Metadata: Borisov Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia
Collection
- Country:
- Belarus
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Minsk Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Государственный архив Минской области
- Postal address:
- ul. Kozlova, 26, Minsk, 220037, Belarus
- Phone number:
- +375 (17) 358 55 64
- Web address:
- www.gamn.by
- Email:
- minoblarhiv@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- F. 517-P
- Title:
- Borisov Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia
- Title (official language):
- БОРИСОВСКИЙ ОКРУЖНОЙ КОМИТЕТ КП(б)Б
- Creator/accumulator:
- Borisov Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia
- Date(s):
- 1924/1927
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Belarusian
- Extent:
- 252 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The fond contains a significant volume of documents that pertain to Jewish history; these may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) General statistical and demographic information and materials from surveys of the Jewish population of the Borisov area, including records, summaries, and memoranda on the size of the area’s Jewish population (1925-26); on the economic situation of Jewish residents of cities and towns in the area – their standard of living, family budgets, and salaries, and information on the prevalence of unemployment and hunger (1924-26); on the war on underground cheders, yeshivas, and Talmud-Torahs; on the elimination of illiteracy (1925); on the number of Jewish educational institutions, students and teaching staff, and on Jewish kindergartens and children’s shelters (1925-26); on Jewish national councils and court chambers in the area; on the number of Jews in party, Soviet, and state and public institutions, organizations, etc. (1925-27).
2) Materials of the Main Bureau of the Jewish Section and of the Jewish Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia (1924-27), including minutes of Jewish Bureau meetings and plenary sessions attended by such Jewish public figures as S. Agurskii, A. Beilin, A. Volobrinskii, M. Hokhman, H. Dunets, D. Matz, E. Osherovich, B. Orshanskii, and others; resolutions and directives, in particular, a resolution of an expanded Jewish Bureau plenary session (November 1926) on a report by A. Beilin on the work of the Jewish Bureau; etc. (1925-27); correspondence of the Main Bureau of the Jewish Section with the Borisov Area Committee on various issues (1926-27); etc.
3) Documents of the Jewish Bureau of the Borisov Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia, including minutes of meetings and operational plans and reports (1925-26); bulletins, reports, and correspondence with the Berezino, Borisov, Zembin, Krupki, Lepel’, Pleschenitsy, Kholopenichi, and Chereia district and municipal committees on political-educational and cultural work among the Jewish population (1924-27); reports of grassroots party organizations, Jewish culture inspectors, plenipotentiaries of district party committees, and various institutions of the Borisov district on outreach to Jews, with appended minutes of general assemblies of Jewish communists and of Jewish Komsomol members and non-party members, and conferences of the Jewish working population (1926-27); materials on the activities of the plenipotentiary for the Berezino district, including reports and operational plans regarding the Jewish population; correspondence on organizational issues with Berezino District Committee members I. S. Rivkind and N. I. Glauberman and with N. O. Lifshits, head of the party cell of the settlement of Bogushevsk; a note on the holding of a lecture about Sholom Aleichem; a list of persons identified as belonging to a Zionist organization in the Berezino district, with their positions and places of employment indicated (1926); etc.
4) Documents on the land settlement of Jews and the organizing of Jewish collective, state, etc. farms in the Borisov area, including a copy of the charter of the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET; 1924); materials for a report by the Committee on Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (KOMZET) of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR and by the OZET on Jewish land settlement in the BSSR in 1924-25; correspondence of the OZET’s central board with its Borisov branch, in particular, on preparations for the All-Union Congress of the OZET in 1926; on cooperation with the Agro-Joint, the Jewish Colonization Society, the ORT Union, Argentina’s PROKOR society (the Society to Assist the Productivization of the Economically Ruined Jewish Masses in the Soviet Union), the Zangwill Committee, the Alliance isrаélite universelle, etc. (1926); a report of the Commission on Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers of the Central Executive Committee of the Belorussian SSR (BelKOMZET) on its work in 1926; minutes of meetings and conferences of the Belorussian branch of the OZET (BelOZET), including of its presidium and board (1926-27); correspondence of the BelOZET with the Borisov Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia and the Borisov branch of the OZET, in particular, on using emergency funding provided under the 1925-26 budget for land reclamation in the Belorussian SSR (1926), including a letter from BelOZET Chair I. S. Ugorskii regarding the submission of statistical reports on the work of the Borisov branch of the OZET (1927); etc.; minutes of meetings and reports of the board of the Borisov branch of the OZET and of its audit commission (1926); lists of Jewish collective farms in the Borisov area, with appended statistical data on their operations (1926), as well as of agricultural collectives and settlements organized in 1926; bulletins, summaries, and reports on the course of Jewish land settlement in the Borisov area (1926); information on new plots allocated for Jewish land settlement in the area in 1927; a memorandum titled “Characteristic Features and the Status and Prospects of Developing Collective Farms with the Jewish Population of the Borisov Area” by M. Feigin, an agronomist involved in the land settlement of Jews (1927); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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In connection with the consolidation of the Belorussian SSR, the second session of the BSSR Central Executive Committee (sixth convocation; 10-17 June 1924) directed that counties and volosti be replaced by areas (okruga); areas would in turn be divided into districts, and districts into village councils. In accordance with this administrative reorganization, area and district committees of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia were established. From 1924-27, these were the party’s central governing bodies in the area. Duties of area committees included approving district organizations and party cells; organizing the various party institutions within the area and overseeing their activities; distributing the party’s material, financial, and other resources within the area; managing the area treasury; and reporting on their activities to the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia in a format established by that body. Area committees were headed by first secretaries, who were in charge of the local district and municipal party committees within their area. First secretaries were formally elected by area committee bureaus but in reality were appointed by leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia.
The Borisov Area Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia was established in August 1924. It ceased operations in 1927 in connection with the liquidation of the Borisov area.
- Access points: locations:
- Bogushevsk
- Borisov
- Chereia
- Kholopenichi
- Krupki
- Lepel’
- Zembin
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Children
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Students
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Financial records
- Jewish political activity
- Legal matters
- Literature
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Poverty
- Statistics
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionists
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematized chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary