Yevsektsiya

A Yevsektsiya (Russian: евсекция, a syllabic abbreviation for "Jewish Section" (Russian: Еврейская секция). ; Yiddish: יעווסעקציע) was the ethnically Jewish section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and its main institutions; it is also sometimes described as the Yiddish-language branch of the CPSU. The section was established in fall of 1918 with the consent of Vladimir Lenin to carry Party ideology and Marxist-Leninist atheism to the Soviet Jewish masses. The Yevsektsiya published a Yiddish periodical, Der Emes.