“Deviations” as the main motive for the party purge (People’s Commissariat of Finance of the USSR, December 1929)
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-9-95-117
Abstract
The article studies the party purge in December 1929 in the main Soviet institution that implemented the policy of the NEP – the People’s Commissariat of Finance of the USSR. The analysis of archival materials shows that the main motive for the party “purge” was to remove all those workers who were involved to a greater or lesser extent in the implementation of the new economic policy, to remove them by accusing them of various kinds of “deviations”, which were considered as broadly as possible – from “right-wing position” to family squabbles. The Party Charter is being replaced by a criterion, the essence of which is the depersonalization of everything human, the urge to eradicate any “hesitation” of a communist as a manifestation of a personal beginning. That purge is the first and most important stage in the creation of a totalitarian system of power.
About the Author
A. L. Yurganov
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Andrei L. Yurganov
6-6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047, Russia
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Yurganov A.L. “Deviations” as the main motive for the party purge (People’s Commissariat of Finance of the USSR, December 1929). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2025;(9):95-117. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-9-95-117
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