Metadata: Olevsk District Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth]; Olevsk, 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-151
- Title:
- Olevsk District Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth]; Olevsk, Zhitomir Region
- Title (official language):
- Олевский районный комитет ЛКСМУ, г. Олевск Житомирской обл.; Олевський районний комітет ЛКСМУ, м. Олевсък Житомирської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Olevsk District Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth]
- Date(s):
- 1923/1987
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 993 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included are directives, circulars, and instructions of the Central Committee and the Zhitomir (Volhynia) and Korosten’ Area Committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol [Leninist Communist Union of Youth] on organisational forms of work among national minorities, including among Jewish youth in towns; on the necessity of deploying a broad anti-religious campaign during the Jewish high holidays; on summertime work among Jewish pioneers and Jewish children; on the struggle against antisemitism; on setting up a Ukrainian Komsomol cell at the Zhitomir Jewish Pedagogical Courses; on distributing national-minority publications among Jewish youth, including the newspaper Yunge gvardye; etc.).
Also included are a clarification of the Zhitomir Area Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol in connection with a decree of the Miropol’ District Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol establishing a separate Jewish cell in the town of Romanov (on how Komsomol organisations were to be arranged not by nationality but according to the production-territorial principle, 1925); minutes of sessions of the bureaus of area and district committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol on the state of Jewish youth outreach; on manifestations of antisemitism and the authorities’ responses to them; on the activities of Zionist groups and their influence on the young generation; on translating Komsomol organisation paperwork into Yiddish; on the need to improve the Abezhaus and Protasov textbook, recommended for educating Komsomol members at Jewish political schools; on a month-long campaign of the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers [OZET]; on results of a seminar of “Jewish leaders” [evvozhatye]; on the organisation of a Yiddish-language labour union school in Zhitomir; etc.
Other material includes the minutes of general assemblies of Komsomol organisations, and in particular of the Gorodnitsa and Olevsk porcelain factories, which had received negative evaluations with regard to relations between Ukrainian and Jewish youth (1928); plans of operation of Jewish sections and Jewish instructors of area committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol; information on Komsomol cells and political schools which conducted their work in Yiddish, and on the number of Jewish Komsomol members; statements and reports on the work of the Korosten’ and Gorodnitsa Jewish political schools of the first level, the Ushomir Youth Section, Jewish pioneer troops, and questionnaire forms and statistical data about them.
There are also lists of Jewish members of propaganda collectives; data on the ethnic makeup of organisations of the Komsomol and of the children’s communist movement in the Korosten’ area; lists of Jewish literature recommended for study by Komsomol members; information on subscribing to the newspapers Yunge gvardye and Der yunger pioner; notifications on the establishment of a Jewish political school in the town of Ushomir; on admissions to the Leningrad Industrial Jewish Workers’ Faculty [Rabfak] and the Jewish Department of the Second Moscow State University; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- District Komsomol committees were established in 1923 in connection with a reorganisation of the administrative-territorial division of Ukraine to replace the dissolved rural and county committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol (KSMU; from 1924 on, after the Komsomol organisation was named for Lenin, the LKSMU, the Ukrainian Leninist Communist Union of Youth). They were initially subordinate to corresponding area committees of the Ukrainian Komsomol; from 1932, to the Kiev Regional Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol; and after the formation of the Zhitomir region in September 1937, to the Zhitomir Regional Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol. They temporarily ceased activities in 1941-43 due to the German occupation of the territory of the Zhitomir region. The Gorodnitsa, Kodnia, Ushomir, and Fasovaia District Committees were liquidated in connection with the dissolution of their districts (in 1957, 1925, 1930, and 1925 respectively); the Olevsk District Committee was liquidated in 1991 in connection with the disbanding of the All-Union Komsomol.
- Access points: locations:
- Gorodnitsa
- Korosten’ area
- Leningrad
- Miropol’
- Moscow
- Olevsk
- Ukraine
- Ushomir
- Volhynia
- Zhitomir
- Subject terms:
- Anti-religious activity (Soviet Union)
- Antisemitism
- Children
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Jewish holidays
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Statistics
- Yiddish periodicals
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- Files in the fonds are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle, and chronologically.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary