Jewish Communist Youth Union Explained

Jewish Communist Youth Union
Native Name:	Еврейский коммунистический союз молодежи
Ideology:	Zionism Communism Labor Zionism

Jewish Communist Youth Union (Russian: Еврейский коммунистический союз молодежи, Evreĭskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soiuz molodezhi, abbreviated EKSM or Евкоммол, Evkommol) was the youth wing of the Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion) in Russia. The first All-Russian convention of the organization took place 23–27 January 1920 in Moscow. The All-Russian conference of the organization took place 1–4 September 1920 in Kharkov.

The organization published Evkommol ('Евкоммол').^[1]

Evkommol fiercely opposed the Yevsektsiya, the Jewish Section of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).^[2]

Notes and References

1. IDC Publishers. Opis΄ 2: Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion), 1919-1923; Jewish Labor Party of Socialists-Territorialists, 1917; United Jewish Socialist (from 1919, Communist) Labor Party, 1917-1920
2. Book: Zvi Y. Gitelman. Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930. 8 March 2015. Princeton University Press. 978-1-4008-6913-8. 216.