OGPU

GPTKB entity

Statements (96)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Soviet security agency
gptkbp:country gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:dissolved 1934
gptkbp:formed 1923
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Joint_State_Political_Directorate
gptkbp:function Suppression of opposition
Counter-intelligence
Political policing
State security
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Moscow
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label OGPU
gptkbp:nativeName gptkb:Объединённое_государственное_политическое_управление
gptkbp:notableEvent Suppression of political dissent
Implementation of state terror
Oversaw Gulag system
Persecution of religious groups
gptkbp:notableLeader gptkb:Vyacheslav_Menzhinsky
gptkb:Felix_Dzerzhinsky
gptkbp:notableOperation gptkb:Industrial_Party_Trial
gptkb:Metro-Vickers_Affair
gptkb:Shakhty_Trial
gptkb:Suppression_of_Freemasons
gptkb:Suppression_of_Mensheviks
gptkb:Suppression_of_Socialist_Revolutionaries
gptkb:Suppression_of_Trotskyists
Deportations
Border security
Suppression of anti-Soviet cooperative organizations
Arrests of political opponents
Censorship enforcement
Control of labor camps
Counter-espionage
Espionage abroad
Execution of state enemies
Persecution of kulaks
Political purges
Suppression of White Army remnants
Suppression of anarchists
Suppression of anti-Soviet activities
Suppression of anti-Soviet administration
Suppression of anti-Soviet agriculture
Suppression of anti-Soviet art
Suppression of anti-Soviet cinema
Suppression of anti-Soviet communication
Suppression of anti-Soviet construction
Suppression of anti-Soviet cultural organizations
Suppression of anti-Soviet education
Suppression of anti-Soviet finance
Suppression of anti-Soviet industry
Suppression of anti-Soviet labor unions
Suppression of anti-Soviet law
Suppression of anti-Soviet literature
Suppression of anti-Soviet medicine
Suppression of anti-Soviet military
Suppression of anti-Soviet music
Suppression of anti-Soviet peasant organizations
Suppression of anti-Soviet philosophy
Suppression of anti-Soviet propaganda
Suppression of anti-Soviet religion
Suppression of anti-Soviet religious organizations
Suppression of anti-Soviet science
Suppression of anti-Soviet social organizations
Suppression of anti-Soviet sports
Suppression of anti-Soviet technology
Suppression of anti-Soviet theater
Suppression of anti-Soviet trade
Suppression of anti-Soviet transport
Suppression of anti-Soviet women's organizations
Suppression of anti-Soviet youth organizations
Suppression of banditry
Suppression of black market
Suppression of clergy
Suppression of counter-revolutionaries
Suppression of economic crimes
Suppression of espionage
Suppression of foreign spies
Suppression of illegal border crossings
Suppression of illegal organizations
Suppression of monarchists
Suppression of nationalist movements
Suppression of peasant uprisings
Suppression of religious sects
Suppression of sabotage
Suppression of smuggling
Suppression of terrorism
Suppression of underground press
Surveillance of foreign nationals
Suppression of anti-Soviet scientific organizations
Suppression of anti-Soviet educational organizations
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:Council_of_People's_Commissars
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Cheka
gptkbp:successor gptkb:NKVD
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Soviet_collectivization
gptkb:Cheka
gptkb:NKVD
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5