Губернські територіальні апарати ВЧК у радянській Україні на початку 1920-х рр.
Provincial territorial Cheka offices in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1920s

Summary/Abstract: The article’s goal is to examine the early 1920s Cheka’s establishment of regional offices throughout Ukraine. The leadership of the Cheka paid the main attention to the formation of an agent and information apparatus. This enabled the elimination of insurgent groups and spy networks, as well as the penetration of diverse social groupings and the revelation of a wide spectrum of moods and behaviors of the populace living under Bolshevik occupation. The populace’s mood could be controlled at the same time thanks to a wealth of information, which was used to target the so-called «kulaks» «church counter-revolution» and «world/European bourgeoisie» which allegedly prevented the Bolsheviks from overcoming the devastating consequences of the First World War and the Russian-Ukrainian wars in Ukraine.

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