“I Earnestly Request… That I Not Be Lumped Together with These Traitors [and] Double-Dealers”. V. N. Kuznetsov’s Letters to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (November — December 1930)
https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-1165-2026-1-123-158
Abstract
This article presents three previously unpublished letters sent by V. N. Kuznetsov to the party leadership between November and December 1930. V. N. Kuznetsov, the former Second Secretary of the Siberian Krai Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), had been stripped of his post and recalled to Moscow in August 1930 for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy against R. I. Eikhe. Through these letters, he desperately sought to distance himself from emerging accusations — specifically, his suspected ties to the “Syrtsov — Lominadze Right-Left Bloc” — in a bid to regain the trust of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party. By pairing these documents with a comprehensive reconstruction of V. N. Kuznetsov’s biography, this article offers a compelling case study of the possibilities and stark limitations of personal political survival amid the curtailing of intra-party democracy and the intensification of state control.
Keywords
Siberian party organization,
Siberian Krai Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks),
V. N. Kuznetsov,
R. I. Eikhe,
V. Yu. Eger,
V. A. Kavraiskii,
I. S. Nusinov,
personnel policy,
letters to the authorities
Supporting agencies: The publication was prepared as part of the state assignment project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, titled “Society and Power in Russia in the 20th and Early 21st Centuries: Political Participation, Communication, and Actor Identity” (Project No. FWZM‑2024-0008).
About the Author
T. I. Morozova
Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tatiana I. Morozova, Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Research Fellow of the Sector of History of Socio-Political Development
Scopus Author ID: 57194705184, WoS ResearcherID: M‑8817-2016
Novosibirsk
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Morozova T.I. “I Earnestly Request… That I Not Be Lumped Together with These Traitors [and] Double-Dealers”. V. N. Kuznetsov’s Letters to the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (November — December 1930). Universum Humanitarium. 2026;(1):123-158. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/2713-1165-2026-1-123-158
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