Liaskovska Svitlana

Informative value of personnel records of state security bodies officials for studying Soviet secret services history

Section: Historiographical and sources of research

Abstract: Research aim – to carry out the historiographic analysis of Soviet state security bodies officials’ personnel records, to define the informative value of official and personal documents contained in them. The research methodology is founded upon the principles of objectivity, systematicity, dialectics, historicism and interdisciplinarity. The study is based on the historical: problematic-chronological, comparative-historical, institutional, historical-anthropological (comprehension of motives, aspirations, views, social and cultural behavior stereotypes of secret service employees) as well as historical and legal methods. Scientific novelty: the historiographic analysis of personnel records has been carried out, informative value of documents, contained in them has been defined, the examples of using information from personnel records for elaborating some aspects of Soviet state security bodies history and the history of Ukraine have been given Conclusions. Personnel records of state security bodies officials is an extremely informative document collection of Soviet secret services archives. The prospects that open up to historians studying personnel records are much broader than studying the biographies of former employees compiled and published at different times. Information, contained in official and personal documents can become the subject of research into the history of everyday life (determining the conditions of life, work, rest and treatment of employees, as well as factors that influenced their moral and psychological qualities and behavior) and the history of the intelligence services within broad and narrow chronological framework, related to specific periods of their functioning. Verification of archival sources of various origin will help to fill the information gaps as for defining the functions of state security bodies individual structural units, identify the date of republican bodies foundation, clarify or even refute some false information spread in special literature on history.

Keywords: personnel record, service record, special-purpose resume, background check, effectiveness report.

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• Liaskovska Svitlana (National Academy of Security Service of Ukraine, Kyiv, academy@ssu.gov.ua) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1394-6394

Cite:
Liaskovska Svitlana (2019). Informative value of personnel records of state security bodies officials for studying Soviet secret services history. From archives of VUChK–GPU–NKVD–KGB, ( 2 (52)) 311-336. (In Ukrainian). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/vuchk2019.02.311

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