Participation of the Organs of the OGPU-NKVD of the Soviet Union in the Collectivization of Agriculture
Journal: Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Year: 2022

Abstract This article analyzes the role of the OGPU-NKVD in carrying out the policy of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the collectivization of agriculture, and it reports on the protest movements of the peasantry, on individual and collective protests against collectivization, and the suppression of these movements by punitive bodies. The measures of the authorities for the “liquidation of the kulaks as a class” and the organs of the OGPU-NKVD as a mechanism for carrying out repre