Soviet Koreans and Far Eastern NKVD in the 1930s
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Soviet Koreans and Far Eastern NKVD in the 1930s Alexander Kim 1 & Mariia Surzhik 2 & Aleksei Mamychev 3 Received: 11 June 2020 / Accepted: 30 September 2020/ # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract The period of 1930s in Soviet history is one from the most discussed in the contemporary Russian historiography. Therefore, Russian and foreign specialists conduct a large number of studies on this topic, and process archive data in order to search for new information. Their attitude towards repression is not unambiguous. Despite the large number of publications on this topic, there are still some areas that are unrobed by researchers. One of them is the relationship of NKVD and the Korean diaspora in the Soviet Far East. As is known, NKVD deported Soviet Koreans from the Far East to Central Asia in 1937. However, this question is complicated and accompanied struggles in regional NKVD. The aim of our work is to consider and analyze the relationship of the local NKVD and party organization to the Korean diaspora in the southern part of the Soviet Far East before ethnic deportation. Keywords Stalin repressions . Resistance . Local authorities . Far East . Korean diaspora .
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Introduction Korean diaspora in the Russian Far East existed from the nineteenth century. Soviet Koreans took part in the Russian Civil War on the Red side and positively considered Bolshevik policy. However, the first victims of ethnic repressions in USSR were Soviet Koreans. In 1937, this ethnic group was deported in the Central Asia. But incident of 1937 was a final act of different processes of resistance against this deportation in the local party organization and NKVD. We must note the Soviet Koreans received support * Alexander Kim [email protected]
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Institute of Law, Department of International Relations and Law, Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service, Vladivostok, Russian Federation
2
Department of Land Management, Primorye State Agricultural Academy, Ussuriysk, Russian Federation
3
Faculty of Political Sciences, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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not only from regional NKVD, but from members of the party organization too. Our article is the first work that considers relations between Soviet Koreans and representatives of local NKVD and party at that time. However, position of Far Eastern NKVD had main role. We shall consider it later.
Literature Review The subject of Stalin repressions is very popular not only among Russian scholars, but also in the international scientific community. A large number of scientific papers have been written on various aspects of these processes. Many of them were associated with events in the Far East, both in Russian [8, 9, 13, 20, 21] and in other languages [22, 25, 26, 28, 29]. Many research works on this topic have been translated from Russian into English [27, 30]. In the course of research conducted by both Russian and foreign authors, a number of important aspects of repressions were examined—from collectivization, purging in the army and p
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