Launching a campaign against the “Trotskyists” in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Based on the materials from periodicals
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2024-6-4-48-59
Abstract
The mid-1930s domestic policy was associated with the struggle against the “counter-revolutionary Trotskyist opposition.” At that time, history professor N.N. Elvov worked in Kazan. He was “exiled” there in 1932 after being accused of “smuggling Trotskyism.” In that regard, choosing the main victim of the new wave in political repressions was obvious. The location of the “anti-Soviet attack” also turned out to be no coincidence: despite the fact that Nikolai Naumovich taught at many universities in Kazan, the promotion of his investigative case began at Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, which was the only university in the Volga region where specialists in history and social science were trained, and where they gathered the best representatives of the scientific intelligentsia, including those famous figures from the prerevolutionary school.
The article, based on a comparative analysis of the materials from the regional and central periodicals, considers in detail the process of unleashing a political and ideological campaign at the time of mass repressions in the national republic. The author demonstrates the direct dependence of the regional authorities’ decisions on the official position of the Central Committee of the All-Russia Bolshevik Communist Party. The research is founded on the principles of historicism, objectivity and complexity. The hermeneutic method of analyzing historical sources made it possible to interpret their content taking into account the political and ideological conditions of the actual reality, the social status and age of the participants in the events. The presented results may be of interest to the specialists studying the development of Soviet historical science under Stalinism.
About the Author
A. T. Galimzyanova
Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alina T. Galimzyanova, Cand. of Sci. (History)
7A, Baturin St., Kazan, 420111
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Galimzyanova A.T. Launching a campaign against the “Trotskyists” in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Based on the materials from periodicals. History and Archives. 2024;6(4):48-59. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2024-6-4-48-59
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