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    The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs , abbreviated as NKVD (Russian: НКВД; listen ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946. The agency was formed to succeed the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) secret police organization, and thus had a monopoly on … See more

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    After the Russian February Revolution of 1917, the Provisional Government dissolved the Tsarist police and set up the People's Militias. The subsequent Russian October Revolution of … See more

    In 1935–1945, the Main Directorate of State Security of NKVD had its own ranking system before it was merged into the Soviet military standardized ranking system.
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    The main function of the NKVD was to protect the state security of the Soviet Union through massive political repression, including authorized murders of many thousands of politicians and citizens, as well as kidnappings, assassinations, and mass deportations. See more

    The agency was headed by a people's commissar (minister). His first deputy was the director of State Security Service (GUGB).
    • 1934–1936 Genrikh Yagoda, both people's commissar of Interior and director of State Security See more

    Andrei Zhukov singlehandedly identified every single NKVD officer involved in 1930s arrests and killings by researching a Moscow archive. There are just over 40,000 names on the list. See more

    See also: Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union § Violence and terror and Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union § Terror, famine and the Gulag
    • Hastings, Max (2015). The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945 (paperback). … See more

     
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