Papkov Sergej A.,
Doctor 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.
“Сriminal Case” of Employees of the Novosibirsk Regional Museum (1935)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-1-3
Political exile in the USSR was an important tool for controlling the behavior of the intelligentsia and a way of restricting the rights of social groups hostile to the Soviet system. The article deals with an episode of liquidation of one of the “anti-soviet groups” seized by the NKVD bodies from the staff of the Novosibirsk Regional Museum. The author describes the process of collecting and using “compromising materials” for the arrest of employees of the museum and their associates; presents data on the previous career of intellectuals and their social origin. They were exiled scholars and artists, accused of spreading bourgeois ideology and fascist views. The article describes the course of the NKVD “investigation” and the procedure for sentencing; provides information about the fate of convicts after leaving the camps of the Gulag.
Publishing: 26/02/2019
How to cite: Papkov S.A. “Сriminal Case” of Employees of the Novosibirsk Regional Museum (1935) // Historical Courier, 2019, # 1 (3). Article 3. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-1-03.pdf
Links: Issue 1 2019
Keywords: political exile; intellectuals; museum; NKVD; arrests; court sentence; camp detention; rehabilitation