Reforming the law enforcement system in the USSR under N.S. Khrushchev and its reflection by Soviet intelligentsia in film art

This article is devoted to the analysis of the results of reforming the system of law enforcement agencies of the USSR under N. S. Khrushchev, as well as to the understanding of their image by the Soviet intelligentsia in film art. The study expands our knowledge of how the key institutions of the Stalinist socio-political regime (security and law enforcement agencies, judicial and penitentiary systems, as well as the Armed Forces) were dismantled and modernized in 1953-1964. and what kind of their image was constructed by the Soviet creative intelligentsia in cinema, which had a broad impact on the mass consciousness of Soviet people. The study is methodologically based on the provisions of institutional theory, the theory of bureaucracy, the theory of civil-military relations and the theory of the new class. The analysis carried out in the work allows us to conclude that the preservation of the system of party leadership of law enforcement agencies, mechanisms for the nomenklatura placement of management personnel and the command-administrative model of management determined the incomplete nature of the modernization of the system of ensuring national security and law enforcement under N. S. Khrushchev. The contradictory nature of Soviet security institutions, in which patriotism and decency coexisted with betrayal and lawlessness, is reflected in cinema.