title: Political Repressions at Leningrad State University
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metadata.value: Belonogov, Andrey L.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-09T17:25:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-09T17:25:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Belonogov А. L. Political Repressions at Leningrad State University. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1085–1106.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.404
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23678
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article analyses socio-biographical characteristics of the Leningrad State University
  (LGU) teaching staff, subjected to political repressions from 1935 to 1938. It determines
  the scale of repressions in LGU during the abovementioned period as well as identifies the
  groups of University teachers who were exposed to the highest risk of being repressed, taking
  into consideration their social background, party membership, ethnic origin, position in the
  University ranks, affiliation with a certain faculty or department, and other socio-biographical
  characteristics. Thus “socio-demographic portrait” of an average LGU teacher subjected to
  political repressions is formed within the framework of the current study. Apart from that,
  the article discusses the course of investigation and court proceedings, defining under
  which paragraph of Article 58 of RSFSR Criminal Code LGU teachers were sued. It specifies
  to what extent the severity of the verdict depended upon pleading guilty or not guilty by
  the accused, and upon which judicial or extrajudicial body the case was heard. Evidential
  basis used by investigators, including physical evidence, denunciations, incriminations and
  self-incriminations are also examined within this study. The efforts of NKVD to “reclassify”
  meetings between groups of fellow professors as “counterrevolutionary collusions of terrorists”
  are also considered in the article. At the same time, the article attempts to estimate the level of
  physical and psychological pressure to which suspects were exposed in the course of the trial
  in order to obtain from them the testimony needed for the prosecution. The study also traces
  the fate of the convicted LGU professors, namely the likelihood of them becoming the victims
  of subsequent political repressions after serving the sentence.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political repressions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad State University (LGU)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: teachers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: socio-biographical characteristics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: extrajudicial NKVD bodies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: counterrevolutionary terrorist organizations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: expedited trial proceedings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: arrested
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Special Council of the NKVD
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Special troika
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Political Repressions at Leningrad State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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