THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE CHEKIST AGENT IN THE 1920s

Abstract

The relevance of the work is determined by the fact that it analyzes the activities of the Oryol security officers in the realities of their daily service in the early 1920s, which corresponds to modern directions of historical research, one of which is the history of modernity. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that in the scientific revolution a new aspect of the history of everyday life is introduced, namely the daily service on the example of the precinct emergency transport Commission (WTCC) Orlovsky railway transport hub. New archival material is also being introduced into scientific circulation. The source database is represented by documents of the state archive of the Oryol region. The records in the orders of UCCK of Artcc reveal many important aspects of life "ordinary people", ordinary employees of the Cheka, a look at the history of the early twentieth century "from below", from the standpoint of an ordinary person is a widely accepted approach for historians of everyday life. The article considers the staff of the Oryol UTCHK, which during 1920 at various times served about a hundred employees in positions: the head (chief) and his assistant (head of the secret-operational unit), the commandant with an assistant, five commissioners in various areas of service and their assistants, agents, operational agents, secret agents, line agents, agent-military chief, as well as clerical employees. Specific examples are used to analyze such elements of everyday service as recruitment, promotion and demotion, and dismissal of employees of the UTCHK.

Keywords

• cheka
• utchk
• security officers
• state security
• service
• everyday life
• official duties
• discipline
• weapons
• population