Metadata: Institute of Party and October Revolution History in Ukraine of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; Odessa Regional Branch, Odessa
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області
- 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-2
- Title:
- Institute of Party and October Revolution History in Ukraine of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; Odessa Regional Branch, Odessa
- Title (official language):
- Інститут історії партії та Жовтневої революції на Україні при ЦК КП(б)У (Істпарт), Одеський обласний філіал, м. Одеса
- Creator/accumulator:
- Institute of Party and October Revolution History in Ukraine of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; Odessa Regional Branch, Odessa
- Date(s):
- 1905/1939
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 1,439 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists primarily of reminiscences of persons involved in the revolutionary movement in the Odessa region, and copies (made by personnel of the commission to preserve and analyse revolutionary archives) of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century documents of the gendarmerie administration of the city of Odessa and the Odessa Secret Political Police Department. Questionnaire forms and reminiscences (of A. Dudiuk, A. S. Kochanov, A. F. Maleev, N. M. Osipovich, F. Penin, P. D. Stoseeva, I. V. Shtul’baum, and others) contain, among other things, information on the pogrom against Jews in Odessa in October 1905, and in particular on the organisation of self-defence detachments (consisting of Georgian young people; students of the nautical school; railway manufacturing workers; and even local thieves); on armed clashes with troops and police involved in aiding and encouraging the pogromists; on the circumstances in which certain defence-squad members perished (A. G. Kldiashvili, L. V. Vysotskii, I. A. Sheludchenko, V. Shinkarzhevskii, F. T. Pasechnik, Ia. A. Pospeev); on the use of Novorossiia University as a coordination centre for Jewish self-defence; on the organisation of an infirmary for the wounded by Dr. Ch. Du-Bushe at his clinic in Otrada, and the establishment next to this of a feeding centre and shelter for refugees from Moldavanka; on the ambiguous behaviour of certain religious figures during and after the pogrom (rumours that Rabbi F. S. Avinovitskii had been observed in “provocateur relations” with Odessa City Prefect D. B. Neigart, and that Rabbi M. L. Kreps had allegedly gathered signed statements to the effect that the police were not involved in the pogrom; accusations that the priest M. D. Duditskii had been an instigator of the pogrom in Slobodka-Romanovka); etc.
Thematically related to this group of memoiristic sources are reports by emergency-medicine doctors on their work during the pogrom, which were written immediately after the events described. These reports indicate the time of emergency calls and places in which victims were found and the nature of their injuries, as well as the circumstances in which medical personnel operated and their personal impressions of events they witnessed. Some of the memoirs (those of N. Sirenko, F. Motriuk, and B. El’tsyn) also mention the pogroms that took place in 1905 in Kherson, Kishinev, Balta, Golta, and Ovidiopol’, while the recollections of P. M. Tur mention the pogromist activities of detachments under the command of N. I. Makhno (the “Makhnovtsy”), which attacked southern Jewish colonies in 1918. These memoiristic materials also cover events of the Civil War: pogroms carried out by White Guard forces; and Jewish colonists’ sympathetic attitude toward the rebels and assistance to them.
Copied materials contain information on the Odessa committee of the Bund, including a list of sixty-two persons who assembled to mark this body’s two-year anniversary (1905), and on the Odessa committee of Po’ale Tsiyon, and leaflets of both parties; reports of the head of the Odessa Gendarmerie Administration to the Department of the Police to the effect that there were approximately two hundred Bund members in Odessa, and that their numbers had increased upon the banning of Zionist assemblies, insofar as some Zionists were transitioning to the Bund, “due to which the personnel and material strength of the latter is growing significantly” (26 August 1903); to the effect that circulating rumours about an imminent pogrom had led to the formation of a Workers’ Committee to Combat Pogroms, which had set up a well-equipped printing press (19 September 1906); etc.; an announcement signed by “officers and enlisted men of the Odessa garrison” to the effect that, in light of the appearance of Black Hundred appeals calling for a new pogrom on 6 December 1906, they warned that they would no longer allow themselves to be deceived, and would not allow violence to be committed against noncombatants, and that “any police personnel found to be assisting pogromists would be exterminated without mercy”; etc.
Materials housed in the fonds also include pamphlets published by the Bund (in Yiddish): “Toward a History of the Belgian Workers’ Movement” and “Our Demands” (Geneva, 1905), and “Jewish Electoral Committees” (Vil’no, undated). There are also annual and semiannual reports on operations of the provincial bureau of the Odessa Party history department for 1923-24, which mention the preparation of the articles “On Pogroms and Self-Defense” by N. M. Osipovich and “The Pogrom in Odessa” by S. A. Semenov-Zuser, and the forwarding of these to the Party history department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine; and mention the transfer of the archive of the Odessa Committee of Po’ale Tsiyon for 1920-21 to the Party history department; an inventory of exhibit items of the Odessa Provincial Party History Department’s Museum of the October Revolution, which included photographs of Bund self-defence squads, leaflets and proclamations issued by a joint committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party and the Bund, etc.; minutes of sessions and member lists of the study group on national minorities’ participation in the revolutionary movement in Odessa, including information on the delivery (15 May 1927) of a report on the activities of the Bund in 1917-19; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was formed in April 1922 as the Party history department of the Odessa Provincial Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. It operated under the immediate supervision of the Party history department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. The Party history department was tasked with collecting, preserving, and analysing documents on the history of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine and the workers’ movement in the Odessa region. When the province was liquidated in 1925, the collection creator began to be called the area Party history department, and subsequently, upon the formation of the Odessa region, was merged with the regional Party archive to become a branch of the Institute of Party and October Revolution History in Ukraine of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, which in turn would undergo several name changes.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Avinovitskii, F. S.
- Du-Bushe, Ch.
- Duditskii, M. D.
- Dudiuk, A.
- El’tsyn, B.
- Kldiashvili, A. G.
- Kochanov, A. S.
- Kreps, M. L.
- Makhno, N. I.
- Maleev, A. F.
- Motriuk, F.
- Neigart, D. B.
- Osipovich, N. M.
- Pasechnik, F. T.
- Penin, F.
- Pospeev, Ia. A.
- Semenov-Zuser, S. A.
- Sheludchenko, I. A.
- Shinkarzhevskii, V.
- Shtul’baum, I. V.
- Sirenko, N.
- Stoseeva, P. D.
- Tur, P. M.
- Vysotskii, L. V.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Food distribution
- Black Hundreds
- Bund movement
- Civil wars
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Physicians and nurses
- Jewish self-defence and resistance
- Law enforcement
- Memoirs
- Military
- Museums
- Photographs
- Pogroms
- Pogroms--Kishinev pogrom
- Printing
- Rabbis
- Refugees
- Revolutions
- Testimony
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to the thematic-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary