title: Revolutionary Military Railway Tribunals in Northwestern Russia
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metadata.value: Davydov, Alexander Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-06-29T10:58:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-29T10:58:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Davydov A. Yu. Revolutionary Military Railway Tribunals in Northwestern Russia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 2, рp. 353–375. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.204 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.204
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41699
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article discusses aspects of activities and social functions of the revolutionary military
  railway tribunals, which operated in 1920–1923. The novelty of the research is ensured by the
  lack of attention to this theme in historiography and the involvement of a wide range of sources
  which have not been previously introduced into the scholarship. The author focuses on the
  activities of the railway tribunals in four railway networks: the United North-Western Roads
  (Warsaw and Baltic directions), the Petrograd part of the Moscow-Vindava-Rybinsk network,
  Nikolaevskaii railway network (the prospective October railway), and Murmansk network.
  Three revolutionary military railway tribunals operated there. The author, for the first time in
  historiography, describes the reasons and the process of organizing the latter, their staff composition,
  and the forms of their work that changed at different stages. The emphasis is placed
  on the emergency powers of employees of these departments and the tasks assigned to them
  which was manifested in almost unlimited freedom of the members of the tribunals in administering
  justice in the “interests of the revolution”. The article presents an original perspective
  on the process of the controversial activity of the transport tribunals. The study reveals a
  conflict between their urgent task to restore labor discipline, on the one hand, and practical
  activities aimed at indulging the avant-garde class, on the other hand. The author comes to the
  conclusion that the tribunals, first of all, sought to unite the proletarian collectives around the
  Communist Party. Managers’ enthusiasm for an ideological project led them away from reality.
  In the final part of the article, it is proved that during the period of new economic policy,
  the activities of the revolutionary tribunals lost their extraordinary character. They ceased to
  correspond to their purpose and, in fact, turned into people’s courts, being abolished in 1923.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revolutionary tribunals
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: war communism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: railways
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the People’s Commissariat of Railways
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: emergency commissions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: bag people
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: labor deserters
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: visiting sessions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Revolutionary Military Railway Tribunals in Northwestern Russia
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metadata.value: Article
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