanding of the All-Union Komsomol (LKSMU).
- Access points: locations:
- Ukraine
- Volhynia province
- Zhitomir
- 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