The State Archives of Public Organizations of Gomel Region released a book Gomel Region in 1943-1953: Documents and Materials
The State Archives of Public Organizations of Gomel Region has published a collection of documents, Gomel Region in 1943-1953: Documents and Materials.
The book contains 134 documents: 82 from the State Archives of Public Organizations of Gomel Region, 27 from the State Archives of Gomel Region, and 25 from the Local State Archives in Mozyr.
Most of the documents have been published for the first time. During the selection process, the priority was given to the original exemplars and, if unavailable, to their authorized copies.
The book includes resolutions of the higher organs of power (the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and the BSSR), proceedings of the bureau sessions and resolutions of the CP(b)B regional, municipal and district committees, decisions of the local authorities (executive committees of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies and their structural divisions), memoranda, reports and information of the Party and Soviet government bodies and other institutions, the statistic documentation. These documents reflect the policy of the Communist Party and the Government and do not claim to give a full and objective picture of historical reality.
The book is well illustrated. The photos include portraits of the leading figures of Gomel region in 1943-1953, pictures of the town of Gomel made in the period after the war, and episodes of the daily life of the town and the village and of the production and cultural activities. The book also includes photocopies of singular pages from the newspaper “Gomelskaya Pravda” and photos available from the Gomel Palace and Park Complex Historical-Cultural Institution.
The selected documents provide a comprehensive idea about the political, economic, social and cultural processes taking place in Gomel and Polesye regions in the first decade after the Nazi occupation. These will be of interest for specialists in the field, as well as for anyone interested in the Soviet history of Gomel Region.