Joint State Political Directorate

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intelligence agency secret police organization state security agency

The Joint State Political Directorate was the Soviet Union’s secret police and intelligence agency in the 1920s, overseeing political repression, security, and surveillance before being reorganized into the NKVD.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
State Political Directorate	2
Joint State Political Directorate canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	intelligence agency ⓘ secret police organization ⓘ state security agency ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	Soviet Union ⓘ
controlledBy	Communist Party of the Soviet Union ⓘ
country	Soviet Union ⓘ
dissolved	1934 ⓘ
fieldOfWork	border security ⓘ counterintelligence ⓘ domestic intelligence ⓘ foreign intelligence ⓘ political repression ⓘ secret police operations ⓘ state security ⓘ surveillance ⓘ
hasPart	border troops of the OGPU ⓘ secret political police units ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Moscow ⓘ
ideology	Marxism–Leninism ⓘ
inception	1923 ⓘ
jurisdiction	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ONNED1 ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Russian SFSR ⓘ Russian SFSR ⓘ surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
namedAfter	Main Directorate of State Security ⓘ surface form: State Political Directorate
nativeName	Государственное политическое управление ⓘ surface form: Объединённое государственное политическое управление
nativeNameLanguage	Russian ⓘ
notableWork	administration of Gulag system in its early form ⓘ counterrevolutionary investigations ⓘ implementation of political purges in the 1920s ⓘ suppression of political opposition ⓘ surveillance of Soviet citizens ⓘ
operatedInTimePeriod	interwar period ⓘ
parentOrganization	Council of People's Commissars ⓘ surface form: Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union
partOf	Soviet intelligence community ⓘ Soviet secret police ⓘ surface form: Soviet security apparatus
predecessor	Cheka ⓘ Soviet secret police ⓘ surface form: State Political Directorate (GPU)
replacedBy	Main Directorate of State Security ⓘ
shortName	GPU ⓘ surface form: OGPU
significantEvent	expansion of Soviet intelligence operations abroad ⓘ integration into NKVD in 1934 ⓘ
subordinateTo	Council of People's Commissars ⓘ surface form: Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union
successor	NKVD ⓘ People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ⓘ surface form: People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs
usedMethod	arbitrary arrest ⓘ forced labor camps ⓘ political trials ⓘ secret surveillance ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

GPU → successor → Joint State Political Directorate ⓘ

VChK → replacedBy → Joint State Political Directorate ⓘ

this entity surface form: State Political Directorate

Extraordinary Commission → replacedBy → Joint State Political Directorate ⓘ

this entity surface form: State Political Directorate