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Purges of the governmental apparatus became one of the character phenomena of the soviet society in the 1920-es. They acted as a part of the transformation of society by eliminating “class alien” employees from the soviet service. The aim of this study is to estimate a purges scale and to identify how decisions on the “former people” fate were made. The problem is studied on the example of Vladimir region. Research is based on the documents from Vladimir state archive. These documents reflect the implementation an...