DOI: 10.7256/2454-0609.2018.6.28141

Abstract: The article is focused on an examination of the epidemiological situation of typhus during the Russian Civil War on the example of the Vyatka governorate. On the basis of previously unknown documents from the State Archives of the Kirov region, the authors analyze the work of local authorities in eliminating the epidemic and present statistical data on the course of the epidemic's unfolding. The authors identify the main problems faced by the authorities of the governorate in the fight against typhus and describe in details the measures which made it possible to reduce the percentage of typhus infections in the region. In solving posed research problems, the historical-systemic method was used as the main research approach, while as auxiliary methods, the authors used the statistical and comparative-historical methods. The novelty of the presented research lies in the fact that the authors introduce previously unknown archival materials into scientific circulation. One of the study's main conclusions is that only with the help of the Extraordinary Commission for the Control of Typhus it became possible to partially resolve the health crisis. By the end of 1920, the epidemic of typhus in the governorate began to decline.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-868X.2017.7.23539

Abstract: This article is dedicated to examination of one of the activity directions of the Vyatka provincial revolutionary tribunal – the investigation of criminal offences. Based on previously unstudied documents of the Kirov Region State Archive, the author analyzes the involvement of the special judicial investigating agency in the fight against crime, reveals situations when an investigative case could be subject to consideration by the revolutionary tribunal, as well as discusses the applied measures of punishment. The article provides the examples of criminal offences during this timeframe alongside the statistical data on the activity of the Vyatka tribunal. The scientific novelty consists on the fact that the author introduces the previously unexamined archive materials into the scientific discourse. One of the conclusions of this research implies that throughout its existence the Vyatka revolutionary tribunal had dealt with the criminal offences, the number of which varied from 10% to 20% of the overall cases. The author also underlines that by 1922, the tribunal gradually transformed into a civil court.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0609.2017.6.24392

Abstract: The article is focused on the study of one of the lesser-known Emergency Commissions of the Civil War period: the Cheka (the All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage) on the Czechoslovak front. On the basis of previously unstudied documents from the State Archive of the Kirov Oblast, the State Archive of Socio-Political History of the Kirov Oblast and the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the author examined the conflict between the uyezd party workers and the chairman of the Vyatka branch of the Cheka at the Council of People's Commissars, revealed its causes and demonstrated the work of the local authorities. The article describes in detail the polemics of the Urzhum Bolsheviks on the issue of interacting with the emergency structure. In solving this study's research questions, the main approach used was the historical-typological method, and as auxiliary ones: the comparative-historical and the historical-systemic methods. The novelty of this research lies in the fact that the author introduces into scientific circulation previously unknown archival materials. One of the work's main conclusions is that the conflict between party workers and representatives of the Emergency Commission in the Urzhum Uyezd of the Vyatka Governorate was provoked, mainly, by a material factor.