Metadata: Balta Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; Balta
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області; Государственный архив Одесской области
- Postal address:
- 18, Zhukovskogo str., Оdessa, 65026, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (48) 722-9365
- Web address:
- http://archive.odessa.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- archive@odessa.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. P-12068
- Title:
- Balta Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; Balta
- Title (official language):
- Балтский окружной комитет КП(б)У, г. Балта; Балтський окружний комітет КП(б)У, м. Балта
- Creator/accumulator:
- Balta Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; Balta
- Date(s):
- 1923/1924
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- (192 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Among materials housed in the fonds (documents of the area committee’s general, organisational-instructional, and agitation-propaganda departments, and its subsection on education and statistics) are circulars of the Odessa Provincial Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine titled “On working with Jewish toilers in towns,” “On assisting the Jewish population’s transition to farming,” “On the antireligious campaign in connection with the upcoming fall Jewish religious holidays” (1924), etc.; minutes of sessions of the Jewish section of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee containing information on Jewish students from the Jewish sector of the Communist University for National Minorities of the West detailed to a session of practical work; on a campaign to increase the number of Jews serving in the Red Army in connection with its conversion to the militia system; on using the Jewish pavilion at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition to fight anti-Semitism; on a plan to hold a contest for the best organiser of cultural and educational activities [kul’trabotnik] aimed specifically at Jews; on liquidating the Jewish Public Committee to Aid Victims of the War and Pogroms (Evobshchestkom) (1923-24); etc.
Also included are reports of the central bureau of the Jewish section on a campaign it had conducted to raise funds for the construction of the Emes-Veker-Komfon airplane; on outreach to handicraftsmen; on the war on “clericalism”; on operations of the People’s Commissariat of Nationalities’ Central Jewish Bureau (1923); etc.; correspondence of the Balta Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine with district party committees on how to improve mass-political, educational, and antireligious work among the area’s national minorities (1924); plans of operation, minutes of sessions, and reports on the activities of the Balta Area Committee’s National Minorities’ Bureau; minutes of conferences of Jewish members of the Balta Communist Party organisation and of assemblies of Jewish draftees (1923-24); etc.
There are also lists of communists who had previously belonged to other parties (1923-24); an appeal to Jewish workers by the central committee of the Jewish Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Po’ale Tsiyon in connection with the party’s fifteen-year anniversary (1921); correspondence of the Jewish section of the Balta Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine with the central bureau of the Jewish section of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee on the theft of Torah scrolls that had taken place during the closing of the Birzula synagogue (1923-24); a catalogue of Jewish books issued by the publishing house Shul un Bukh (1923); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Area party committees were established in March 1923 upon the formation of areas (units replacing rural areas [volosti] and counties in a territorial-administrative reform in Ukraine at the time); they had oversight of operations of corresponding municipal and district committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine in the territory under their jurisdiction. They were originally under the jurisdiction of the Odessa Provincial Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. The party’s Balta Area Committee was dissolved on 12 October 1924 due to the liquidation of this area and the inclusion of its territory in the newly-formed Moldavian Autonomous SSR (part of the Ukrainian SSR). Upon the liquidation (1 June 1925) of the Odessa province, the Odessa Area Committee answered directly to the party’s Central Committee; it ceased operations in September 1930 upon the liquidation of the Odessa area. Mass political outreach to the Jewish population conducted by a given area party committee was performed specifically by its agitation-propaganda department, which included a subsection on national minorities and several sections devoted to particular ethnic groups. Among these was a Jewish section, whose mission was analogous to that of the Jewish section of a provincial party committee (see the historical information given in the description of f. P-3).
- Access points: locations:
- Balta
- Balta area
- Ukraine
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Anti-religious activity (Soviet Union)
- Antisemitism
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Communism--Communists
- Correspondence
- Crime
- Jewish holidays
- Military
- Publishing
- Synagogues
- Torah (scroll)
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary