Dmitry Igorevich Petin,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Omsk State Technical University, Omsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dismissal of Ex-Officers during the Purges of Soviet Institutions 1928–1929 (On the Example of the District Financial Departments of Siberia)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-1-7
In the current quarter of a century, Russian scientists in their writings increasingly began to turn to understanding the various socio-political consequences of the Civil War that took place in early Soviet society. The key figures in those socio-political processes of the 1920s often became representatives of the officers, who were part of the intellectual elite of society due to the rather high educational qualification by the standards of the time. The demand for representatives of this category of society in the USSR, as in specialists, was sometimes extremely high. At the same time, already in the 1920s ex-officers (regardless of their ideological views) have fully experienced numerous political harassment. A vivid example of this was the sphere of labor relations and the closely related issue of personnel purges. In this regard, this article, using the regional example of the district financial departments of Siberia, analyzes a very contradictory situation that took place in connection with the dismissals of ex-officers in the period from the autumn of 1928 to the summer of 1929. Based on familiarization with the developments of historiography, this aspect fell out of the field the point of view of historians. The study is based on a complex of unpublished sources from the funds of the State Archive of the Novosibirsk Region. The article is addressed to a wide range of specialists studying the early Soviet society, in particular, the practice of social adaptation (including the position of former officers), the organization of intellectual labor (on the example of financial authorities), Soviet repressive policies (including personnel purges), and also Siberian local history.
Publishing: 28/02/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 01.10.2022
How to cite: Petin D.I. Dismissal of Ex-Officers during the Purges of Soviet Institutions 1928–1929 (On the Example of the District Financial Departments of Siberia) // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 1 (27), pp. 90–104. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-1-07.pdf]
The study has been prepared with the support of the Russian Science Foundation, the project 22-28-20144 “White Officers in Soviet Omsk: Social Portrait and Adaptation Problem (November 1919–1927)”.
Links: Issue 1 2023
Keywords: officers; former people; Soviet society; personnel purges; Stalinism; financial officials; financial authorities