Metadata: The Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia Faction of the Minsk Area Executive Committee
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. 3135-P
- Title:
- The Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia Faction of the Minsk Area Executive Committee
- Title (official language):
- Фракция КП(б)Б Минского окружного исполнительного комитета
- Creator/accumulator:
- The Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia Faction of the Minsk Area Executive Committee
- Date(s):
- 1925/1929
- Language:
- Russian
- Belarusian
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Extent:
- 11 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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Materials housed in the fond that pertain to Jewish history and culture may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups:
1) Statistical and demographic data on the Jewish population of the city of Minsk and the Minsk area from the 1926 census, including census sheets, registration cards, questionnaire forms, family lists, and reports by statistics bureaus and area police departments’ passport offices on the demographic development and ethnic makeup of the population of the area, including the Jewish population (1926-27).
2) Materials provided by the Communist Party faction of the Minsk Area Executive Committee on the effort to combat Judaism and seize property from Jewish congregations in the city of Minsk, in particular, synagogue buildings and houses of worship, to be used as workers’ clubs, libraries, schools, and other Soviet institutions (1925-29).
3) Documents on secular and religious Jewish education in the city of Minsk and the Minsk area, including information on the elimination of underground cheders and yeshivas and the recruitment of Jewish children and youth to Soviet primary, secondary, and higher educational institutions; lists of Jewish schools, reports on their work, and information on teachers and students; correspondence regarding the construction, equipping, and furnishing of schools, and their textbook supply; information on the number of Jewish pupils in general schools; etc. (1921-35);
4) Materials of the land departments of area councils and executive committees on the land settlement of Jews, including information on the allotment of land to Jews; the organization and operations of Jewish agricultural cooperatives and colonies and collective, state, and individual farms; the resettlement of Jews to Crimea and Birobidzhan; the financial situation of Jewish farmers, in particular, documents of the 2nd All-Belorussian Congress of Jewish Peasants (1928).
- 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) and districts. Established in accordance with this directive were area and district councils and their executive bodies (executive committees). The area executive committee was elected by the area congress of councils and consisted of twenty-five members and seven candidates. The committee formed a presidium consisting of five to seven members (the chair, deputy chair, secretary, and two other members). An area executive committee usually had nine departments: the secretariat, finances and taxes, land, military, communal services, public education, healthcare, social security, and labor. In addition to day-to-day administrative matters, such committees’ duties included the following: implementing the decrees, rulings, and orders of the central authorities of the Belorussian SSR; overseeing the operations of all Soviet institutions located within the area; protecting “revolutionary order”; monitoring and auditing the activities of independent state institutions and enterprises; and promulgating binding resolutions, imposing administrative penalties, etc. At the same time, executive committees organized factions of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Belorussia.
The Minsk Area Council and its executive committee were established in August 1924. Pursuant to a 26 June 1930 resolution of the BSSR Central Executive Committee and Council of People’s Commissars liquidating areas as an administrative-territorial unit, the Minsk Area Council and its executive committee ceased operations.
- Access points: locations:
- Minsk
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Anti-religious activity (Soviet Union)
- Birobidzhan
- Census
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Students
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Jewish colonies
- Personal records
- Plunder
- Resettlement of Jews
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The fond’s inventories are systematized chronologically, structurally-chronologically, and by document type.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary