Abstract
The article deals with the issue of the scale of repression in the central military and naval intelligence agencies of the People's Commissariat of Defense (hereinafter - NCO) and the People's Commissariat of the Navy of the USSR (hereinafter - NKVMF). The relevance of the study is due to the need to establish the exact number of repressed intelligence officers of both People's commissariats; the need to substantiate the accusations often made by domestic and foreign historians against the leadership of the USSR in the repression of the "best representatives" of military intelligence; establishing the degree of influence of repression on the effectiveness of the work of intelligence agencies. Until now, the study of repression in the Armed Forces of the USSR has been limited only to general work, the study of repression in individual military districts (for example, the Trans–Baikal Military District), in the types and branches of the armed forces (Navy, cavalry), as well as in individual formations and military schools. The novelty of this study lies in the fact that until now the issue of repression and its consequences in the central intelligence agencies of the Red Army and the Red Army has not been studied. In their work, the authors used the method of historiographical analysis. Taking into account the peculiarities and difficulties in access to hitherto closed materials on military intelligence personnel, the main source base of the study was the so-called "Memory Books" of all those shot in Moscow in the 1919-1940s, prospects for further search work on this topic are outlined.
Highlights
В статье рассматривается вопрос о масштабах репрессий в центральных органах военной и военно-морской разведки Народного комиссариата обороны и Народного комиссариата Военно-морского флота СССР
The article deals with the issue of the scale of repression in the central military and naval intelligence agencies of the People's Commissariat of Defense and the People's Commissariat of the Navy of the USSR
The relevance of the study is due to the need to establish the exact number of repressed intelligence officers of both People's commissariats; the need to substantiate the accusations often made by domestic and foreign historians against the leadership of the USSR in the repression of the "best representatives" of military intelligence; establishing the degree of influence of repression on the effectiveness of the work of intelligence agencies
Summary
В статье рассматривается вопрос о масштабах репрессий в центральных органах военной и военно-морской разведки Народного комиссариата обороны (далее – НКО) и Народного комиссариата Военно-морского флота СССР (далее – НКВМФ). Изучению темы репрессий в РККА, РККФ, НКВД и НКГБ, а также установлению количества репрессированных военнослужащих за период 1930-1940 гг. Что репрессии кардинально не повлияли на боеспособность Красной Армии [15; 40], так как и до репрессий РККА находилась «не на высоте». Другие – снижают количество репрессированных военнослужащих вдвое: 48 773 чел.
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