The Far Eastern Railway in the 1930s Relations and Reactions to the Repressions in the USSR

This article evaluates the relationship among the railroad staff of the Far East during the most dramatic events in the political life of the country at that time-repressions. As a rule, Russian academic literature indicates that few workers perceived the Soviet state's mechanisms of pressure negatively. This article demonstrates that the railroad staff's position was far more diverse than traditionally argued, which is a result of the broad variety of social groups working for the railroad in the Far East. The article demonstrates this diversity of opinions by focusing on those events that affected a significant number of railroad workers.