"Case Spring"

The Case Spring or the Guards is repression of Soviet Red Army officers who previously served in the Imperial Russian Army (military specialists), as well as civilians, including former White Army officers, organized by the OGPU in 1930-1931. In Leningrad alone, in May 1931, over a thousand people were shot in this case.[1]

Business

The organizer of the initiated case "Spring" was the leader of the OGPU Izrail Leplevsky. With the support of the deputy chairman of the OGPU Genrikh Yagoda, he inflated the scale of "Spring" to the scale of the "case of the Industrial Party."[2]

In total, according to some reports, more than 3,000 people were arrested, among them A.E. Snesarev, A.L. Rodendorf, Alexander Andreyevich Svechin, P.P. Sytin, F.F. Novitsky, Aleksander Verkhovsky, I. Galkin, Yu. K. Gravitsky, Vladimir Olderogge, V. A. Yablochkin, Nikolai Sollogub, A. A. Baltiysky, Mikhail Dmitriyevich Bonch-Bruyevich, N. A. Morozov, Aleksei Gutor, A. Kh. Bazarevsky, Mikhail Matiyasevich, V. F. Rzhechitsky, V. N. Gatovsky, P. M. Sharangovich, D. D. Zuev and others.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Historiography of the issue

This case gained fame with the release in 2000 of the book of the Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Tinchenko “The Calvary of Russian Officers”, which essentially raised this topic for the first time and made it accessible to the general reader.

Some documents relating to the operation "Spring" were published in the USSR in a two-volume collection of documents "From the archives of the Cheka, OGPU, NKVD" dedicated to this operation.

See also
  • Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization

References
  1. «Гвардейское дело»
  2. Публикация
  3. Ярослав Тинченко Голгофа русского офицерства в СССР. 1930—1931 годы
  4. Тухачевский и дело «Весна»
  5. Знание-сила: Операция «Весна»
  6. Служили два офицера. О книге Я. Тинченко
  7. З архівів ВУЧК, ГПУ, НКВД, КГБ. 2002 год, номер 1-2, изд-во «Сфера», Киев.А. А. Зданович.
  8. «Органы государственной безопасности и Красная Армия», глава, посвященная делу «Генштабисты» и операции «Весна»
  9. Отрывки из книги: (часть 1-я).

Literature
  • Ganin A.V. Everyday life of the General Staffists under Lenin and Trotsky. - M., 2016.
  • Ganin A.V. In the Shadow of "Spring." Former officers under repression of the early 1930s // Homeland. 2014. - No. 6. - S. 95-101.
  • Ganin A.V. Gambit Monighetti. The incredible adventures of the "Italian" in Russia // Homeland. 2011. - No. 10. - P. 122-125.
  • Ganin A.V. Archive and investigation of the military scientist A. A. Svechin. 1931-1932 // Bulletin of the archivist. 2014. - No. 2 (126). - S. 260—272; No. 3 (127). - S. 261-291.
  • Bliznichenko S. S., Lazarev S. E. “Anti-Soviet conspiracy” at the Naval Academy (1930-1932) // Bulletin of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The science. Society. Person. 2012. No. 3 (41). - S. 118—124.
  • Lazarev S.E. Military-political academy in the 1930s // Scientific reports of Belgorod State University. Series “History. Political science. Economy. Computer science". 2013. No. 8 (151). - Vol. 26. - S. 140-149.
  • Bliznichenko S. S., Lazarev S. E. Repression at the F.E.Dzerzhinsky Naval Engineering School in the 1930s. // Recent history of Russia. 2014. - No. 1 (09). - S. 124-139.

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