Joint State Political Directorate

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The Joint State Political Directorate was the Soviet Union’s secret police and intelligence agency in the 1920s, overseeing political repression, security, and surveillance before being reorganized into the NKVD.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf intelligence agency ⓘ
secret police organization ⓘ
state security agency ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction Soviet Union ⓘ
controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
country Soviet Union ⓘ
dissolved 1934 ⓘ
fieldOfWork border security ⓘ
counterintelligence ⓘ
domestic intelligence ⓘ
foreign intelligence ⓘ
political repression ⓘ
secret police operations ⓘ
state security ⓘ
surveillance ⓘ
hasPart border troops of the OGPU ⓘ
secret political police units ⓘ
headquartersLocation Moscow ⓘ
ideology Marxism–Leninism ⓘ
inception 1923 ⓘ
jurisdiction Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ⓘ
linked to: Soviet Union
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Russian SFSR ⓘ
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ⓘ
linked to: Russian SFSR
namedAfter State Political Directorate ⓘ
nativeName Объединённое государственное политическое управление ⓘ
nativeNameLanguage Russian ⓘ
notableWork administration of Gulag system in its early form ⓘ
counterrevolutionary investigations ⓘ
implementation of political purges in the 1920s ⓘ
suppression of political opposition ⓘ
surveillance of Soviet citizens ⓘ
operatedInTimePeriod interwar period ⓘ
parentOrganization Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union ⓘ
partOf Soviet intelligence community ⓘ
Soviet security apparatus ⓘ
predecessor Cheka ⓘ
State Political Directorate (GPU) ⓘ
replacedBy Main Directorate of State Security ⓘ
shortName OGPU ⓘ
linked to: GPU
significantEvent expansion of Soviet intelligence operations abroad ⓘ
integration into NKVD in 1934 ⓘ
subordinateTo Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union ⓘ
successor NKVD ⓘ
People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ
usedMethod arbitrary arrest ⓘ
forced labor camps ⓘ
political trials ⓘ
secret surveillance ⓘ

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GPU → successor → Joint State Political Directorate ⓘ
VChK → replacedBy → State Political Directorate ⓘ
linked to: Joint State Political Directorate
Extraordinary Commission → replacedBy → State Political Directorate ⓘ
linked to: Joint State Political Directorate
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs → precededBy → Joint State Political Directorate ⓘ
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission → replacedBy → State Political Directorate ⓘ
linked to: Joint State Political Directorate