All Topics  
Yevsektsiya

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Yevsektsiya
 
 
  Topics Yevsektsiya Topic Home

Yevsektsiya (alternative spelling: Yevsektsia), Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
: ????????, the abbreviation of the phrase "????????? ??????" (Yevreyskaya sektsiya) was the Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish section of the Soviet Communist party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest Communist Party in the world....
. Yevsektsiya was established to popularize Marxism
Marxism

Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism holds at its core a Marxist analysis of Critique of capitalism and a theory of social change....
 and encourage loyalty to the Soviet regime among Russian Jews. The founding conference of Yevsektsiya took place on October 20, 1918. For most of its existence, the Yevsektsya was headed by Semyon Dimanstein
Semyon Dimanstein

Semyon DimansteinDimanstein was born in Sebezh, Pskov oblast in a Jewish family of a trader. He studied in a Chabad yeshiva where eighteen-year Semyon ordained his rabbinate....
.

Yevsektsiya was entirely subordinate to leadership of the Soviet Communist party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest Communist Party in the world....
.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Yevsektsiya'
Start a new discussion about 'Yevsektsiya'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Yevsektsiya (alternative spelling: Yevsektsia), Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
: ????????, the abbreviation of the phrase "????????? ??????" (Yevreyskaya sektsiya) was the Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish section of the Soviet Communist party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest Communist Party in the world....
. Yevsektsiya was established to popularize Marxism
Marxism

Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism holds at its core a Marxist analysis of Critique of capitalism and a theory of social change....
 and encourage loyalty to the Soviet regime among Russian Jews. The founding conference of Yevsektsiya took place on October 20, 1918. For most of its existence, the Yevsektsya was headed by Semyon Dimanstein
Semyon Dimanstein

Semyon DimansteinDimanstein was born in Sebezh, Pskov oblast in a Jewish family of a trader. He studied in a Chabad yeshiva where eighteen-year Semyon ordained his rabbinate....
.

Yevsektsiya was entirely subordinate to leadership of the Soviet Communist party
Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest Communist Party in the world....
. Yevsektsiya members were people of Jewish origin, however, they were hostile to traditional Jewish culture and instead sought to assimilate
Cultural assimilation

Cultural assimilation is when an individual or individuals adopts some or all aspects of a dominant culture . Cultural assimilation is a process of socialization....
 Jews into the new Soviet society. In line with official Soviet doctrine, Yevsektsiya was deeply opposed to "Jewish cultural particularism" and Zionism
Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
, labelling it a form of "bourgeois nationalism
Bourgeois nationalism

Bourgeois nationalism is a term from Marxist phraseology. It refers to the practice of dividing people by nationality, Race , ethnicity, or religion, which were alleged to deflect them from class warfare....
".

The Yevsektsia was disbanded in 1929. Many of its members perished in the Great Purge
Great Purge

Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in 1936-1938. Also described as a "Soviet holocaust" by several authors, it involved the purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, repression of kulaks, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliat...
. Dimanstein was arrested and received death sentence
Death Sentence

"Death Sentence" is a short story by the American science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1943 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov....
 in 1938 and was executed. He was rehabilitated
Rehabilitation (Soviet)

Rehabilitation in the context of the former Soviet Union, and the Post-Soviet states, was the restoration of a person who was criminally prosecuted without due basis, to the state of acquittal or being "not guilty"....
 posthumously in 1955, 2 years after the death of Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
.

See also

  • History of the Jews in Russia and Soviet Union
  • Communist Party of the Soviet Union
    Communist Party of the Soviet Union

    The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest Communist Party in the world....
  • Bolshevik
    Bolshevik

    Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
  • Birobidzhan
    Birobidzhan

    Birobidzhan is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the border with the People's Republic of China, and is the home of two synagogues, including the Birobidzhan Synagogue, and the Jewish religious community of the...
  • Komzet
    Komzet

    Komzet was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land in the Soviet Union. The primary goal of the Komzet was to help impoverished and persecuted Jewish population of the former Pale of Settlement to adopt agricultural labor....
  • Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion)
    Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion)

    Jewish Communist Party was a political party in Russia 1919-1922. The party was formed at a conference of communist dissident fractions of the Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party , held in Gomel August 10-15, 1919....


External links

  • , at exhibition