title: N. N. Tagunov — a Stalin’s Correspondent
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metadata.value: Izmozik, V. S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-29T21:12:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-29T21:12:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Izmozik V. S. ‘N. N. Tagunov — a Stalin’s Correspondent’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 4, 2021, pp. 921–946.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.406
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37007
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metadata.value: The article explores one Bolshevik functionary between 1917 and the early 1930s, N. N. Tagunov. A
  child of the working class who completed secondary education, Tagunov represents a type of young Bolshevik
  actively involved in political life, passionate about philosophical problems, and irreconcilable to any deviation
  from the party line. In 1925–1934, Tagunov repeatedly sent letters to Joseph Stalin and several times received
  responses. In November 1925, Tagunov, as a member of the district committee bureau of the Central city district
  in Leningrad, sent a letter to the gubkom with sharp criticism of Zinoviev’s supporters on the eve of the Fourteenth
  party congress. Information about Tagunov’s letter was brought to Stalin, who replied to Tagunov; Tagunov in turn
  sent Stalin two long letters about the mood of Leningrad’s party leadership. At the same time, Tagunov tried to
  interest Stalin in his own theoretical works in the field of philosophy. After a short stay at the Institute of Red Professors
  in 1927, he sharply attacked leading Marxist philosophers of the time, accusing them of serious theoretical
  errors. At that time Stalin did not support Tagunov. After moving from Leningrad to Moscow in 1931, Tagunov
  worked in various institutions. At the end of December 1934, he sent Stalin a long letter for the last time, accusing
  former chairman of the Leningrad Soviet N. P. Komarov and a number of employees of the Party apparatus of
  feeding a gang of “Zinoviev’s murderers”. Stalin’s resolution read: “I read it. It is possible that comrade Tagunov
  is right”. The letter was sent to a number of Politburo members. After 1940 Tagunov was a personal pensioner.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: VKP(b)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Party
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: repression
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stalinism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: New Opposition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: N. N. Tagunov — a Stalin’s Correspondent
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metadata.value: Article
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