Metadata: Minsk Military Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies
Collection
- Country:
- Belarus
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of the Republic of Belarus
- Holding institution (official language):
- Национальный архив Республики Беларусь
- Postal address:
- Nezavisimosti Ave. 116, Minsk, 220114, Belarus
- Phone number:
- (017) 272-67-78
- Web address:
- http://narb.by/eng
- Email:
- narb@narb.by
- Reference number:
- F. 5
- Title:
- Minsk Military Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies
- Title (official language):
- МИНСКИЙ ВОЕННЫЙ СОВЕТ РАБОЧЕ-КРЕСТЬЯНСКИХ И КРАСНОАРМЕЙСКИХ ДЕПУТАТОВ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Minsk Military Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies
- Date(s):
- 1918/1919
- Language:
- Russian
- Belarusian
- Extent:
- 14 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Housed in the fond are orders of the Minsk Military Council; minutes of meetings of the Minsk Provincial Military-Revolutionary Committee and of the executive committee of the Minsk Council of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies; bulletins and reports on the organization of Soviet agencies in Lithuania and Belarus, and on the course of reconstruction work in areas liberated from German occupation forces (1918/1919); telegrams on the course of negotiations with the German command on the withdrawal of German troops from the cities of Bobruisk and Gomel’ (Homiel) and the establishment of the demarcation line (1918). Materials pertaining to the history of Jews in this region include information on the attitudes of the Bund, the Jewish Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Po’ale Tsiyon, the Socialist Jewish Workers’ Party (SERP), and other organizations toward the revolutionary events of October 1917; reports on political attitudes among the Jewish population in 1917/1918; reports on the establishment of town councils of workers’, peasants’ and soldiers’ deputies, and on participation therein by representatives of Jewish communities (1919); data on the economic situation of the Jewish population (1918/1919); documents on the personnel of the Minsk Military Council, including employees’ ethnicity, education level, age, and family makeup (1918); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The council was established on 15th November 1918 as the supreme emergency organ of Soviet power in the territory of the Minsk province. It was vested with full power in the territory liberated from German forces until permanent authorities could be established. In addition to military affairs, the council was in charge of political, administrative, economic, and law enforcement matters, including the removal and prosecution of members of the Rada of the Belorussian People’s Republic (BNR). On 28th November 1918, by order of the Revolutionary-Military Council of the RSFSR in the territory of Smolensk, Vitebsk, Mogilev, Minsk, and Vilna provinces, the Minsk Military Area was established, to be run by the area commissariat for military affairs, which had been performing purely military functions. On 14th December 1918, the Minsk Military Area was renamed the Western Military Area (ZapVO). The Minsk Military Council ceased operations on 6th January 1919 following the establishment of the BSSR.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematized by subject matter.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary