Keyword: «militia»

The author deals with the historical aspect of the protection of public order and the fight against crime in the most difficult period in the history of Russia – the establishment of Bolshevik power and complete scrapping the existing law enforcement apparatus. He analyzes the problem of creating Soviet law enforcement agencies in the Tyumen region.

The article discusses two interconnected issues related to the activities of the militia in the period after the end of the Great Patriotic War in the USSR (1945-1953). The first part deals with the relationship between the internal affairs bodies and local party organizations that criticized militia for unsatisfactory fight against crime. One of the most important explanations for this situation was an acute personnel problem that had developed due to well-known reasons (the war factor). The second part of the article is devoted to this problem.