The system of sanctions for desertion in the RSFSR in 1919-1921 (based on the materials of the Chelyabinsk province)

The article examines various measures of responsibility for desertion, evasion of mobilizations and complicity in the final stage of the Civil War. Based on the analysis of archival documents and emergency regulations, certain types of punishments and the practice of their application in the fight against desertion are considered. Statistical data on districts, counties and provinces are provided to assess the scale of repression in the region. The problems of the qualification of acts, the implementation of justice by the tribunal justice, special administrative bodies and local peculiarities of the appointment and execution of punishments at different administrative and territorial levels are revealed. The conclusions based on a broad analysis of punitive policy allow us to assess the fight against desertion in the complex, its impact on the development of state institutions, the formation of the legal system and social relations in Soviet Russia, specifying regional specifics.