Savin Andrey I.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
“Consider Absolutely Unallowable to Use Names of the Enemies of the People of the USSR”. Considering the “Purges” of the Libraries and Geographical Maps in the USSR During the Second Half of the 1930s
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-1-15
The article introduces into scientific circulation several, previously unknown to the researchers, documents, considering the matters of the purge of names of the “enemies of the people” – repressed representatives of the Soviet party and state elite – from the libraries books and toponymic landscape of the Soviet Union. First and foremost, these documents include the letters of the first Secretary of the Central Committee of VLKSM A.V. Kosarev, People’s Commissar for Justice N.V. Krylenko, order of the NKVD signed by the M.P. Frinovsky, relations of the department of State film and cartography of UNKVD in Novosibirsk region, and initiative letters of the citizens to power. The published documents are analyzed in wide historical context in introduction. They prove, that the Great Purge was a many sided phenomenon, changing radically almost all aspects of the soviet society, including the “places of memory‘. The purge of the libraries and toponymic landscape was the object of very close attention from the Stalin’s government, which, in turn, demanded the work of the multitude of the state bureaucracy’s institutions.
Publishing: 26/02/2019
How to cite: Savin A.I. “Consider Absolutely Unallowable to Use Names of the Enemies of the People of the USSR”. Considering the “Purges” of the Libraries and Geographical Maps in the USSR During the Second Half of the 1930s // Historical Courier, 2019, # 1 (3). Article 15. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-1-15.pdf
Links: Issue 1 2019
Keywords: libraries; purges; renaming; oppositions; repressions