Repressive methods of the authorities influence upon the creative intelligentsia in 1930's (according to I. S. Sibiryak's memories)

The article is devoted to the exceptionally topical problem - the problem of interrelations of the authority and the creative intelligentsia in the historically important period of 1930s. The author examines repressive methods of the influence of the authority upon the intelligentsia on basis of memories by the contemporary and participant in those events - I.S.Sibiryak - the important historian and well-known Soviet and party worker. Special attention in the article is paid to the deformation of psyche and world-outlook of a person who fell the hearth of the millstone of repressive mechanism.