Zhanbosinova Albina S.,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of History of Kazakhstan, S. Amanzholov East-Kazakhstan State University, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Republic of Kazakhstan, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Potapova Natalia A.,
Independent Researcher, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Scale and Regional Features of “National” Operations in the Kazakh SSR
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-1-9
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the “national” operations of 1937–1938 in the Kazakh SSR. The “linear” actions of the Great Terror took second place in the statistics of the NKVD, after the “kulak” repressive action realized on the basis of the order of the NKVD of the USSR No 00447 dated July 30, 1937. Protocols of extrajudicial instances of the Kazakh SSR and departmental documentation of the NKVD allowed identifying ten punitive actions held in the republic. They included the “Polish”, “German”, “Harbin”, “Estonian”, “Finnish”, “Greek”, “Mixed”, “Latvian”, “Iranian” and “Romanian” operations. About 70 % of the repressed were victims of the “Harbin”, “Polish” and “German” operations. In terms of the number of victims of prosecution, those prosecuted by the order No 00593 took the first place in the series of “national” punitive actions in the Kazakh SSR.
Publishing: 26/02/2019
How to cite: Zhanbosinova A.S., Potapova N.A. Scale and Regional Features of “National” Operations in the Kazakh SSR // Historical Courier, 2019, # 1 (3). Article 9. [Available online:] http://http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-1-09.pdf
Links: Issue 1 2019
Keywords: Great Terror; Kazakh SSR, “national” operations; “album” order of conviction; Commission of the NKVD and the Prosecutor of the USSR; Special troika