The Special Troika of the OGPU's Plenipotentiary in the Siberian Region in 1930
A.G Teplyakov
Keywords: Siberia, the peasantry, Zakovskiy, Plenipotentiary of OGPU, troika, repressions
Pages: 87-92
Abstract
The article deals with activities of a punitive agency — the Special troika in the Siberian OGPU Plenipoteniary, headed by a prominent chekist L.M. Zakovskiy and founded in February 1930 with the purpose of organizing a mass terror in villages swept by the broad anti-government protests. The paper analyzes the personal staff of the Special troika, stages of the repressive and punitive activities as well as statistics indicating that in the first months of 1930 troika acted with cruelty, similar to the period of1937–1938.
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