ACTIVITIES OF THE CHEKA DURING THE CIVIL WAR A ND FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN SIBERIA 1917-1922: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ASPECT
The author of the article, based on the historical literature of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, analyzes the activities of the bodies of the all-Russian emergency Commission (Cheka) during the Civil war and foreign intervention of 1917-1922 in Siberia. He is interested in the differences in the estimates and interpretations of events that took place in this period, in the research literature. The article focuses on various aspects of the struggle against the opponents of Soviet power in the era of “red terror” in the face of “counter-revolutionaries”, “spies”, “foreign agents” and their reflection in historiography. The achievements of Russian and foreign historiography in the study of repressive and punitive system of Soviet state security during the Civil war are considered and reconsidered. In Soviet historiography, the theme of KGB punitive operations in Siberia during the Civil war was one of the most suppressed, which was actually imposed a kind of taboo. In modern Russia, the attention of researchers is focused more on the problem of repression in the late 1920s - early 1950s than on the period of the Civil war. In many fundamental historical works, the problem of military-political confrontation between the Bolsheviks and their opponents of the period 1917-1922 is touched upon only in fragments. In this publication, the author seeks to briefly analyze the available works on this problem and to identify their significance for the national and world history of the study of “red terror” in the Siberian region.