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Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov Papers http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7p3005qh No online items Preliminary Inventory to the Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov papers Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Hoover Institution Library and Archives © 1999 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6003 [email protected] URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives Preliminary Inventory to the 38003 1 Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov papers Title: Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov papers Date (inclusive): 1918-1933 Collection Number: 38003 Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Language of Material: Russian Physical Description: 17 manuscript boxes(7.0 Linear Feet) Abstract: Clippings, writings, correspondence and reports, relating to the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and the operations of the Soviet secret police. Also available on microfilm. Creator: Melʹgunov, S. P. (Sergeĭ Petrovich), 1879-1956 Hoover Institution Library & Archives Access The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Subjects and Indexing Terms Secret service -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 Civil rights -- Soviet Union Agabekov, Georgiĭ Sergeevich Dzerzhinskiĭ, F. Ė (Feliks Ėdmundovich), 1877-1926 Russian S.F.S.R.. Chrezvychaĭnai͡a komissii͡a po borʹbe s kontr-revoli͡ut͡sieĭ i sabotazhem Soviet Union. Obʺedinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie Individual Accounts of Witnesses and Victims 1918-1920 box 1, folder 1 "In the Bolshevik Hospital, Petrograd, by V. G. Orzhekhovsky 1918-1919 " 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, by K. Marov Bishop Mitrofan of the Don reports on his arrest 1920," 1918 box 1, folder 2 "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." box 1, folder 3 Notes on Butyrka Prison. Clippings box 1, folder 4 Soviet and non-Soviet papers 1918-1919. box 1, folder 5 Terroristic measures after the attempt on Soviet officials in Lenot'evskii Per., Moscow 1919 box 1, folder 6 Communist arguments re Cheka 1918-1919 box 1, folder 7 Miscellaneous 1919 Preliminary Inventory to the 38003 2 Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov papers box 1, folder 8-9 Terror and executions 1920-1921. box 2, folder 10 Trials and executions 1921-1923 box 2, Arrests, trials, executions 1924 folder 11-12 box 2, folder 13 Arrests, trials, executions 1925. box 2, folder 14 Arrests, trials, executions 1926 box 3, folder 15 Arrests, trials, executions 1926 box 3, Arrests, trials, executions 1927 folder 16-18 box 4, Donbass trials 1928 folder 19-20 box 4, folder 21 Donbass trials 1928 Volfman's trial 1928 Political prisoners, executions 1928 box 4, folder 22 Opposition, arrests, trials, executions, espionage abroad 1929. box 4, folder 23 Cheka 1918-1927 Cheka box 4, folder 24 "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 Preliminary Inventory to the 38003 3 Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov papers box 4, folder 25 Events in Kiev and Ukraine 1918-1927 box 4, folder 26 Statistical data on executions 1918-1927 Clippings box 5, folder 27 Cheka members box 5, folder 28 Cheka 1919-1930 box 5, folder 29 Cheka anniversaries (five, ten, thirteen years). box 5, folder 30 Cheka 1919-1929 box 5, Felix Dzierzynski folder 31-32 box 6, folder 33 Articles on OGPU by G. Agabekov from Poslednie Novosti 1930 box 6, folder 34 "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 box 6, folder 35 Georges Agabekov box 6, Chekist Albert Pirro folder 36-37 box 6, folder 38 Recollections on imprisonment 1918-1925 box 7, folder 39 G.P.U. 1919-1927 box 7, folder 40 "One week at the mercy of the G.P.U.," by Pavel Dolgorukov, Rul' 1924 G.P.U. box 7, folder 41 "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 box 7, folder 42 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 box 7, folder 43 "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 box 7, folder 44 "Five Years in Soviet Prisons," by Said Kureishi from Poslednie Novosti 1927 Clippings box 7, folder 45 Cheka 1920-1924 box 7, folder 46 Recollections on imprisonment 1921-1929 box 8, folder 47 Insurrection, prisons, executions 1925 box 8, folder 48 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, with Russian translation August 2, 1922, Two bulletins of the Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia, Berlin 1925, 1926 Preliminary Inventory to the 38003 4 Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov papers Chronicle of persecution in Soviet Russia. Non-periodical bulletin, Berlin, Nos. 1, 2 1924, Chronik de Verfolgungen in Sowjetrussland, Berlin 1924 Clippings from various newspapers 1921-1924 Clippings box 9, folder 49 "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 box 9, folder 50 Solovki 1924-1930 box 9, folder 51 "Dreadful Years," by Said Kureisha in Rul', "Taganka, Solovki, Butyrka," by Said Kureisha in Slovo, December 1926 box 9, folder 52 "Peterburg - Solovki, Parizh," by S. Snezhevskii from Dni 1927 "Solovki - Island of Torture and Death," by Mal'sagov in Segodnia 1925 box 9, folder 53 Bolshevik secret service and espionage 1921-1930. Maurice Conradi's Trial box 10, folder 54 Various documents 1923 box 10, Clippings folder 55-60 Vorovskii's Assassination box 10, folder 61 Clippings from Soviet Press Investigation of Bolshevik Atrocities box 11, folder 62 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 box 11, folder 63 Reports of special commission Clippings box 11, folder 64 Foreigners on Soviet terror 1920-1928 box 11, folder 65 "In the Clutches of the Cheka," from Vozrozhdenie August-September 1928 box 11, folder 66 "Testimony of witnesses," Nikolaevsk na Amure 1920 "Soviet Exile," by D. Viatkin, Volia Rosii, box 11, folder 67 Red Terror 1920-1930 box 11, folder 68 On A.
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