Волны «ленинградского дела» (по материалам следственных дел родственников «врага народа»)
Waves of the "Leningrad Affair" (A Case Study on the Repression of Relatives of the "Enemies of the People" Based on Investigatory Materials)

Summary/Abstract: This article concerns the repression of the family of F. E. Mikheev and is based on archival documents, which remain inaccessible to most historians to the present day. F. E. Mikheev served as manager of the Leningrad regional and city party committee and was condemned during the first trial of the “Leningrad affair” that took place in Leningrad between 30 September and 1 October 1950. The author uses the investigation of the Mikheev family as a case study capable of illustrating the structure of the repressions that were authorized against the families of the condemned Leningrad officials by V. M. Andrianov, secretary of the Leningrad regional and city party committee. It also shows how their children were put into state orphanages after their parents’ arrest. On the basis of archival documents the author reconstructs the investigation against F. E. Mikheev’s relatives and makes an attempt to identify features typical of the repressions against the families of the “Leningrad Affair” victims.

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