«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «ISTORIYA»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «HISTORY»
ISSN 2222-9124 (Print)

List of issues > Series «History». 2022. Vol 41

The Formation and Functioning of Revolutionary Committees on the Gizhiginsky District Territory of Kamchatka Province in 1923–1925

Author(s)
A. F. Pasechnik
Abstract
The author of the article reveals the process of organizing the Gizhiginsky district revolutionary Committee, its structure and personnel composition, the compiler also reflects the activities on the formation of authorities at the lower level (rural revolutionary committees). The article writer shows the total number of rural revolutionary committees operating in the territory of the county in 1924-1925, indicating the names of settlements geographically related to them. The compiler pays special attention to the problematic aspects in the activities of authorities at the county and rural levels in conditions of remoteness, transport isolation, lack of communication and illiteracy of the vast majority of the population. The author of the article emphasizes the provincial revolutionary committee commissioners’ role in the Gizhiga district. This position was instated in order to strengthen the county administrative apparatus and increase the efficiency of its activities. There are highlighted the results of the specific officials’ work (Okhapkin P.G., Ponyataev N.S., Beretti N.N., Ponomarev P.N.), who carried out the leadership of the Gizhiginsky district, in the work. The materials from the collections of the Kamchatka Territory State Archive – F. P-19 (Kamchatka Provincial Bureau of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) – RCP (b)), F. R-30 (Kamchatka District Executive Committee), F.P-45 (Kamchatka District Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) – CPSU (b)) of the Kamchatka Territory state archive were used as the main sources of this article.
About the Authors
Pasechnik Alexander Fedorovich, Candidate of Sciences (History), Associate Professor, Department of Economic and Socio-Humanitarian Sciences, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, 13, Bokhnyak st., Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 683031, Russian Federation, е-mail: pasechnik-tg@yandex.ru
For citation
Pasechnik A.F. The Formation and Functioning of Revolutionary Committees on the Gizhiginsky District Territory of Kamchatka Province in 1923–1925. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2022, vol. 41, pp. 41-52. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2022.41.41 (in Russian)
Keywords
Kamchatka province, Gizhiginsky district, authorized of the Gubeniya Revolutionary Committee, county revolutionary committee, rural revolutionary committees, party commission.
UDC
908(571.66)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2022.41.41
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