The Soviets Abroad: The NKVD, Intelligence, and State Building in East-Central Europe after World War II

IF 0.3 3区 历史学 Q2 HISTORY KRITIKA-EXPLORATIONS IN RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN HISTORY Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1353/kri.2022.0042
Molly Pucci
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By the time Nikolai Kovalchuk was removed from service in 1954, he had worked in the Soviet secret police for over 20 years. He had served not only in Soviet Russia and Ukraine but also in the Baltic states soon after they were annexed to the Soviet Union and the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) adviser apparatus in Poland and Germany after World War II. Born in Kiev in 1902, Kovalchuk had completed only two years of high school before joining a local militia. He served in the Red Army between November 1926 and April 1932. While in the Red Army, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in November 1927 at the age of 25, after the defeat of Lev Trotskii had cemented Iosif Stalin as sole dictator of the Soviet Union. He was one of the hundreds of thousands of new, young recruits who entered the party between 1924 and 1928, when it expanded from 472,000 to 1,304,471 members.1 He was recruited to the NKVD from the Red Army in April 1932; there, from 1936, he was promoted rapidly in the ranks during the campaigns of mass violence known as the Great Terror. During World War II, he served in military intelligence on the Fourth Ukrainian Front and attained the rank of lieutenant general. From 1945, he was moved from country to country to oversee security operations in territories newly annexed to, or increasingly under the influence of, the Soviet Union. He served as chief NKVD adviser in Soviet-occupied Germany (August 1946–August 1949) and Poland (June
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1954年,尼古拉·科瓦尔丘克被免职时,他已经在苏联秘密警察局工作了20多年。他不仅曾在苏俄和乌克兰服役,还曾在波罗的海国家被苏联吞并后不久服役,并在二战后在波兰和德国担任内务人民委员会顾问机构。科瓦尔丘克1902年出生于基辅,在加入当地民兵组织之前,他只完成了两年的高中学业。1926年11月至1932年4月,他在红军服役。在红军服役期间,他于1927年11月加入苏联共产党,时年25岁。列夫·托洛茨基的失败巩固了伊奥西夫·斯大林作为苏联唯一独裁者的地位。他是1924年至1928年间进入该党的数十万新招募的年轻人之一,当时该党的党员从472000人增加到1304471人。1 1932年4月,他从红军被招募到NKVD;从1936年起,他在被称为“大恐怖”的大规模暴力运动中迅速晋升。第二次世界大战期间,他在乌克兰第四阵线担任军事情报,并获得中将军衔。从1945年起,他被从一个国家调到另一个国家,负责监督新并入苏联或越来越受苏联影响的领土上的安全行动。他曾在苏联占领的德国(1946年8月至1949年8月)和波兰(6月
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期刊介绍: A leading journal of Russian and Eurasian history and culture, Kritika is dedicated to internationalizing the field and making it relevant to a broad interdisciplinary audience. The journal regularly publishes forums, discussions, and special issues; it regularly translates important works by Russian and European scholars into English; and it publishes in every issue in-depth, lengthy review articles, review essays, and reviews of Russian, Eurasian, and European works that are rarely, if ever, reviewed in North American Russian studies journals.
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