Personnel support of the police of the Irkutsk province during the period of anti-Bolshevik power in 1918–1919

Vladimir Sinichenko; Dmitriy Kaveckiy

doi:10.35750/2071-8284-2020-3-33-41

VAK Russia 12.00.01 UDC 34 CSCSTI 10.09

3 more Collapse

PERSONNEL SUPPORT OF THE POLICE OF THE IRKUTSK PROVINCE DURING THE PERIOD OF ANTI-BOLSHEVIK POWER IN 1918–1919 Personnel support of the police of the Irkutsk province during the period of anti-Bolshevik power in 1918–1919

АА Аа

Published in Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia · Volume 2020, Issue 3 · Pages 33–41 · Rubric: Theory and history of law and the state; history of studies of law and state

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2020-3-33-41

Received: 30.09.2020 Accepted: 28.11.2025 Language of publication: RUS

Authors

Vladimir Sinichenko

ORCID

Dmitriy Kaveckiy

ORCID

Vladimir Sinichenko

Academic degree: doctor of historical sciences

Science rang: professor

Academy of management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Moscow

Military Educational and Scientific Centre of the Air Force «Professor N.E. Zhukovsky and Y.A. Gagarin Air Force Academy» vice-rector · FGBOU VO "Baykal'skiy gosudarstvennyy universitet" · Russian Federation

ORCID

Dmitriy Kaveckiy

East Siberian Institute of the MIA of Russia Russian Federation

ORCID

ABSTRACT

The article aims to study the activities of the police of the Irkutsk province during the Civil War. The object of the study in the article was the units of the people’s (civilian) police, created in early March 1917 and acting on the basis of the Regulation adopted on April 17, 1917 by the Provisional Government. On October 28 (November 10), 1917, the PKIB of the RSFSR issued a new decree «On the Workers’ Police», but after the overthrow of Soviet power in the summer of 1918 in the east of the country, the eastern regions returned to the Regulation of April 17. The functioning of the police in 1918–1919, based on the principles of the Provisional Government and became the object of analysis in this work. The subject of the study is the personnel work carried out during this period in the law enforcement agencies of the Baikal region. Along with general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction etc.), the work used problem-chronological and comparative methods that revealed the dynamics of historical events in Eastern Siberia, their impact on politics, on decision-making, and revealed similarities and differences in the forms, organization and manifestation of police actions operating in eastern Russia in the indicated historical period of time. It is concluded that the activities of the authorities of the Irkutsk province to recruit police units were unskilled. Of course, leaders at various levels, to the extent of their limited resources, tried to strengthen the public order authorities, but the lack of systemic organization of law enforcement work had a negative impact on the activities of the police. Neither the Omsk government, nor the civilian and military authorities of the Irkutsk province, could provide at the proper level not the material supply of the police, nor its personnel support. As a result, the police of the Irkutsk province not only did not defend the authorities against the Bolsheviks, but also could not cope with the functions of law enforcement. The increase in criminal criminality in 1918 and 1919 is recorded by all printed publications of the Irkutsk province of that time, as well as statistical reports of the provincial police.

KEYWORDS

crime, police, personnel, Bolsheviks, white governments, Siberia, criminal investigation bureau, law and order

Text

Text (PDF)

Read Download

1. Grozin S. Yu. Miliciya Vremennogo pravitel'stva (fevral'-oktyabr' 1917 g.) / Deyatel'nost' pravoohranitel'nyh organov v sovremennyh usloviyah : sb. mat. HHII nauch.-prakt. konf. - Irkutsk: Vostochno-Sibirskiy institut MVD Rossii, 2017. - S. 175-177.

2. Kostylev A. O. Rabota s kadrami milicii pri vremennom pravitel'stve / Voprosy sovershenstvovaniya pravoohranitel'noy deyatel'nosti organov vnutrennih del : mezhvuzovskiy sbornik nauchnyh trudov ad'yunktov i soiskateley. - Moskva: Mosk. un-t MVD Rossii, 2002. - S. 199-202.

3. Kuznecova E. N. Politika Vremennogo pravitel'stva v oblasti ohrany obschestvennogo poryadka: opyt sozdaniya narodnoy milicii / Rossiyskaya policiya : tri veka sluzheniya Otechestvu : materialy yubileynoy Mezhdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferencii, posvyaschennoy 300-letiyu rossiyskoy policii / pod red. N. S. Nizhnik. - Sankt-Peterburg: Sankt-Peterburgskiy universitet MVD Rossii, 2018. - S. 850-856.

4. Malygin A. Ya., Stepanov M. M. Pravoohranitel'nye organy belyh pravitel'stv. - Moskva: Yuridicheskiy institut MVD Rossii, 1999. - 169 s.

5. Mashkova A. S. Pravovye osnovy deyatel'nosti milicii v 1917-1918 gg. // Istoriya, teoriya, praktika rossiyskogo prava. - 2019. - № 12. - S. 126-138.

6. Nizhnik N. S. Policiya Rossiyskoy imperii v kontekste sovremennyh istoriko-pravovyh issledovaniy // Policeyskaya deyatel'nost'. - 2017. - № 6. - S. 35-78.

7. Petrov A. V. K voprosu o pravovom obespechenii organizacii i deyatel'nosti milicii Vremennogo pravitel'stva i milicii «belyh» pravitel'stv Urala i Sibiri // Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. - 2012. - № 1 (15). - S. 35-40.

8. Petrov A. V. Narodnaya miliciya vremennogo pravitel'stva i miliciya antibol'shevistskih pravitel'stv: sravnitel'no-pravovoy aspekt (na materialah Sibirskogo i Ural'skogo regiona). - Chelyabinsk: Izd-vo Yuzhno-Ural'skogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 2005. - 148 s.

9. Ryazanov S. M. Byvshie policeyskie i tyuremnye chinovniki v gody revolyucii i Grazhdanskoy voyny / Noyabr'skie istoriko-arhivnye chteniya - 2018 : materialy nauchnoy konferencii / pod red. S.V. Neganova. - Perm': PermGASPI, 2019. - S. 261-270.

10. Skorikova N. A. Iz istorii Sibirskoy milicii // Vestnik Irkutskogo gosudarstvennogo tehnicheskogo universiteta. - 2014. - № 10 (93). - S. 327-331.

11. Sonin V. V. Pravovoe polozhenie milicii Vremennogo pravitel'stva Primorskoy zemskoy upravy (1920 g.) // Vologodinskie chteniya. - 2009. - № 72. - S. 9-10.

12. Firsov I. F. Narodnaya i rabochaya miliciya Zaural'ya // Akademicheskiy vestnik. - 2012. - № 1 (19). - S. 189-194.

13. Shabel'nikova N. A., Chernomaz V. A. Organizacionnye osnovy stanovleniya miliceyskih uchrezhdeniy Primor'ya v 1917-1922 gg. // Obschestvo: filosofiya, istoriya, kul'tura. - 2017. - № 10. - S. 49-52.

GOST

Sinichenko V. V., Kaveckiy D. B. Personnel support of the police of the Irkutsk province during the period of anti-Bolshevik power in 1918–1919 // Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. 2020. no. 3. pp. 33-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2020-3-33-41. (Date of access 20.09.2026).

MLA

Vladimir Sinichenko, Kaveckiy D. B.. "Personnel support of the police of the Irkutsk province during the period of anti-Bolshevik power in 1918–1919." Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 2020.3 (2020): 33-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2020-3-33-41.

APA

Sinichenko V. V., Kaveckiy D. B. (2020). Personnel support of the police of the Irkutsk province during the period of anti-Bolshevik power in 1918–1919. Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, 2020(3), 33-41. https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2020-3-33-41

Chicago

Vladimir Sinichenko, Kaveckiy D. B.. "Personnel support of the police of the Irkutsk province during the period of anti-Bolshevik power in 1918–1919." Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 2020, no. 3 (2020): 33-41. https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2020-3-33-41.

WIKI

{{cite journal | author = Sinichenko V. V., Kaveckiy D. B. | title = Personnel support of the police of the Irkutsk province during the period of anti-Bolshevik power in 1918–1919 | journal = Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia | year = 2020 | volume = 2020 | issue = 3 | pages = 33-41 | doi = 10.35750/2071-8284-2020-3-33-41 }}

Copy

Export: BibTeX EndNote RefMan RusMARC

PERSONNEL SUPPORT OF THE POLICE OF THE IRKUTSK PROVINCE DURING THE PERIOD OF ANTI-BOLSHEVIK POWER IN 1918–1919 Personnel support of the police of the Irkutsk province during the period of anti-Bolshevik power in 1918–1919

Confirmation