Yakiv Fleishman. Nonparadic Portrait of the Head of the NKVD Special Department in the Dnipropetrovsk Region

Abstract

Abstract: The complete history of communist terror in Ukraine cannot be created without a thorough study of the state security bodies staff. The disclosure and characterization of the personnel management system in Soviet state security agencies, the revealing of the Chekist personnel selection and rotation principles allow to reconstruct to some extent the mechanisms for managing mass repressions in the Soviet era, to identify those «driving belts» that were used by the Party and Soviet nomenclature to carry out their goals. The research is dedicated to the Soviet state security bodies employee Yakiv Fleishman, whose professional activity was inextricably linked with the political repressions of the Great Terror in the then Dnipropetrovsk region. Keywords: NKVD, Yakiv Fleishman, Great Terror, Dnipropetrovsk region.