The case of oilmen-"saboteurs" of the years 1929-1931 and the fate of Nobel employees in the USSR. Revisited the genesis of the "economic counter-revolution"
Based on a wide range of sources, including investigation files from the Central Archive of the Federal Security Service of Russia, the article covers the story of «The Case of the counter-revolutionary, espionage and sabotage organization in the oil industry of the USSR» in the years 1929-1931, describes the last period of the «Nobel Oil production Partnership» in Russia, and the fate of former Nobel employees who worked for the Soviet oil industry. The interrelation between the «anti-sabotage» campaign at the turn of 1920s up to 1930s and the first repressive campaign against intelligentsia in the early 1920s, followed by the 30s, the evolution of the regime’s attitude towards the engineering and technical intelligentsia are shown in the article.