Characteristics of banditry and illegal arms trafficking during the Civil War and the first post-war years in the Belgorod district of the Kursk province

Relevance. The article examines the measures of regulatory legal regulation applied by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars in the field of banditry and illegal arms trafficking during the Civil War and the first post-war years. The authors studied the territorial division of the volosts of the Belgorod district of the Kursk province and the staffing of the GPU and police departments in the county, volosts and districts in the early 1920s. In accordance with the reports, an analysis of the activities of the Belgorod District police in the fight against banditry and illegal arms trafficking was carried out.

Purpose: to study the genesis of banditry and illegal arms trafficking during the Civil War and the first post-war years in the Belgorod district of the Kursk province.

Objectives: to study the characteristics of gangs and gangs that carried out their criminal activities in the region based on the analysis of migration processes that took place in the territory of Belgorod and the county in the context of the impact on crime levels during the Civil War and the first post-war years.

Methodology. The main methodological principles of the research were historicism and objectivity, and the authors adhered to general scientific methods of synthesis analysis and the historical-descriptive method.

The results of the study are theoretical and applied in nature, based on the study of archival documents, the main measures used by the law enforcement agencies of the county in the early 1920s to combat banditry and illegal arms trafficking are identified, and attention is paid to statistical reporting by the OGPU and the police in this area.

Conclusions. The conducted research has established that the law enforcement agencies of the Belgorod district of the Kursk province managed to identify the main directions, develop and apply a set of fundamental measures to combat banditry and illegal arms trafficking during the Civil War and the first post-war years on the territory of the county.

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