Metadata: Sălaj county committee of the Ploughmen’s Front
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Româna, Direcţia judeţeană Sălaj
- Postal address:
- Tudor Vladimirescu Str. No. 26A, Zalău 450067, judeţul Sălaj, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-260-611016
- Email:
- salaj@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond 430
- Title:
- Sălaj county committee of the Ploughmen’s Front
- Title (official language):
- Comitatul judeţean Sălaj al Frontului Plugarilor
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sălaj county committee of the Ploughmen’s Front
- Date(s):
- 1946/1950
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 23 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises four 1947 registers of the members of the organisation from Crasna, Şimleu and Nuşfalău districts, with name, residence, profession and nationality. There are also records of committee meetings and financial documents concerning subsidies the organisation received and expenses for its activity, especially during the campaign for the parliamentary elections of 1946. Some of the members were Jewish.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County, where it was inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ploughmen’s Front (Frontul Plugarilor) was founded in 1933 in Hunedoara County under the leadership of the lawyer and estate owner Dr Petru Groza and had links to the illegal communist party, proposing to protect the interests of the rural poor. After the Second World War, it became a close ally of the communist party in the National Democrat Front which, with the support of the Soviet authorities, tried to obtain political supremacy in competition with the traditional democrat parties. In March 1945, Petru Groza became the prime minister of a government dominated by this coalition, which won the 1946 parliamentary elections using tactics of intimidation and voter fraud. The Ploughmen’s Front operated until 1953, when was wound up, considering that it had fulfilled its mission with the installation of the communist regime.
- Subject terms:
- Communism
- Jewish political activity
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 576 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Sălaj County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Anton Dörner (retired researcher), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2017