Smolensk under Soviet Rule

Abstract

Part 1 The background: the nature and significance of the Smolensk archive Smolensk - land, people and history. Part 2 The pattern of controls: the Smolensk Party organization - a history of growth and crisis party organization and controls at the Oblast level governmental organization and problems of the Oblast the role of the Raion in the Soviet control system Belyi - a case study of the Raion Party organization control at the grass roots - the outposts of authority in the villages the organs of state security the machinery of justice - the procuracy and the courts. Part 3 The impact of authority: crime in Smolensk - out of the police records purges and people the story of collectivization life on the kolkhozes - some extracts from reports the MTS - spearhead of control the state farms - problems of control and management the grievances of industrial workers the party and the armed forces party controls and higher education censorship - a documented record the right of petition - letters to the press and party headquarters the Komsomols the godly and the godless Smolensk as a mirror of Soviet reality.