Engaged by the Revolution: the Lepsis Chekist family in Vyatka (1919)
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2023-8-2-95-101
Abstract
Based on unpublished sources from the funds of the State Archive of the Kirov region and memoir journalism, the article analyzes a fragment of the life path of the spouses of security officers R. K. Lepsis and A. I. Lepsis associated with their service in Vyatka during the Civil War. The purpose of the work is to use the example of a single married couple of security officers to indicate the factors that influenced the life of the family in the era of social cataclysms. The theoretical basis of the study is the anthropological approach. In conclusion, the author emphasizes that the study of the Lepsis family makes it possible to reconstruct the image of a Soviet person, to get to the problems of gender history.
Keywords
military anthropology,
Latvians,
Civil War,
Cheka,
Soviet special services,
Soviet power,
Vyatka,
Lepsis
About the Author
A. S. Pozdnyakova
Kirov State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
POZDNYAKOVA Anastasia Sergeevna, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Lecturer of Humanities and Social Sciences Department
AuthorID (RSCI): 836347
Kirov
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Pozdnyakova A.S. Engaged by the Revolution: the Lepsis Chekist family in Vyatka (1919). Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2023;8(2):95-101. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2023-8-2-95-101
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