title: Political Departments on Soviet Railways during the Years of War Communism
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metadata.value: Davydov, Alexander Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-07-11T19:42:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-07-11T19:42:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-06
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metadata.value: Davydov A. Yu. Political Departments on Soviet Railways during the Years of War Communism. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2024, vol. 69, issue 2, рp. 335–357. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.206 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45737
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines the activities of the railway political departments in 1919–1920. They
  were institutions created by the Bolshevik leadership under the People’s Commissariat of Railways
  to resolve issues in emergency mode. The article aims to analyze the activities of these
  organizations in establishing their dictate on the railways in the first years of the Soviet power.
  The study of the work of political departments is relevant in the context of understanding the
  mechanisms of the political influence of the Soviet state on the society. The article sheds light
  on the under-researched aspect and introduces not previously used sources into the scholarship.
  The article provides facts about two stages of the functioning of the organizations in
  question. During the first stage (March 1919 — January 1920), the attention was focused on
  their political/educational activities; their impact on the economic/political spheres was minimal.
  During the second stage (January 1920 — January 1921), when the political departments
  became a means of the People’s Commissar of Railways, L. D. Trotsky, all the structures of the
  transport complex of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic were subordinated to
  them. The author puts forward a thesis of how the absolute power of the political departments
  and the People’s Commissariat of Communication Routes of the Soviet Union was extended
  to the railways and workforce. The author also develops the idea expressed earlier in the
  scholarship about the transformation of political departments and the suppressed trade union
  of transport workers into a powerful party-state structure, which, under the leadership of
  Trotsky, became a key player in the restoration of the country’s economy after the Civil War.
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
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 69; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political departments
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: People’s Commissariat for Communication Routes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chief Political Directorate for the Communication Routes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Petrograd Railway Terminal Political Department
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Е. F. Rozmirovich
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: L. D. Trotsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. P. Rosengolz
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: S. M. Gessen
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Order no. 1042
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Committee of the United Union of Railway and Water Transport Workers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Political Departments on Soviet Railways during the Years of War Communism
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metadata.value: Article
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