Regional dimension of history of organs of GPU-OGPU: to the analysis of monograph by A. B. Gularyan and A. Yu. Sarana
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2023-8-1-83-89
Abstract
The article characterizes the monograph of the Oryol researchers A. B. Gularyan and A. Yu. Saran, specialists in the history of domestic special services. The publication provides a comprehensive study of the structure, main directions and regional features of the activities of the GPU-OGPU bodies in the Omsk Irtysh region and the Oryol Pooch region in 1922–1934. The article analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the monograph. It is emphasized that it contributes to the study of the political, social and everyday history of the early Soviet society. As a merit of the authors, an innovative approach to the study and comparison of the activities of the regional structures of the Soviet special services in different regions that are significantly distant from each other is noted. It is concluded that Russian historians should support and continue such an undertaking, expanding its scope geographically and chronologically. This, in general, will allow us to look at the history of state security agencies from a new angle and significantly complement scientific knowledge about their past.
Keywords
historiography,
regional history,
special services,
state security agencies,
GPU,
OGPU,
Soviet society,
local history,
Orel,
Omsk,
review
Supporting agencies: The article is prepared with the support of the RSF project, 22-28-20144 «White officers in Soviet Omsk: social portrait and the problem of adaptation (November 1919–1927)», implemented at the Omsk State Technical University.
About the Author
A. V. Sushko
Омский государственный технический университет
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
SUSHKO Aleksey Vladimirovich, Doctor of Historical
Sciences, Professor of History, Philosophy and Social
Communications Departmen; Professor of Military-Apolitical Work in the Troops (Forces) Department
AuthorID (RSCI): 446621;
AuthorID (SCOPUS): 57201470030
Omsk
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Sushko A.V. Regional dimension of history of organs of GPU-OGPU: to the analysis of monograph by A. B. Gularyan and A. Yu. Sarana. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2023;8(1):83-89. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2023-8-1-83-89
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