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Kyiv’s Bloody October: Archival
Documents of the 1905 Pogroms
Archival documents contain a vast amount of primary source information about the tragic events
of October 1905 in Kyiv.
After many months of uprisings and strikes of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Tsar Nicholas II
was persuaded to issue the October Manifesto, which granted freedom of conscience, speech,
press, assembly and association.
After the Manifesto was published, pogroms organized by
the Black Hundred erupted in Gomel, Odessa, Saratov and
many other places. The Black Hundred, an anti-Semitic,
ultra-nationalist movement that supported the autocracy of
the reigning monarch, believed that the Jewish people, in
particular, strongly supported the Manifesto. The pogrom in
Kyiv on October 18-21, 1905, stands apart from others
because of its scale and tragic results.
This collection of records has compiled from three groups
of documents (fonds):
Fond 1522: Judicial Investigator of Critical Cases of the
Kiev District Court 1905-906 (67 files (delo), 4,173
pages)
One opis arranged chronologically consists of files related
to the investigations of civilians and police officers (district
inspectors, constables, operatives, etc.) accused of
involvement in the pogroms in Kyiv and neighboring villages
(Demievka, Solomenka, Pushcha-Voditsa) in October 1905.
The files contain the interrogations of eyewitnesses, victims
and the accused; investigators’ detailed reports given to the
public prosecutor of the Kyiv Okrug Court
Language: Russian
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Kyiv’s Bloody October: Archival Documents of the 1905 Pogroms
Fond 684: Kiev District Court 1872-1919
(Groups of documents (opis) 6 and 858 files (delo), 2,907
pages)
The fond contains, among other documents, eyewitness
accounts; applications from victims with detailed descriptions of
damages and the names of perpetrators; information about
those accused of disruptive behavior, summons issued to them
and records of their interrogations; files with preliminary
investigation documents from various investigation districts of
Kyiv; lists of the accused, witnesses and civil claimants; a
statistical summary of cases related to the Kyiv pogrom;
documents on anti-Jewish disturbances in the village of
Demievka and investigation materials related to pogroms in
Belaya Tserkov and Chigirin.
Language: Russian.
Fond 442: Committee for Aiding Victims of the Pogrom of
October 18-21, 1905, for the years 1905-1912
(Group of documents (opis) 1. files (delo) 65, 3,260 pages)
The Committee was established to remedy the repercussions
of the bloody and destructive pogrom in Kyiv following rallies
carried out by leftist radicals in response to the Tsarist
Manifesto of October 17. Immediately after the pogrom, Jewish
benefactors collected money for victims and their families.
Languages: Russian, English, Yiddish, German and
French.
This collection complements East View’s collection Pogroms in
Ukraine, 1918-1921. Documents of Kiev District Commission
for Relief to Victims of Pogroms which contains previously
classified original source documents pertaining to internal relief
efforts to victims of pogroms.
Contact your East View account manager at [email protected] to get listings of documents
(opis’) in this collection.
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silver halide 35 mm microfilm
Russian, English, Yiddish, German, French, Ukrainian
20 reels
2050000CM
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