Полянский М.В.

In this article the questions of formation of boundary protection of the Soviet republic after the October revolution are considered. In 1917 the separate division of the boundary guards stopped its existence. Creation of the control system of protection of the frontier demanded decisions under the new political, economic and social conditions. The top management of RSFSR determined the way considering as new approaches in the organizations of defense and protection of the border, and the experience of previous generations. The developed circumstances formed the basis for a shift of a priority in protection of the frontier of the Soviet Russia from economic to the political. Centralization of the management, increase of the insistence and personal responsibility of the heads promoted establishment of an order on the border. The problems connected with interdepartmental dissociation of the authorities are reflected and also the ideas on its overcoming are given.

The chain of historic events that took place in Russia in 1917-1922 changed the political, economic and spiritual situation in the post-empire area. This period was characterized by the fighting of two interrelated tendencies (centrifugal and centripetal) in all spheres of the social life, including the sphere of providing military and border security. These tendencies could not but cause the appearance of new approaches to the forming of the RSFSR state border defense and the protection as well as of the other soviet republics on the territory of the former Russian Empire.

The situation on the Russia’s border after the 1917 October revolution made it necessary to start seeking new approaches to the problem of state border protection. The lack of enough practical experience in the work of commissars’ staff and inability of old specialists to organize activity under the new conditions made the Soviet administration accelerate establishing and maintaining Border Guard of the Russian Federation based on new principles, that helped to fight confusion, chaos and lawlessness, and at the same time to provide order in the border areas of the republic.