Evolution of the legal status of the Soviet secret services in the context of the New Economic Policy

The article examines the changes in the legal status of the special services in the context of the country's transition from war to peace, from the policy of war communism to the New Economic Policy (NEP). When analyzing changes, the authors strive to identify the influence of not only internal factors, but also external ones. At the same time, they take into account the inconsistency and uncertainty of the era of the 1920 s, which inevitably required a compromise between the opposing sides, strengthening the general social (universal) orientation in the activities of various state structures. At the same time, such a subjective factor as the inertia of the methods of civil war in the activities of the ruling party, the severity of internal social contradictions, the threat of new intervention put the struggle for stability in the first place, countering destructive, destructive elements that threaten the security of the state, that is, manifestations of the class approach.