Catalogue · ID 259

Хроника первого разоружения Чечни

Author: Эльбуздукаева Т. У.
Year of publication: 2015
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Nokhchi (Chechens)
Publication rights: free (CyberLeninka: CC BY 4.0 (licence stated on the article page))

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Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 7 places.

Campaigns

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925)

  Elbuzdukayeva writes: "The unceasing banditry and insurgent movements in the North Caucasus were perceived by the Moscow authorities as a convincing argument in favor of its centralizing efforts, the process of transferring autonomous sovereignty from Caucasian into Moscow hands"

  Gotsinsky [the head of the resistance] was presumed to be"

  Stalin has given his personal consent to the necessity of the operation"

Procedures

• Sovietization of Chechnya: revkoms in place of Soviets, punitive operations and Cheka executions (1920-1924) — technique Sham Trials

  The Chechen authorities already in that same May telegraphed the center: "Sanction the creation of a tribunal or a political troika"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Dehumanization

  Mountain Chechnya is a refuge for the most hardened enemies of Soviet power"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Imposition of a Backwardness Narrative

  On 31 July 1925 the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, in the order justifying the operation to disarm Chechnya, declared the Chechens incapable of proper farming: "The rich lands granted to the Chechens on the plain after the revolution are not used by them in full; they run their agriculture in backward forms, are not industrious"

  Elbuzdukayeva, who publishes the order, also cites its continuation: "political indications" had ripened - the population's weariness of war and the demand to fight "banditry"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Military Intervention

  On 25 August 1925 the USSR sent troops into the Chechen Autonomous Oblast to take away the weapons of its inhabitants; the operation was conducted by the army and the OGPU (the political police, a predecessor of today's FSB) under the overall command of Uborevich, commander of the North Caucasus Military District, and Yevdokimov, plenipotentiary representative of the OGPU for the krai

  Elbuzdukayeva gives, from the military documents, a different count: 6183 Red Army men with 137 heavy and 102 light machine guns, 14 mountain and 10 light [artillery] guns, and beyond that 341 OGPU officers assembled from across the whole North Caucasus

  The concentration of troops in Grozny was explained by forthcoming maneuvers"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Indiscriminate Attacks

  Elbuzdukayeva lists the targets by name: "In the course of the operation the aircraft of the 3rd, and from 6 September also of the 5th aviation detachments delivered air strikes on the auls of Zumsoy, Dai, Tagir Khoy, Akki Bougi, Oshni, Khimoy, Nizheloy, Ragekhoy, Urus-Martan and Nozhay-Yurt"

• The disarmament of Chechnya: a military operation with artillery shelling and bombing of auls (1925) — technique Neutralization of the Opposition

  Gotsinsky was urgently taken to Rostov-on-Don, where on 15 October 1925 he was sentenced to be shot"