Women in the service of the Soviet secret police in the 1920s
The study focuses on the clerks, typists, registrars, translators, censors, and technical staff involved in the political control apparatus of the Soviet state security agencies in the 1920s. It is based primarily on an analysis of the autobiographies of female employees of the All-Ukrainian Extraor...
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| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/chreecc, |
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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Cahiers d’histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique
2026
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | The study focuses on the clerks, typists, registrars, translators, censors, and technical staff involved in the political control apparatus of the Soviet state security agencies in the 1920s. It is based primarily on an analysis of the autobiographies of female employees of the All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission (VUChK), which later became the State Political Directorate in Soviet Ukraine (DPU), and offer insights into their life experiences, individual choices, and underlying motives. The aim is to describe the social space these women inhabited, the life strategies they employed to integrate into the Bolshevik government structures—including the political police—and the ways in which they adapted to new political realities. The research draws on 63 autobiographies of female employees, as well as characteristics, reports, service questionnaires, and service records from personal files preserved in the Sectoral Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine. |
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