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.

Published

28.02.2012

How to Cite

Bayr-ool, M. S. (2012) “Commissar of militia”, The New Research of Tuva, 1. Available at: https://nit.tuva.asia/nit/article/view/355 (Accessed: 17.05.2024).

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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