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- Title
Political Agitation and Mass Party Work in the Sochi Militsiya Department of the NKVD during the Second World War (September -- December 1942).
- Authors
Taran, Konstantin V.
- Abstract
The paper discusses political agitation and mass party work in the Sochi Militsiya (militsiya -- Soviet-time police) Department of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) in the period when a major part of the Krasnodar Region was occupied by NKVD troops (September -- December 1942). The sources used feature archival materials of the Center for Documentation of the Contemporary History of the Krasnodar Region, Krasnodar, Russian Federation, scholarly papers and publications by Russian researchers, and Soviet periodicals (Izvestia and Krasnaya Zvezda newspapers), as well as collections of archival documents and materials. As a conclusion, the author shows that key forms and methods of mass party work included organizing political and morale building activities among the militia department personnel, raising political awareness in subdivisions, studies in groups of young communists and candidates for the membership in the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (VKPB), arranged by party workers. In addition, VKPB members ran mass party activities in the Komsomol organization of the NKVD Department. Political agitation placed an important focus on the work of the editorial board and publication of a wall newspaper. Propaganda teams were also created. Another central field of action was running patriotic and political campaigns, such as a rally in support of Red Army (Workers' and Peasants' Red Army) soldiers and raising funds to support them and purchase New Year's gifts, as well sewing and collecting warm clothes for the Red Army.
- Subjects
WORLD War II; CIVIL war; SOCIALISM; WALL newspapers; SOVIET Union. Narodnyi komissariat vnutrennikh del
- Publication
Propaganda in the World & Local Conflicts, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
2500-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13187/pwlc.2022.1.33