Abstract

The research featured special reports from the Tomsk Department of State Security about the “anti-Soviet” protest movement of Tomsk deportees in the first months after Joseph Stalin's death. The analysis revealed how the deportees adapted to the authority demands and imitated their loyalty to the system, even when the regime positions was clearly weakened. The author analyzed the sanctions imposed on the deportees and the behavior of the local punitive officials, who received no instructions from Moscow. Most likely, the “anti-Soviet” behavior was not so much a purposeful protest as an irrational reaction to such an extraordinary event as Joseph Stalin's death. The responsive actions of the Regional Department of State Security did not follow the new course of Soviet policy but rather the behavioral patterns formed during the Stalin era: violators were identified and punished severely and demonstratively.

Highlights

  • The analysis revealed how the deportees adapted to the authority demands and imitated their loyalty to the system, even when the regime positions was clearly weakened

  • The author analyzed the sanctions imposed on the deportees and the behavior of the local punitive officials, who received no instructions from Moscow

  • The responsive actions of the Regional Department of State Security did not follow the new course of Soviet policy but rather the behavioral patterns formed during the Stalin era: violators were identified and punished severely and demonstratively

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Ольга Вячеславовна Филиппенко

Исследование базируется на спецсообщениях Управления МГБ по Томской области, зафиксировавших различные формы «антисоветского» поведения депортантов. Куропаткин, проанализировав изменения советской пропаганды весны 1953 г., пришел к выводу, что уже в течение первых ста дней после смерти И. А. Козлов отметил, что сразу после смерти вождя власти по старой привычке провели репрессивную кампанию для поддержания общества в напряженном состоянии. Цель настоящей статьи была сформулирована следующим образом: выявить основные формы протестного поведения, характерные для спецпоселенцев в марте-апреле 1953 г., и сопоставить с последующими за ними наказаниями. На территории Томской области было расселено 56604 спецпоселенца3), данный источник представляется крайне ценным, поскольку показывает едва ли не первую реакцию депортантов на рассматриваемые события, что отличает его, например, от воспоминаний.

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