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Политические репрессии в Чечне 1920-1930-х годов

Author: Дендиев К. Г.
Year of publication: 2019
Published in: диссертация кандидата исторических наук; Грозный, ЧГУ имени А. А. Кадырова
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Nokhchi (Chechens)
Publication rights: not allowed (a 2019 publication under copyright)

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Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 15 places.

Campaigns

• The Great Terror in Chechen-Ingushetia (1937-1940)

  Already by mid-August 1937 the arrested were more numerous than recorded in the order, and on 1 March 1938 Moscow assigned the republic a new number - 10,108 people ordered arrested and convicted

Procedures

• Collectivization of Chechnya (1927-1936) — technique Installation of a New System of Governance

  Dendiev writes that in the Chechen Autonomous Oblast "the all-Union judicial system is introduced, with the subsequent abolition of sharia legal proceedings"

  The fourth point there read: "Abolish the 'people's' courts introduced by order from above, and restore the sharia organs of justice"; the fifth - "End the interference of regional leaders and figures of the central organs of power in the internal affairs of the 'Chechen Autonomous Oblast' and restore the powers of political decision of the Chechen Congress"

• Collectivization of Chechnya (1927-1936) — technique Seizure of Religious Institutions

  What good is this, when the Chechen people is being robbed of its last faith..."

  Dendiev: before the Russian revolution Chechnya had "2,675 mosques, 60 thousand murids [disciples of sheikhs], members of various religious organizations, 38 sheikhs, 850 mullahs and 140 religious schools", - and the count of mid-1937: "401 mosques, not counting the kub ones [small neighborhood mosques]", at which "406 mullahs worked"

• Collectivization of Chechnya (1927-1936) — technique Destruction of Local Knowledge Systems

  Dendiev places the closing of the religious schools in one row with the imposition of income tax on the mullahs, the abolition of the sharia courts and the handover of mosques "for economic needs"

• Collectivization of Chechnya (1927-1936) — technique Taxation

  Dendiev places the imposition of income tax on the mullahs as the first step of their displacement from the life of Chechnya

• Collectivization of Chechnya (1927-1936) — technique Punitive Expeditions

  Better to die, at least you will know you will be buried in trousers"

  They agreed to lay down arms if these conditions were met

• Collectivization of Chechnya (1927-1936) — technique Sham Trials

  …had operated since the 1920s: Kraft served as deputy head of the Chechen oblast department of the GPU - the oblast link of the political police - and worked with troikas as early as 1924: on 20 August the leadership of the Chechen oblast executive committee, on his report, resolved "to deem necessary the extension of the term of functioning of the troika for extrajudicial hearing by two months"

  Under this order the OGPU created troikas: cases in them were examined without trial, and the panel was made up of representatives of the krai committee of the party, of the procuracy, and Chekists

  …Yevdokimov, head of the OGPU for the North Caucasus krai, at a secret conference of the secretaries of the national oblast committees of the party in Rostov on 15 December 1932, reported the tally of the Chekists' "work" on the results of the uprising: "...745, of them 386 screened out, 359 brought before the troika, 100 people sentenced to 10 down to 3 years, 188 conditionally, 166 released"

• Collectivization of Chechnya (1927-1936) — technique Killing of Prisoners and Detainees

  In 1990 Kana-Sheikh Khantiev was rehabilitated"

• The Great Terror in Chechen-Ingushetia (1937-1940) — technique Neutralization of the Opposition

  Shkiryatov convened an enlarged plenum of the oblast committee of the party in the Lenin House of Culture in Grozny - by the archival protocols the plenum ran on 8-10 October 1937, with 194 participants

• The Great Terror in Chechen-Ingushetia (1937-1940) — technique Manufacturing Criminals

  Avtorkhanov names "up to 14 thousand people" arrested in the first wave; the published operational summary on the course of the operation gives, for mid-August, about 2.4 thousand arrested across the whole republic, divided in it by the assigned categories: 888 "kulaks" (peasants whom the colonizer deemed "well-off"), 831 "criminals", 682 of the "counter-revolutionary element"

  The arrests went on until November 1938: in the autumn of 1937 Moscow raised the number assigned to the republic to 3,200 people, and on 1 March 1938 assigned a new one - 10,108 people, of whom the troika convicted 6,767

  On 8 September 1937 the newspaper "Pravda" printed an article by its special correspondent Kuzovkin under the headline: "The Bourgeois-Nationalist Tangle in Chechen-Ingushetia"

• The Great Terror in Chechen-Ingushetia (1937-1940) — technique Liquidation of National Civic Organizations

  On 20 November 1937 the bureau of the oblast committee of the party (the "obkom VKP(b)") dissolved the board of the writers of the republic - the resolution's wording: "as having proved clogged with hostile bourgeois-nationalist elements /Arsanov, Mamakayev, Aiskhanov and others/"

• The Great Terror in Chechen-Ingushetia (1937-1940) — technique Destruction of Local Knowledge Systems

  Oshaev

• The Great Terror in Chechen-Ingushetia (1937-1940) — technique Torture and Abuse

  After the change of course he was put on trial - the charge: he "applied perverted methods of conducting the investigation and coerced the arrested into giving knowingly false testimony", and on the cases he falsified the troika passed death sentences

• The Great Terror in Chechen-Ingushetia (1937-1940) — technique Terror

  On the morning after the night arrests of 31 July 1937 the bureau of the oblast committee of the party resolved: to hold meetings in all kolkhozes "with an explanation of the political situation in the countryside", and by 5 August - district and Komsomol meetings "on the results of the operation"

  1178, obliged the oblast committees of the party: to organize "in each oblast, by districts, 2-3 open show trials" of assigned "wreckers of agriculture" - "covering the course of the trials widely in the local press"

  The newspaper "Groznensky Rabochy" ["The Grozny Worker"] covered the open trials from August 1937 - on 20 August under the headline: "The Trial of the Former Managers of Chechingtorg"

  - Such Is the Common Voice of the Party Organizations of Chechen-Ingushetia"; the newspaper denounced people by name - Gorchkhanov, Salamov, Mekhtiev, Vakhayev, Okuyev, Khaniev, Matsiev, Yandarov

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• The Great Terror in Chechen-Ingushetia (1937-1940) — technique Killing of Prisoners and Detainees

  On 11 July 1937 the occupation authorities approved the number of people "subject to shooting" in Chechnya: 862 "kulaks" (peasants whom the colonizer deemed "well-off") and 555 "criminals" - 1,417 people in all

  …1937 "without the prosecutor's sanction", on the standard charge of "anti-Soviet agitation", and on 2 December, by decision of the "troika under the NKVD of the ChIASSR", the Chekists shot him - eight days from arrest to killing; the finding on his case of 13 May 1958 states: "The investigation of Dudayev's case was conducted in violation of the law; confrontations with witnesses were not held"

  Moscow personally confirmed the lists of detainees for shooting: Stalin, Molotov and Zhdanov signed the list of 7 December 1937, and on 28 December the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR passed 32 death sentences on it

  on 12 September 1938 the Politburo confirmed a new list of those subject to its court: of the 61 under investigation, 50 went under the case of the "bourgeois-nationalist center", and 55 of them stood "in the shooting article"

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