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Communist Bund of Ukraine
Founded1918
Split fromGeneral Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia
Merged intoUkrainian Communist Union, 'Komfarband'
IdeologyCommunism

The Communist Bund (Kombund) was a Jewish Communist political party in Ukraine and Bielorussia, formed after a split in the General Jewish Labour Bund (Bund). Moisei Rafes was the leader of the party. Rafes had been a leading figure in the Bund in Ukraine.[1]

At a meeting of the Bund branch in Kiev in February 1919, the majority voted for a motion tabled by Rafes whereby the Kiev branch declared itself the Kiev branch of the Jewish Communist Labour Bund. Rafes' motion obtained 135 votes, against 79 votes for a motion reaffirming the affiliation with international social democracy and the all-Russian Bund party and 27 abstension. At the end of the vote, the Kiev Bund branch had split into two separate party organizations.[2] Around the same time a similar split occured in the Ekaterinoslav branch of the Bund (with 130 votes to become part a Kombund, against 108 votes against).[2] The Poltava branch of the Bund voted, almost unanimously, to become part of a Kombund.[2] In Kharkov two separate meetings were held, at the latter a majority voted to become a Kombund.[2]

The Kombund supported Jewish national autonomy.[1][3][4] The Kombund supported the Soviet side in the Russian Civil War.[5][6] The Communist Bund had only fifteen members aged 35 years and above.[7]

At the Third Conference of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine, held in March 1919, voted to refuse theKombund 'group entry' into the party (101 voted to refuse the Kombund to merge with the party, 96 votes in favour of a merger).[2] Whilst the CP(b)U recognized the need to collaborate with the Ukrainian Kombund, they refused to recognize the Kombund as a communist party. CP(b)U held that the Kombund was a middle class movement and its members were not given responsibilities in different Soviets.[8] At the local level, the relationship between the Communist Party and the Kombund was often hostile.[2]

In May 1919 Kombund and the United Jewish Communist Party merged, forming the Ukrainian Communist Union, 'Komfarband'.[1][3][6][9]

References

  1. ^ a b c Levin, Nora (1990). The Jews in the Soviet Union Since 1917: Paradox of Survival. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-5051-3. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Zvi Gitelman (8 March 2015). Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930. Princeton University Press. p. 174-176. ISBN 978-1-4008-6913-8.
  3. ^ a b Ben-Sasson, Haim Hillel. A History of the Jewish People. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976. p. 966
  4. ^ Pinkus, Benjamin. Jews of the Soviet Union: A History of a National Minority. [S.l.]: Cambridge, 1990. p. 128
  5. ^ Wood, Elizabeth A. Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. p. 261
  6. ^ a b Ben-Śaśon, Ḥayim Hilel, and Michael Brenner. Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes: von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. München: Beck, 2007. p. 1186
  7. ^ Zvi Gitelman (8 March 2015). Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930. Princeton University Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-4008-6913-8.
  8. ^ Baruch Gurevitz (15 September 1980). National Communism in the Soviet Union, 1918-28. University of Pittsburgh Pre. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-8229-7736-0.
  9. ^ Gilboa, Jehoshua A. A Language Silenced: The Suppression of Hebrew Literature and Culture in the Soviet Union. Rutherford [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1982. p. 282
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