- Pomgol
Pomgol _ru. Помгол was the name of two organizations created in the
Russian SFSR during theRussian famine of 1921 . The name is an abbreviation of the Russian term "Помощь голодающим" or "Relief for Starving".Pomgol All-Russian Public Committee
The first Pomgol was created by
Patriarch Tikhon , named civic All-Union Public Committee for the Relief of Starving (Pomgol Public Committee, Всероссийский общественный комитет помощи голодающим) It included notable Russian people: scientists, artists, church leaders, public activists, many of which were of non-Bolshevik persuasion. Tikhon appealed to the international religious community and soon some aid began to arrive. The Soviet government disliked this course of affairs, and Tikhon's Pomgol was disbanded onAugust 27 ,1921 . Instead, governmental Pomgol was established. [Цыпин. В. Учебник для православных духовных семинарий. Московская Патриархия. Издательский дом «Хроника». 1994, глава III, [http://www.sedmitza.ru/index.html?sid=736&did=37905&p_comment=history excerpt] ru icon]Pomgol Central Commission of VTsIK
The Pomgol Central Commission (Центральная комиссия помощи голодающим при ВЦИК) established by the Soviet government (
VTsIK ) existed during July 1921 — October 1922. It was headed byMikhail Kalinin ,chairman of VTsIK . It coordinated all related to the famine relief. To this end it established the Pomgol Commissions at all administrative levels of the Soviet state.Pomgol Commission and famine
Among the activities of pomgol was the first Soviet statewide
lottery with all proceeds directed for famine relief. [ [http://www.bonistikaweb.ru/SOVKOL/terebov3.htm Лотерейные билеты СССР и РСФСР центральных выпусков] , Советский коллекционер, 1989(27), С.168-193 ru icon]Pomgol took an active part in requisition of
Russian Orthodox Church valuables. [А.Левитин–Краснов, В.Шавров ОЧЕРКИ ПО ИСТОРИИ РУССКОЙ ЦЕРКОВНОЙ СМУТЫ, [http://pharisai.by.ru/librar/smutapp2.htm Appendix 2 for Vol. 1] ]In mid-1922 the Soviet Union declared that the immediate danger of the famine is over and replaced the policy of "struggle against the famine" with the "struggle against the consequences of the famine" [Charles M. Edmondson, "An Inquiry into the Termination of Soviet Famine Relief Programmes and the Renewal of Grain Export, 1922-23", Soviet Studies, Vol. 33, No. 3 (1981), pp. 370-385] and Pomgol CC was replaced by the
Posledgol Central Commission of VTsIK.References
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