Commissar of militia

Authors

  • Mongush S. Bayr-ool Tuvan Institute for the Humanities

Keywords:

Ministry of Internal Affairs, Tuva, militia, biography, politics, history, Toka, cult of personality, repressions

Abstract

Article tells about the fate of a commissar of militia, one of the heads of the law-enforcement agencies of the People’s Republic of Tuva, Tuvan Autonomous Region Mongush Bayan-oolovich Artas. It is based on written memoirs of M.Artas, archival resources and author’s personal memories to reconstruct character’s biography and give his testimonial as well as picturing a tragic background of the epoch.

References

Published

28.02.2012

Issue

Section

Tuva yesterday, today, tomorrow

Author Biography

  • Mongush S. Bayr-ool Tuvan Institute for the Humanities
    Candidate of Philosophy, senior researcher, Department of sociology

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