Metadata: Satu Mare county organisation of the Social-Democrat Party
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, 13, Satu Mare, 440010, jud. Satu Mare
- Phone number:
- 0261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 173
- Title:
- Satu Mare county organisation of the Social-Democrat Party
- Title (official language):
- Partidul Social Democrat Organizația Județeană Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Satu Mare county organisation of the Social-Democrat Party
- Date(s):
- 1945/1948
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 38 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises the files of the Satu Mare county organisation of the Social-Democrat Party from 1945 to 1948. It includes declarations of joining the party, lists of party members, instructions, circular letters and directives of the central party institutions, records of meetings of the party organisations, correspondence and records and decisions of the leadership of the county organisation. Among the party members and the local leadership are a considerable number of Jews.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the prefecture of Satu Mare county. It was transferred to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1996, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Social-Democrat Party was established in Satu Mare county in 1903 and functioned until 1938 when the royal dictatorship in Romania abolished all political parties. It was reorganised on 25 October 1944 and its first national congress took place in December 1945. The number of organisations in Satu Mare county was 18 in 1945, increasing to 80 by 1946. The number of party members also increased from 4,000 in 1945 to over 16,000 n 1946. The party issued publications in Romanian and Hungarian and developed intensive political activity in cooperation with the Communist Party in the framework of the Unitary Front of the Workers and the so-called Bloc of the Democratic Parties which won the parliamentary elections of 1946, albeit through evident fraud in collusion with the Soviet occupying forces. After the Communist regime was installed, the Social-Democrat Party was unified with the Communist Party in February 1948, resulting in the Romanian Workers' Party. It was renamed Romanian Communist Party in 1965 and abolished after the fall of Communism in 1989.
- Access points: locations:
- Satu Mare county
- Subject terms:
- Jewish political activity
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 236, held by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2017