Komfarband of Bielorussia and Lithuania
The Communist Union of Bielorussia and Lithuania (
Yiddish: אידישער קאָמוניסטישער פארטיי אין ווײַסרוסלאנד) on January 19, 1919. The Jewish Communist Party of Bielorussia functioned as an autonomous unit of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Bielorussia.[1]
In the wake of the
Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) (RCP(b)) opposed the notion of an independent Jewish communist movement, preferring territorial communist organizations. The Bund, on the other hand, demanded to retain an autonomous organization, the same demand it had put forth at the time of its entry into the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
.
In
proletarians, due to their 'specific conditions', ought to have a Communist Party of its own albeit in union with the RCP(b).[2] On January 15, 1919, the CP(b)B approved of the merger between Kombund and the CP(b)B Jewish Section. Four days later, the Jewish Communist Party of Bielorussia was founded with representatives from both parties forming the Central Committee.[3]
Some 2,000 Bundists joined the new party.Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic) and a new Komfarband Central Committee was elected.[3] Two-thirds of the delegates were former Bundists.[5] Der shtern was the organ of Komfarband.[6]
The RCP(b) did not approve of the Komfarband, and instructed the CP(b)B to eliminate it. On June 26, 1919, the CP(b)B Central Committee issued a memorandum announcing the dissolution of Komfarband.[3]
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