title: From Revolutionary Legality to Revolutionary Expediency: Evolution of Relations the GPU—OGPU and Prosecutors During the New Economic Policy (on the Example of the Omsk Irtysh Region)
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metadata.value: Sushko, A. V.
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metadata.value: 2018-04-04T15:30:10Z
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metadata.value: 2018-04-04T15:30:10Z
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metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Sushko A. V. ‘From Revolutionary Legality to Revolutionary Expediency: Evolution of Relations the GPU—OGPU and Prosecutors During the New Economic Policy (on the Example of the Omsk Irtysh Region)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018, pp. 70–81.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9299
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metadata.value: The article describes the evolution of relations between the GPU–OGPU and prosecutors in the
  Omsk-Irtysh region. It was shown that at the end of 1922 to the middle of 1927, prosecutors in accordance with
  their mandate successfully carried out the state control over activities of the OGPU and its compliance with Soviet
  legislation thereby performing in practice the idea of “revolutionary legality”. The character of relations prosecutors
  and OGPU was changed in 1927. This is evidenced by the “Parygin case”. Security officers with the support
  of the local party-state elite began to ignore the public prosecutor’s supervision, this discrediting the prosecuting
  authorities. By the beginning of 1928 in Omsk Irtysh region prosecuting authorities had lost influence and did not
  have the support of the party apparatus. With regard to citizens under investigation by the OGPU, prosecutors
  could not fulfill their responsibilities for monitoring compliance with citizens’ rights and the Rule of Law in general.
  Since the late 1920s, the need for ruling party in conduct of the OGPU’s repressive policy against wide social
  groups led to the fact that is not prosecutors who oversaw the OGPU, but the OGPU which, in spite of the legislation,
  conducted surveillance of the prosecuting authorities and reported its results to the party leadership. At that
  time the OGPU was not supervised by prosecuting authorities, on the contrary, prosecuting authorities began to
  be supervised by the OGPU despite Soviet Law. Such practices during the second half of the 1920s are evidence
  of approval in Soviet society the primacy of “revolutionary expediency”, which comes from the OGPU, over “revolutionary
  legality”, which were supposed to provide prosecuting authorities together with the courts. It became
  the most important precondition for the spoiling of the NEP, collectivization and large-scale political repression.
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metadata.value: ru
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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 8; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the GPU—OGPU
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: prosecutors
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Omsk Irtysh region
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legality
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the New Economic Policy
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: From Revolutionary Legality to Revolutionary Expediency: Evolution of Relations the GPU—OGPU and Prosecutors During the New Economic Policy (on the Example of the Omsk Irtysh Region)
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