silska rada

plural silski rady · alternative silʹsʹka rada

1. rareSynonym of silrada

   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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   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.

   2007 April, 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

   With regard to administrative structure, the Soviet regime beginning in 1924 set up nationality districts (raiony), town soviets (selyshchni rady), and village soviets (silʹsʹki rady) to serve the interests of national minorities who formed the majority of the population in a given locale.

   Paul Robert Magocsi

   2007 October, Па́вел Ро́берт Ма́ґочій [Paul Robert Magocsi], “Soviet Ukraine’s Other Peoples” (chapter 37, pages 229–238), in Ukraine: An Illustrated History, Seattle: printed by the University of Toronto Press Incorporated for the University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 232

   Soviet Ukraine was the first Soviet republic to implement this reform. This was launched on August 29 1924, by the Council of People’s Commissars’ (or Radnarkom’s) decree “On the formation of national districts and soviets”, which resulted in the creation of an intricate system of village soviets (silski rady, or silrady) throughout Ukraine, the boundaries between which were determined by the ethnic composition of those communities.

   Olena Palko

   2023 July, Оле́на Па́влівна Палько́ [Olena Palko], Рома́н Микола́йович Ко́ршук [Roman Korshuk], “Constructing Ethnic Identities in Early Soviet Ukraine” (chapter 16, pages 175–190), in Оле́на Па́влівна Палько́ [Olena Palko], Manuel Férez Gil, editors, Ukraine’s Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited (New Europes; volume I), Bielefeld: [transcript], →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2024, The Soviet Minorities Experiment, page 176

   Synonyms: silrada