Alexey Pavlovich Kilin,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Death of Vladimir I. Lenin in the Assessments of Contemporaries: on the Materials of Information Reports of the District Departments of the OGPU in the Urals
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-6-1
Death of Vladimir I. Lenin is considered in the context of the transition to a peaceful stage of development of early Soviet society. This event was used for propaganda purposes, allowed to consolidate the divided society and ensure the transfer of power in the party leadership. The attitude to the death of the country’s leader, whose cult began to form during his lifetime, is a significant political marker for every citizen. Public opinion in general and the assessment of individual citizens were the object of attention of the political police, since they allowed ’friend-or-foe’ identification of a citizen. Information reports of the OGPU allow not only to analyse public opinion, but also to identify the most acute problems of this period of national history.
Publishing: 28/12/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 17/05/2022
How to cite: Kilin A.P. Death of Vladimir I. Lenin in the Assessments of Contemporaries: on the Materials of Information Reports of the District Departments of the OGPU in the Urals // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 6 (26), pp. 9–28. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-6-01.pdf]
Links: Issue 6 2022
Keywords: early Soviet society; Vladimir I. Lenin; death; OGPU; Ural region; information reports; loyalty; commemoration; social stratification; public opinion; propaganda