ЗЕМЛЯЧЕСТВО УЧАСТНИКОВ ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ ВОЙНЫ В СИБИРИ (24 МАРТА 1929 - КОНЕЦ 1934 Г.)
Authors: В.И. ШИШКИН 
Published: November 2024

В статье анализируется деятельность организованного в Москве на рубеже 1928-1929 г. «Землячества партизан Алтая (Западной Сибири)». Установлено, что после присоединения к нему живших в столице сибирских партизан других районов, участников большевистского подполья, бойцов, политработников и командиров 5-й армии общество переименовалось в «Землячество участников Гражданской войны в Сибири». В статье выяснены инициаторы создания, активные участники землячества, его численность и состав, основные цели и задачи, направления и результаты работы. Доказано, что члены землячества сыграли важную роль в формировании источниковой базы по истории партизанского движения, смогли восстановить ряд важных событий партизанской борьбы, биографии многих ее участников. Подготовленные ими доклады и воспоминания способствовали прояснению ряда дискуссионных проблем гражданской войны в Сибири.

The article aims to highlight the main directions and results of the activities of the Soviet public organization, established on March 24, 1929 in Moscow at the Central Museum of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and named the “Zemlyachestvo of Partisans of Altai (Western Siberia)”. The community, whose name refers to the association of citizens living away from their home regions numbered about two dozen people and set itself the task of identifying and collecting material on the organization of the former Red partisans and their fight against Kolchak, studying it and publishing the results of the work. The article shows that the idea of Zemlyachestvo turned out to be in demand and found support. The Siberian partisans from other regions who lived in Moscow, members of the Bolshevik underground, fighters, political workers and commanders of the 5th Army, which eventually completely defeated Kolchak’s troops, joined the Zemlyachestvo. It is noted that by the end of 1929 - beginning of 1930, the number of the society increased to approximately 120 people, and it itself was renamedas the “Siberian Zemlyachestvo of the Civil War Participants.” The article analyzes the work of the community members in identifying documents in archives, writing autobiographies and memoirs, preparing reports. Research materials give grounds to assert that by the end of 1929, society had an impressive collection of original documents, texts of memoirs, and historical essays. The amount of work done is evidenced by the following facts: by mid-1934, at the general meetings of the Zemlyachestvo, in its thematic groups or sections, a total of 635 reports and messages were presented, 113 of which were transcribed, the texts were corrected and typed. At the end of 1934, by order of the Political Administration of the Red Army (RKKA), all communities that were once created according to the territorial principle at the Central Museum of the RKKA were liquidated. At the end of November 1936, the leadership of the former Siberian Zemlyachestvo transferred all its archival documents, as well as the materials of the collection of articles being prepared, to Novosibirsk at the disposal of the West Siberian Regional Commission on the History of the October Revolution and the Russian Communist Party (Istpart).