The resistance against stalin repressions from upravlenie narodnogo komissariata vnutrennych del at 1930s in the soviet far east

Abstract

Period of 1930s. in the Russian history is one from most discussed in the Soviet history up to the present. Therefore Russian and foreign specialists conduct a large number of studies on this topic, process archive data in order to search for new information. Their attitude towards repression is not unambiguous. Despite the large number of publications on this topic, there are still some blank pages that are little affected by the researchers. The one of them is question on specifics of the resistance against repressions from punitive structure and party organization in the Far East of USSR. For a number of reasons, this issue was out of the scope of domestic and foreign scientists. The aim of this work is consideration of specifics of the resistance against repressions in the structures, which must support state policy – local administration of NKVD. The authors of this work analyzed several aspects of this process on the base of archival materials, publications by Russian and foreign scholars and materials of the oral history. The article also presents the author’s position on the most controversial problems of research.