Novosibirsk NKVD-NKGB Department Party Organization activities on the eve and duringthe Great Patriotic War in Novosibirsk region

The article considers the problem of Novosibirsk Regional NKVD-NKGB Department involvement into the Partys activitieson the eve and during the Great Patriotic War. Work and leisure conditions of the Party members in 1941-1945 are researched. Therelations between Novosibirsk Regional NKVD-NKGB Department and VKP(b) executive committees are researched as well. The authormaintains that there was a close connection between the Party organizations and the State Security organizations in NovosibirskRegion in 1941-1945 due to the peculiarities of the state system activities during the Great Patriotic War. The connection was realisedin many ways, for instance, exchanging of staff, business correspondence, party congresses, meetings and others. On the instructions ofthe District Executive Committee of VKP(b), the Regional NKVD-NKGB Department solved different problems, from social, politicaland economic security in Novosibirsk region to propaganda at polling stations during elections. By the task of the regional Party organizations,Novosibirsk Regional NKVD-NKGB Department checked up candidates for the leading positions during the Great PatrioticWar. State Security organizations in Novosibirsk Region made censorship (opening and inspection of correspondence), took an activepart in carrying out regions management, and trained partisans. It is possible to say that during the Great Patriotic War NovosibirskRegional NKVD-NKGB Department Party Organization was a part of the local Party organization. Its structure and principles of workwere similar to other Party organizations in different state agencies of the war period. There was a complicated structure of NovosibirskRegional NKVD-NKGB Department in 1941-1945. There were many subdivisions inside. As a rule, every subdivision had its ownParty organization with communists and candidate-members of the Communist Party. The more subdivision was, the more communistsand candidate-members it included. The Party Bureau led Novosibirsk Regional NKVD-NKGB Department Party organizations. Thesecond Party organ, the Party Committee, was under the leadership of a secretary with some ordinary members. The main missions ofNovosibirsk Regional NKVD-NKGB Department Party organizations were arrangement of meetings, Party studies, Party control, sportactivities and sponsorship.

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