General-Major A. M. Pospeev: Pages of Official Activity

Abstract

The publication is a study of General-Major A. M. Pospeev, consistently served in the Russian Imperial Army, in Soviet institutions, the Red Army, the two anti-Bolshevik armies east of Russia and then again in the Red Army. The connection of the issue considered in the article with the general historiography of the problem is presented. The basis of the source database of the study was unpublished documents of the early 1920s, stored in the funds of the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region and the archive of the Directorate of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Omsk Region (they were first identified by the author of the work). Among them, the most informational potential for this study is the track record and the investigation documentation of the Soviet state security agencies. Thanks to these sources, the ambiguous biography of A. M. Pospeev was reconstructed, as far as possible, in detail. This publication may be of interest to a wide range of readers — researchers of the military history of Russia, Soviet society, the repressive policy of the Soviet state, as well as for specialists in the field of practical genealogy.