Special Troika of the Krasnoyarsk NKVD: the Number of the Repressed in the Fall of 1938
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-4-911-919
Abstract
The research featured the Special Troika of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, i.e. a committee of three officials who issued sentences without public trial. The authors focused on the number of the convicted on the so-called ethnic cases during the late Great Terror in the fall of 1938. The study was based on the archival documents of the Special Troika of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. According to the protocols, 1,894 local residents were found guilty in the ethnic cases in in the fall of 1938. Out of 1,690 people who were sentenced to capital punishment, less than 1% were executed. On November 26, 1938, the NKVD issued Order No. 00762, which marked the end of the Great Terror and recommended to transfer the remaining cases to the courts. Those convicted on the last day of mass repressions were released, and the NKVD authorities were forbidden to carry out sentences approved by the Special Troika after November 15, 1938. On December 22, 1938, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs L. P. Beria declared that all execution sentences issued by the Troika before November 17, 1928, became invalid.
About the Authors
N. A. Potapova
Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Novosibirsk
https://publons.com/researcher/3880329//
A. A. Babiy
Krasnoyarsk Historical, Academic, and Human Rights Society "Memorial"
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Krasnoyarsk
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Potapova N.A., Babiy A.A. Special Troika of the Krasnoyarsk NKVD: the Number of the Repressed in the Fall of 1938. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2021;23(4):911-919. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-4-911-919
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