silrada

plural silrady · alternative silʹrada

1. A місце́ва ра́да (mistseva rada) centred in a village (село́) or, historically, a rural-type settlement (се́лище [сільсько́го ти́пу]); a Ukrainian selsoviet.

   silʹrada (Russian selʹsovet) — short for silʹsʹka rada (selʹskii sovet), village soviet or council.

   [1988, Commission on the Ukraine Famine, “Glossary of Terms” (pages 229–232), in Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932–1933: Report to Congress, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, s.v. silʹrada, page 231

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   Further changes were made during the 1920s, and in 1932 the territorial-administrative system underwent a major change. The units of the new, three-tiered system that were introduced — the oblast (province), raion (county), and the silska rada or silrada — the name not only of a rural district, but also of the elected council that administers it and of its administration building. These three units are still in use today.

   2007, John D. Pihach, “Locating the Ancestral Home” (chapter 7, pages 83–123), in Ukrainian Genealogy: A Beginner’s Guide (paperback), Edmonton · Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, →ISBN, Administrative Divisions (pages 88–96), Soviet Ukraine (pages 95–96), page 95

   1. A Ukrainian collegial body charged with the administration of one or more rural inhabited localities and its or their associated territory; a Ukrainian rural council.

      In the morning they received permission from the ‘Silʹrada’ (The Village Council) and were ready to transfer the body to their cemetery.

      Athanasius Basil Pekar, OSBM

      1985, Атана́сій Васи́ль Пе́кар, ЧСВВ [Athanasius Basil Pekar, OSBM], “Peter Oros — Our Martyred Priest (1917–1953)” (chapter xii, pages 67–70), in “You Shall Be Witnesses Unto Me”: Contribution to the Martyrology of the Byzantine Catholic Church in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, Pittsburgh: Byzantine Seminary Press, page 69

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      That evening the head of the Community (Silrada) came to us and advised us to stop further work and either enter the army on the spot or quickly return to Kiev.

      Petro Kolymsky

      1956 December, Петро́ Коли́мський [pseudonym, Petro Kolymsky], “The Kolyma Prisoner After His Release” (pages 350–359), in The Ukrainian Quarterly, volume XII, number 4, New York: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, page 357

      Кожного дня визивали в сільраду. — Чого не йдеш у колгосп? Ну, мовляв, так і так … не хочу, чи як там. І кожного дня визивали і обов’язково приймали заяву. Без заяви не приймали. Писали люди заяви і потім назад у колгосп. А це в 1931-му році. В 1931-му році дійшла колективізація приблизно до 59%. А в 1932-му році уже 70% стало. Забрали всіх, хто повтікав, хто куди-що.

      Fedir Pavlovych Kapusta

      Фе́дір Па́влович Капу́ста [Fedir Pavlovych Kapusta] (1990), “Fedir Kapusta, b. 1900, Horby, Kremlianchiv, Poltava” (Case History LH08, pages 74–88), in James Earnest Mace, Leonid Heretz, editors, Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932–1933: Oral History Project of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine, volume one, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, page 77

      Co do pana B. — wydawał się człowiekiem rezolutnym, odważnym, przedsiębiorczym, niezamożnym, oszczędnym, a chociaż Ukrainiec, nie wykazał negatywnego ustosunkowania się do kwestii żydowskiej, tym bardziej że brat jego był głową „silrady” [rady wiejskiej] za Sowietów, za co go z żoną ukraińska miejscowa Sicz zamordowała.

      My testament

      Baruch Milch (1943–1944), Mój testament [My testament] (pages 3–52), in Zbigniew Grzegorz Gluza, editor, Karta, № 2, Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza „Volumen”, published February 1991, page 38

      Predominantly male Bolshevik heads of collective farms (kolhospy) and the village councils (silrady) believed in their superior status over women, perceptions that were rooted in the historically patriarchal traditions of Tsarist Russia.

      Olga Bertelsen

      2018, О́льга Ро́бертівна Бертельсен [Olga Bertelsen], “‘Hyphenated’ Identities during the Holodomor: Women and Cannibalism” (chapter 4, pages 77–96), in Elissa Bemporad, Joyce Violet Williams Warren, editors, Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →JSTOR, page 81

   2. The municipal building in which a Ukrainian rural council holds its meetings and conducts its business; a Ukrainian village hall.

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      The author’s task in the second play “Come to Dzvonkove” is to show the post-war reconstruction. He, however, shows only the magnificent plans of this. The authorities of the village Dzvonkove plan to build a general hospital, drugstore, radio broadcasting station, library, school of agronomy, club, bakery, store and a “silrada” (city hall) with a colonnade, such as “his eminence Count Gursky one^([sic]) had”.

      Bohdan Romanenchuk

      1950 Summer, Богда́н Романенчу́к [Bohdan Romanenchuk], “Ten Years of Soviet Literature in Ukraine” (pages 246–252), in The Ukrainian Quarterly, volume VI, number 3, New York: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, page 249

      "Dekulakization happened like this: They came and all went to the silʹrada, where there was some kind of meeting, to which the people all went and were told to sign up for the kolhosp. Well, some did sign up, because there was no way out, because they had the power to force people, and they forced them. Well, some didn't want to, and…were taken by force and either sent to Siberia, to labor camps, or they fled…to the Donbas to work in the mines."

      1990, James Earnest Mace, Leonid Heretz, “Anonymous male, b. 1924, Strokova, Pereiaslav, Kiev” (Case History SW20, pages 823–827), in Investigation of the Ukrainian Famine, 1932–1933: Oral History Project of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine, volume two, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, page 823

      “Hurry up, you smart-ass! You’re holding up our game!” growled Vania. “And don’t bring the blizzard inside. Wipe your boots with that fancy birch broom. It cost me two cigarettes. Ha ha ha!” The brazen greeting seemed to cheer Andrij as he went through the heavy door of the silrada. He tried to manufacture a smile in spite of his cold face as he brushed the snow off his boots.

      Vladimir A. Bohdan

      1992, Володи́мир Андрі́йович Бо́гдан [Vladimir A. Bohdan], “Playing Cards” (chapter 2, pages 7–13), in Avoiding Extinction: Children of the Kulak, New York: Vantage Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 7–8

   3. historical outside the CrimeaThe administrative–territorial unit headed by such a Ukrainian rural council.

      Zynoviy Mykhaylovych Krasivskyi was born in Morshyn, Lviv oblast, in 1930. […] His present address is: Lvivska oblast, Stryyskyi r-n, Strilkivska silrada, s. Berezhytsya, Berezhnivska psychlikarnya, Zinoviy Mykhaylovych Krasivskyi.

      Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine · Studium Research Institute

      1979, Українська Центральна Інформаційна Служба [Ukrainian Central Information Service], compiler, Українські політичні в’язні в Совєтському Союзі біографічна ліста [Ukrainian Political Prisoners in the Soviet Union: A Biographical List] (Political Affairs Series; № 29), Торонто [Toronto]: Ліґа Визволення України · Дослідний Інститут Студіюм [Canadian League for the Liberation of Ukraine · Studium Research Institute], page 54

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      All that is written here by Dmytro Solovey about what took place in 1929 through 1933 in the Fediyiv Silrada, Reshetilivski District, Poltavschyna (about collectivization, arrests, expropriation and the horrors of the famine) has been written as dictated by me, and is completely in accord with what took place.

      Stephen Shumeyko

      1953, Степа́н Миха́йлович Шуме́йко [Stephen Shumeyko], The Golgotha of Ukraine: Eye-witness Accounts of the Famine in Ukraine Instigated and Fostered by the Kremlin in an Attempt to Quell Ukrainian Resistance to Soviet Russian National and Social Enslavement of the Ukrainian People, New York: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, affidavit of Ivan Klymko, page 36

      Although the figures for 1926 refer to different administrative areas (okruhy, raiony and silrady, and in the Western Ukraine — povity, zbirni hromady, hromady) the fact that these are comparatively small units has made it possible to relate 1926 figures to the present administrative areas.

      V. Kubiyovych

      1959, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Кубійо́вич [V. Kubiyovych], “Changes in the Population of the Ukrainian SSR (1927–1958)” (article 2, pages 6–20), in Ukrainian Review, № 8, Munich: Institute for the Study of the USSR, page 6

      The 1959 census provides figures only for the oblasts of the Ukrainian SSR (the population census of 1926 provided an analysis by nationality of the raions, the cities, the towns, and even the silʹradas); insofar as the rest of the Soviet Union is concerned, the 1959 census provides figures only for the constituent republics.

      Volodymyr Kubijovyč

      1963, Shevchenko Scientific Society, edited by Володи́мир Миха́йлович Кубійо́вич [Volodymyr Kubijovyč], Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, volume I, Toronto: published for The Ukrainian National Association by the University of Toronto Press, § III. Population (pages 156–267), 6. ethnic composition of the population (pages 208–251), Sources (pages 208–214), page 208/1

      The Ukrainian SSR is divided into 25 administrative oblasts. Each oblast is in turn subdivided into raions. There are two types of raions: urban, found in large cities, and rural, which consist of a number of silʹradas (village councils) with the seat located in a small town or a large village. As of July 1, 1967, there were 475 raions and 8,550 silʹradas in the Ukrainian SSR.

      Volodymyr Kubijovyč

      1971, Shevchenko Scientific Society, edited by Володи́мир Миха́йлович Кубійо́вич [Volodymyr Kubijovyč], Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia, volume II, Toronto: published for The Ukrainian National Association by the University of Toronto Press, § I. The Law (pages 3–119), 9. law and government of the Ukrainian SSR (pages 77–119), System of Government (pages 77–94), page 91/2

      The setting of my account is the Novo-Shevchenkivska Silrada (New-Shevchenko Rural Council), which encompassed several small villages: Blahodatne, Novi Obytoky, Utishne, Novo-Shevchenkivske (and possibly one more), as well as several individual farmsteads.

      Yar Slavutych, pseud. Григо́рій Миха́йлович Жуче́нко (Hryhorii Mykhailovych Zhuchenko)

      1983 Summer, Яр Славу́тич [Yar Slavutych, pseud. Григо́рій Миха́йлович Жуче́нко (Hryhorii Mykhailovych Zhuchenko)], “The Famine of 1932–1933 As It Affected One Rural Council (A Recollection)” (pages 179–188), in The Ukrainian Quarterly, volume XXXIX, number 2, New York: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, page 179