Preliminary Inventory to the Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov Papers, 1918-1933
Preliminary Inventory to the Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov Papers, 1918-1933
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Container List
Individual Accounts of Witnesses and Victims, 1918-1920
"In the Bolshevik Hospital, Petrograd, 1918-1919," by V. G. Orzhekhovsky, 1925.
"Kronstadt events in June-July, 1919," by Iu. Zubelevich.
"Red and White Terror," by A. T. Kuznetsov, Member of the Constituent Assembly from the Ural Region.
"Rumors and legends" (On Bolshevik stay in Kiev)
Bulletin of the Central Committee of the Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries, April 1919
"In Yaroslav prison, 1920," by K. Marov Bishop Mitrofan of the Don reports on his arrest, 1918
"Two days in the Simferopol Cheka."
"Lubianka 14-10," by G. V.
"Torture on the Moscow Bench," handwritten copy in Latvian from Brihwa Seme, No. 71, March 31, 1921
Account by American citizen Kalamiano: "In Butyrka prison, 1920."
"Analysis of Bolshevik terror," by M. I.
"In Bolshevik torture-chamber," by S. Vl-v.
Letter on certain "Ozolin."
"Chrezvychaika."
Notes on Butyrka Prison.
Clippings
Soviet and non-Soviet papers, 1918-1919.
Terroristic measures after the attempt on Soviet officials in Lenot'evskii Per., Moscow, 1919
Communist arguments re Cheka, 1918-1919
Miscellaneous, 1919
Terror and executions, 1920-1921.
Trials and executions, 1921-1923
Arrests, trials, executions, 1924
Arrests, trials, executions, 1925.
Arrests, trials, executions, 1926
Arrests, trials, executions, 1926
Arrests, trials, executions, 1927
Donbass trials, 1928
Donbass trials, 1928
Volfman's trial, 1928
Political prisoners, executions, 1928
Opposition, arrests, trials, executions, espionage abroad, 1929.
Cheka, 1918-1927
Cheka
"Codification of Red Terror," article by Al. Makletsov.
"Political trials in the USSR," compiled by Ia. S. G- ch.
Resolution of the 3rd Regional Congress of Representatives, Guliaipole... and others, April 10, 1919
"Reign of Terror in Russia," manuscript by S. Melgunov, May 15, 1925
"Red Terror in Russia," manuscript by S. Melgunov.
"Ado Bizk," manuscript
"Execution of English officer Sidney Reilly," manuscript
Report of the Inspection Committee about the Cheka's Places of Detention in Poltava, manuscript signed by Dr. Mashevskii
Letter from Fedorchuk to Petrovskii, May 23, 1919
Statement by a member of the Central Executive Committee and Secretary of the Kiev Executive Committee addressed to the Cheka, April 8, 1919
Political Red Cross statement to the Presidium, 1921
Minutes of a Cheka meeting, July 25, 1919
Recollections of N. P. and U. S. Savitskii and M. V. Chernosvidov on arrival of Bolsheviks to Chernigov, January 23, 1918
Report No. 374 of Information Section, Head-quarters, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army: Situation in Turkestan, Feb. 9, 1921
Excerpt from "Sotsialisticheskii Vestnik," No. 8, May 20, 1921
Report No. 563 from General Miller to Ambassador in Arkhangel'sk, April 19, 1919
"Kalinin and the G.P.U.," No 22
Authorization of the Foreign Communists-Bolsheviks to search foreign consulates, signed by Fisher, May 26, 1919
Kharkov Prison file on Mrs. D. A. Baeva
Death sentence of Aleksandr Grigorevich Bulygin, Riazanskie Izv. No. 201, Sept. 7, 1919
Left Socialist Revolutionaries in Bolshevik prisons, Bulletin No. 4, April, 1919
Activity of V.Ch.K. train in Voronezh Voronezhskie Izvestiia, No. 179 (484), August 12, 1919
Appeal to fight the enemies of the revolution, Kievskie Izvestiia, No. 99, July 24, 1919
Letters to Melgunov
Anna Nikulina, Bosna, Vlasenica, March 5, 1924
Baroness D. Foelckersam, February 23, 1924
F. Rostovtsev
"In Chernigov," recollections of E. D. Kuskova
"In Crimea," typewritten reports
"In cities and villages," Bulletin of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, No. 6, May 1919
"Ukrainian Cheka," typewritten report
"Kiev," investigation of the Rerberg Commission, manuscript
Events in Kiev and Ukraine, 1918-1927
Statistical data on executions, 1918-1927
Clippings
Cheka members
Cheka, 1919-1930
Cheka anniversaries (five, ten, thirteen years).
Cheka, 1919-1929
Felix Dzierzynski
Articles on OGPU by G. Agabekov from Poslednie Novosti, 1930
"Death Camps," by Kiselev in Rul', 1931
"Work and Ways of the GPU," in Vozrozhenie, 1926
Confessions of GPU agent Nikolai Bezpalov in Volia Rossii, 1924
Georges Agabekov
Chekist Albert Pirro
Recollections on imprisonment, 1918-1925
G.P.U., 1919-1927
"One week at the mercy of the G.P.U.," by Pavel Dolgorukov, Rul', 1924
G.P.U.
"O.G.P.U.," manuscript fy a former Chekist
Opperput's testimony on secret agencies.
Relations between NKID-GPU-Comintern
List of secret agents known to Opperput
Organization of the G.P.U.
Methods of operation
"Reorganization of the G.P.U.," from Poslednie Novosti
Clippings
Amensty for political prisoners on the 5th anniversary of the revolution
Persecution and trials of Social-Democrats, 1920-22
Articles
"Wandering," by Gr. Aronson
"Notes of a prison warden," Gr. Aronson
Cheka
"Rare document," with commentary by A. Kuprin from Obshchee delo, November 7, 1921
Clippings on annulment of capital punishment, 1920
Clippings on local governments against Red Terror, 1918
Directives to local Cheka, December 1, 1918
Circular No. 2534 to all railroad and water transport Cheka commissions, June 11, 1919
"Five Years in Soviet Prisons," by Said Kureishi from Poslednie Novosti, 1927
Clippings
Cheka, 1920-1924
Recollections on imprisonment, 1921-1929
Insurrection, prisons, executions, 1925
Public Protest Against Terror
Letter from Roger Baldwin (Director, American Liberties Union) to Berkman. Translation from English to Russian, September 8, 1924
Questionnaire for former political prisoners
Mémorandum présenté par la délégation du Parti socialiste révolutionnaire à l'étranger au Congrès des trois unions internationales des partis socialistes et communistes, April 2, 1922
Appel au proletariat mondial, August 2, 1922, with Russian translation
Two bulletins of the Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia, Berlin, 1925, 1926
Chronicle of persecution in Soviet Russia. Non-periodical bulletin, Berlin, 1924, Nos. 1, 2
Chronik de Verfolgungen in Sowjetrussland, Berlin, 1924
Clippings from various newspapers, 1921-1924
Clippings
"Without Freedom," by A. Argunov from Na Chuzhoi Storone
"Four days in Lubianka," by I. Zakharin from Na Chuzhoi Storone
"Lubianka," by Nikolai Bezpalo from Volia Rossii
"Zalozhnik," by N. V. L'vov
Solovki, 1924-1930
"Dreadful Years," by Said Kureisha in Rul', "Taganka, Solovki, Butyrka," by Said Kureisha in Slovo, December 1926
"Peterburg - Solovki, Parizh," by S. Snezhevskii from Dni, 1927
"Solovki - Island of Torture and Death," by Mal'sagov in Segodnia, 1925
Bolshevik secret service and espionage, 1921-1930.
Maurice Conradi's Trial
Various documents, 1923
Clippings
Vorovskii's Assassination
Clippings from Soviet Press
Investigation of Bolshevik Atrocities
Establishment of a special commission
Rules and regulations of the special commision
Programme concerning activities of the special commission
List of photographs (photos not included)
List of findings
Testimonies of witnesses
Articles from Na Chuzhoi Storone
Reports of special commission
Clippings
Foreigners on Soviet terror, 1920-1928
"In the Clutches of the Cheka," from Vozrozhdenie, August-September 1928
"Testimony of witnesses," Nikolaevsk na Amure, 1920
"Soviet Exile," by D. Viatkin, Volia Rosii,
Red Terror, 1920-1930
On A. Pirro, P. Stuchka, Dzerzhinskii, Gen. N. V. Ruzskii, Prince Pavel Aleksandrovich, V. P. Mukhin
V. Brunovski case
Insurrections in Kronstadt, Karelia, Amur Events in Crimea, Caucasus, Ukraine
Izvestia, June 24, June 26, August 29, 1919
"Notes of a former Soviet Lawyer," by E. Nagel' in Poslednie Novosti, 1933
"Peterburg-Solovki-Parizh," by V. Svezhevskii in Dni, 1928
"Reminiscences of Princess S. A. Volkonskii," by N. Chebyshev, reviewing Gore Pobezhdenym, 1933
"His Serene Highness Appearing Before the Chairman of the Cheka," by R. Vel'skii reviewing Gore Pobezhdenym, 1933
"Escape of Princess Palei," by A. Lidin from Slovo, 1920
"Interrogation," short story by A. Kuprin from Vozrozhdenie, 1930
Individual accounts of witnesses and victims, 1929-1935
Illustrated Bolshevism, published by Dvuglavyi Orel, 1922 "Appeal to the American People," Paris, November 7, 1930
Chronicle of Red terror from Bor'ba za Rossiiu
Clippings
Chekists (Dzerzhinskii, Menzhinskii, others)
Accounts of Red terror by foreigners, 1928-1933
Accounts of former Chekists, 1926-1932
Clippings on arrests, trials, executions, 1918-1930
Report by Iu. Kluchnikov to the Russian Political Conference in Paris when he was no longer in charge of the Omsk Foreign Ministry, June 2, 1919. Deals with the Ufa Directorate, Kolchak cou d'etat, Kolchak government, etc.
Telegrams between anti-Bolshevik political leaders concerning policy on former Russian borderlands, January-December 1919
Political conference in Paris, unsigned reports and letters on the anti-Bolshevik Russian policies with regard to national minorities (Baltic States and Belorussia).
Savinkov and others on Polish problem, 1920
Attitude of the Allies. Interview in Kiev
Manuscript on the Ukranian question by the Delegation of the Political Conference, Paris, September 1, 1921
Letter from Gen. Boldyrev to Chaikovsky on the situation in Siberia, March 26, 1919
Letter to S. S. Maslov to Chaikovsky, November 3, 1918
Telegram to Russian representative in Copenhagen from the Provisional Russian Government formed on September 23, 1918, on organization and work of the new government, October 2, 1918
Kolchak Government official telegrams on military and political problems in Siberia, December 1918 - December 1919
Memorandum by S. I. Morozov on organization of revolt against Bolsheviks in Siberia on May-June 1918 and on organization of Siberian government September 12, 1918
Memorandum to Admiral Kolchak from Allied and Associated Powers; Kolchak's reply, July 1, 1919
"Kolchak's Crime," manuscript by Aleksandr Goibarg, Head of the Department of Justice of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee
Declaration of the Provisional Government, 1918
Report on circumstances connected with the deportation of five members of the Provisional Government to Solovki, September 5-6, 1918. Chaplin's coup d'etat.
On the upheaval in Arkhangel'sk, 1918
Official correspondence (mostly telegrams) of the Provisional Government. September 1918-October 1919
Excerpts from minutes of the March 26, 1919 session of the Provisional Government
Chaikovsky correspondence re northern region
Correspondence between Gen. Miller and Sazonov, March-April 1920 re winding up the northern campaign and future plans following defeat
Gaida's revolt in Vladivostok.
Informatsionnyi listok, illegally published by the Union for the Regeneration of Russia, August 1918
Nikolai V. Chaikovsky correspondence with Ekaterina K. Breshko-Breshkovskaia
Nikolai V. Chaikovsky's correspondence
Nikolai V. Chaikovsky's speeches
Va. A. Bakhmetev, former ambassador to the U.S. (under Kerensky) on U.S. attitude toward anti-Bolshevik movement, October 21, 1919
V. A. Bakhmetev on policies to be pursued in anti-Bolshevik movement, March 18, 1919
"First Anniversary of the Kronstadt Garrison Mutiny," Krasnaiia Gorka, by M. N. Nekliudov, Summer 1919
Translated excerpt from M. Merts' Sagies Latwija'., Riga 1925.
Donskoi Krai, No. 12, May 5 (18), 1918. Organ of the Provisional Government of the Don. Contains article "The Germans in the Ukraine."
Vestnik Vremmenogo Pravitelstva Severnoi Oblasti. Newspaper published in Arkhangelsk, December 17, 1918; January 1, 1919; September-October 1919 (incomplete)
A. A. Neratov, telegrams, 1919
Copy of the Resolution of the Extraordinary Kuban Regional Rada (Council), November 11, 1918
Declaration of the Don Voisko Krug (Parliament), June 1, 1919 on future Russia as a democratic country
Copy of Report on Cossak uprising in the Upper Don Region against Bolsheviks, spring 1919
Minutes of the Supreme Krug (Parliament) of the Don, Kuban, and Terek regions, January 1920
Declaration of the democratic groups in South Russia, January 29, 1920
Statement in French re formation of a new democratic government in South Russia
Provisional Land Law Project of the government in South Russia, February 24, 1920. Drafted by Pavel Ageev.
Report of events in the last days of the Council of Ministers of the government in South Russia, April 6-9, 1920
Letters to Nikolai Chaikovsky on the situation in South Russia, 1919-1921
Appeals of the Russian delegation in Yassy to Allied powers, November 1918
Memorandum (in French) presented to Allied governments by the National and Democratic Russian Bloc on aid to Russia by Allied powers and the United States
Kerensky's activities and impressions abroad in connection with the Allies' attitude to the Russian anti-Bolshevik cause, 1918. Letters, telegrams, etc.
Documents of the Russian Political Conference and of the political delegation representing Russian anti-Bolshevik governments before the Allies in Paris, 1918-1919.
British attitude to the Russian anti-Bolshevik cause, 1919
Chaikovsky's correspondence re French and British attitude to Russian anti-Bolshevik cause, 1919
Chaikovsky's memorandum to Clemenceau on Russian anti-Bolshevik cause, 1918; and Chaikovsky to President of the Council of Great Britain.
Extract from a letter to Mr. Paul Boyer, June 21, 1918 (in French)
Speech by Menard-Dorian, May 6, 1919 (in French)
Reports from prison, 1912
Clippings
Mensheviks, 1930-1931
Uprising in Siberia, 1925-1931
Various trials, 1927
Trials of Kondrat'ev, Groman, others, 1930-1931
Execution of the "48," 1930
Reprisals against the Chekists, 1925-1932
Shakhtinskii trial, 1928
Trial of the "Industrial Party," 1927-1930
Events in Moscow, 1925-1931
Events in St. Petersburg, 1925-1927
Events in the Ukraine, 1925-1931
Events in RSFSR, 1925-1930
Events in the Caucasus, 1925-1933
Events in Turkestan and the Urals, 1925-1932
GPU abroad, 1921-1933
Russian Chekists in Romania, 1932
GPU methods, trials, executions, 1931
GPU, 1932
Trial of I. Shtern, 1932
Fugitives from the U.S.S.R., 1932
Prisons and exiles, 1932
Executions, 1932-1933
Red terror, 1934
Gen. A. P. Kutepov affair, 1930
Arrests, trials, executions, etc., 1926
Arrests, prisons, exiles, 1928-1929
Opposition to Cheka, 1928-1929
Executions, 1928-1930
Fugitives from the U.S.S.R., 1930
GPU, 1930
Protests in Western Europe, 1930
Exiles, 1930
Executions, 1931
Prisons, exiles, trials of saboteurs, 1931
Trials of saboteurs, 1932-1934
Arrests, exiles, trials of saboteures, 1933
Trial of British saboteurs, 1933
Trials and executions after Kirov's assassination, 1934
Executions, prisons, exiles after Kirov's assassination, 1935
Executions, prisons, exiles, 1936
Trials of Trotskyists-Zinovievists, 1936
Trials, executions, etc., 1937
Trial of the "17," 1936-1937