Abstract
This study is based on various government, personal, and foreign sources, but mainly on archival materials: the transcripts of the Soviet governing bodies and nationwide discussion commentaries, the internal correspondence of the leaders, the huge complex of surveillance data, and the first-person documents: diaries, interviews and letters to the newspapers and authorities. Discussed are the sources used, their limitations and validity.
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R. W. Davies refers there to the report of the Voronezh NKVD, dated 20 July 1936, about the situation in the oblast’.
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The instruction to the American intelligence analysts is to identify what the customer (government) needs and deliver the intelligence to satisfy those needs (George and Bruce 2008, p. 2). In Soviet practice, however, it could turn into a dilemma when the government vision of the event did not correspond to reality as it appeared to the analyst. Soviet statisticians in the “repressed” 1937 census paid with their lives for statistics that did not conform to Stalin’s views on society.
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By 1 November 1936, seven republics reported 94,521 recommendations.
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Velikanova, O. (2018). Sources. In: Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78443-4_2
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