Preliminary Inventory to the Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov papers

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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
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains clippings, writings, correspondence and reports, relating to the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and the operations of the Soviet secret police. Includes individual accounts of witnesses and victims.

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.

box 1, folder 1

"Kronstadt events in June-July, 1919," by Iu. Zubelevich.

box 1, folder 1

"Red and White Terror," by A. T. Kuznetsov, Member of the Constituent Assembly from the Ural Region.

box 1, folder 1

"Rumors and legends" (On Bolshevik stay in Kiev)

box 1, folder 1

Bulletin of the Central Committee of the Party of Left Socialist Revolutionaries April 1919

box 1, folder 1

"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."

box 1, folder 2

"Lubianka 14-10," by G. V.

box 1, folder 2

"Torture on the Moscow Bench," handwritten copy in Latvian from Brihwa Seme, No. 71 March 31, 1921

box 1, folder 2

Account by American citizen Kalamiano: "In Butyrka prison 1920."

box 1, folder 2

"Analysis of Bolshevik terror," by M. I.

box 1, folder 2

"In Bolshevik torture-chamber," by S. Vl-v.

box 1, folder 2

Letter on certain "Ozolin."

box 1, folder 2

"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

box 1, folder 8-9

Terror and executions 1920-1921.

box 2, folder 10

Trials and executions 1921-1923

box 2, folder 11-12

Arrests, trials, executions 1924

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, folder 16-18

Arrests, trials, executions 1927

box 4, folder 19-20

Donbass trials 1928

box 4, folder 21

Donbass trials 1928

box 4, folder 21

Volfman's trial 1928

box 4, folder 21

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.

box 4, folder 24

"Political trials in the USSR," compiled by Ia. S. G- ch.

box 4, folder 24

Resolution of the 3rd Regional Congress of Representatives, Guliaipole... and others April 10, 1919

box 4, folder 24

"Reign of Terror in Russia," manuscript by S. Melgunov May 15, 1925

box 4, folder 24

"Red Terror in Russia," manuscript by S. Melgunov.

box 4, folder 24

"Ado Bizk," manuscript

box 4, folder 24

"Execution of English officer Sidney Reilly," manuscript

box 4, folder 24

Report of the Inspection Committee about the Cheka's Places of Detention in Poltava, manuscript signed by Dr. Mashevskii

box 4, folder 24

Letter from Fedorchuk to Petrovskii May 23, 1919

box 4, folder 24

Statement by a member of the Central Executive Committee and Secretary of the Kiev Executive Committee addressed to the Cheka April 8, 1919

box 4, folder 24

Political Red Cross statement to the Presidium 1921

box 4, folder 24

Minutes of a Cheka meeting July 25, 1919

box 4, folder 24

Recollections of N. P. and U. S. Savitskii and M. V. Chernosvidov on arrival of Bolsheviks to Chernigov January 23, 1918

box 4, folder 24

Report No. 374 of Information Section, Head-quarters, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army: Situation in Turkestan Feb. 9, 1921

box 4, folder 24

Excerpt from "Sotsialisticheskii Vestnik," No. 8 May 20, 1921

box 4, folder 24

Report No. 563 from General Miller to Ambassador in Arkhangel'sk April 19, 1919

box 4, folder 24

"Kalinin and the G.P.U.," No 22

box 4, folder 24

Authorization of the Foreign Communists-Bolsheviks to search foreign consulates, signed by Fisher May 26, 1919

box 4, folder 24

Kharkov Prison file on Mrs. D. A. Baeva

box 4, folder 24

Death sentence of Aleksandr Grigorevich Bulygin, Riazanskie Izv. No. 201 Sept. 7, 1919

box 4, folder 24

Left Socialist Revolutionaries in Bolshevik prisons, Bulletin No. 4 April 1919

box 4, folder 24

Activity of V.Ch.K. train in Voronezh Voronezhskie Izvestiia, No. 179 (484) August 12, 1919

box 4, folder 24

Appeal to fight the enemies of the revolution, Kievskie Izvestiia, No. 99 July 24, 1919

 

Letters to Melgunov

box 4, folder 24

Anna Nikulina, Bosna, Vlasenica March 5, 1924

box 4, folder 24

Baroness D. Foelckersam February 23, 1924

box 4, folder 24

F. Rostovtsev

box 4, folder 24

"In Chernigov," recollections of E. D. Kuskova

box 4, folder 24

"In Crimea," typewritten reports

box 4, folder 24

"In cities and villages," Bulletin of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, No. 6 May 1919

box 4, folder 24

"Ukrainian Cheka," typewritten report

box 4, folder 24

"Kiev," investigation of the Rerberg Commission, manuscript

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, folder 31-32

Felix Dzierzynski

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

box 6, folder 34

"Work and Ways of the GPU," in Vozrozhenie 1926

box 6, folder 34

Confessions of GPU agent Nikolai Bezpalov in Volia Rossii 1924

box 6, folder 35

Georges Agabekov

box 6, folder 36-37

Chekist Albert Pirro

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

box 7, folder 41

Opperput's testimony on secret agencies.

box 7, folder 41

Relations between NKID-GPU-Comintern

box 7, folder 41

List of secret agents known to Opperput

box 7, folder 41

Organization of the G.P.U.

box 7, folder 41

Methods of operation

box 7, folder 41

"Reorganization of the G.P.U.," from Poslednie Novosti

 

Clippings

box 7, folder 42

Amensty for political prisoners on the 5th anniversary of the revolution

box 7, folder 42

Persecution and trials of Social-Democrats 1920-22

 

Articles

box 7, folder 42

"Wandering," by Gr. Aronson

box 7, folder 42

"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

box 7, folder 43

Clippings on annulment of capital punishment 1920

box 7, folder 43

Clippings on local governments against Red Terror 1918

box 7, folder 43

Directives to local Cheka December 1, 1918

box 7, folder 43

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

 

Public Protest Against Terror

box 8, folder 48

Letter from Roger Baldwin (Director, American Liberties Union) to Berkman. Translation from English to Russian September 8, 1924

box 8, folder 48

Questionnaire for former political prisoners

box 8, folder 48

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

box 8, folder 48

Appel au proletariat mondial, with Russian translation August 2, 1922,

box 8, folder 48

Two bulletins of the Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia, Berlin 1925 1926

box 8, folder 48

Chronicle of persecution in Soviet Russia. Non-periodical bulletin, Berlin, Nos. 1, 2 1924

box 8, folder 48

Chronik de Verfolgungen in Sowjetrussland, Berlin 1924

box 8, folder 48

Clippings from various newspapers 1921-1924

 

Clippings

box 9, folder 49

"Without Freedom," by A. Argunov from Na Chuzhoi Storone

box 9, folder 49

"Four days in Lubianka," by I. Zakharin from Na Chuzhoi Storone

box 9, folder 49

"Lubianka," by Nikolai Bezpalo from Volia Rossii

box 9, folder 49

"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

box 9, folder 52

"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, folder 55-60

Clippings

 

Vorovskii's Assassination

box 10, folder 61

Clippings from Soviet Press

 

Investigation of Bolshevik Atrocities

box 11, folder 62

Establishment of a special commission

box 11, folder 62

Rules and regulations of the special commision

box 11, folder 62

Programme concerning activities of the special commission

box 11, folder 62

List of photographs (photos not included)

box 11, folder 62

List of findings

box 11, folder 62

Testimonies of witnesses

box 11, folder 62

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

box 11, folder 66

"Soviet Exile," by D. Viatkin, Volia Rosii,

box 11, folder 67

Red Terror 1920-1930

box 11, folder 68

On A. Pirro, P. Stuchka, Dzerzhinskii, Gen. N. V. Ruzskii, Prince Pavel Aleksandrovich, V. P. Mukhin

box 11, folder 69

V. Brunovski case

box 11, folder 69

Insurrections in Kronstadt, Karelia, Amur Events in Crimea, Caucasus, Ukraine

box 11, folder 70

Izvestia June 24, June 26, August 29, 1919

box 12, folder 71

"Notes of a former Soviet Lawyer," by E. Nagel' in Poslednie Novosti 1933

box 12, folder 71

"Peterburg-Solovki-Parizh," by V. Svezhevskii in Dni 1928

box 12, folder 71

"Reminiscences of Princess S. A. Volkonskii," by N. Chebyshev, reviewing Gore Pobezhdenym 1933

box 12, folder 71

"His Serene Highness Appearing Before the Chairman of the Cheka," by R. Vel'skii reviewing Gore Pobezhdenym 1933

box 12, folder 71

"Escape of Princess Palei," by A. Lidin from Slovo 1920

box 12, folder 71

"Interrogation," short story by A. Kuprin from Vozrozhdenie 1930

box 12, folder 72

Individual accounts of witnesses and victims 1929-1935

box 12, folder 73

Illustrated Bolshevism, published by Dvuglavyi Orel, "Appeal to the American People," Paris 1922 November 7 1930

box 12, folder 74

Chronicle of Red terror from Bor'ba za Rossiiu

 

Clippings

box 12, folder 75

Chekists (Dzerzhinskii, Menzhinskii, others)

box 12, folder 75-78

Accounts of Red terror by foreigners 1928-1933

box 12, folder 79

Accounts of former Chekists 1926-1932

box 13

Clippings on arrests, trials, executions 1918-1930

box 13

Report by Iu. Kluchnikov to the Russian Political Conference in Paris when he was no longer in charge of the Omsk Foreign Ministry, Deals with the Ufa Directorate, Kolchak cou d'etat, Kolchak government, etc. June 2, 1919.

box 13

Telegrams between anti-Bolshevik political leaders concerning policy on former Russian borderlands January-December 1919

box 13

Political conference in Paris, unsigned reports and letters on the anti-Bolshevik Russian policies with regard to national minorities (Baltic States and Belorussia).

box 13

Savinkov and others on Polish problem 1920

box 13

Attitude of the Allies. Interview in Kiev

box 13

Manuscript on the Ukranian question by the Delegation of the Political Conference, Paris September 1, 1921

box 13

Letter from Gen. Boldyrev to Chaikovsky on the situation in Siberia March 26, 1919

box 13

Letter to S. S. Maslov to Chaikovsky November 3, 1918

box 13

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

box 13

Kolchak Government official telegrams on military and political problems in Siberia December 1918 - December 1919

box 13

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

box 13

Memorandum to Admiral Kolchak from Allied and Associated Powers; Kolchak's reply July 1, 1919

box 13

"Kolchak's Crime," manuscript by Aleksandr Goibarg, Head of the Department of Justice of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee

box 13

Declaration of the Provisional Government 1918

box 13

Report on circumstances connected with the deportation of five members of the Provisional Government to Solovki, Chaplin's coup d'etat. September 5-6, 1918.

box 13

On the upheaval in Arkhangel'sk 1918

box 13

Official correspondence (mostly telegrams) of the Provisional Government. September 1918-October 1919

box 13

Excerpts from minutes of the March 26, 1919 session of the Provisional Government

box 13

Chaikovsky correspondence re northern region

box 13

Correspondence between Gen. Miller and Sazonov, re winding up the northern campaign and future plans following defeat March-April 1920

box 13

Gaida's revolt in Vladivostok.

box 13

Informatsionnyi listok, illegally published by the Union for the Regeneration of Russia August 1918

box 13

Nikolai V. Chaikovsky correspondence with Ekaterina K. Breshko-Breshkovskaia

box 13

Nikolai V. Chaikovsky's correspondence

box 13

Nikolai V. Chaikovsky's speeches

box 13

Va. A. Bakhmetev, former ambassador to the U.S. (under Kerensky) on U.S. attitude toward anti-Bolshevik movement October 21, 1919

box 13

V. A. Bakhmetev on policies to be pursued in anti-Bolshevik movement March 18, 1919

box 13

"First Anniversary of the Kronstadt Garrison Mutiny," Krasnaiia Gorka, by M. N. Nekliudov Summer 1919

box 13

Translated excerpt from M. Merts' Sagies Latwija'., Riga 1925.

box 13

Donskoi Krai, No. 12, Organ of the Provisional Government of the Don. Contains article "The Germans in the Ukraine." May 5 (18) 1918.

box 13

Vestnik Vremmenogo Pravitelstva Severnoi Oblasti. Newspaper published in Arkhangelsk, (incomplete) December 17, 1918 January 1, 1919 September-October 1919

box 14

A. A. Neratov, telegrams 1919

box 14

Copy of the Resolution of the Extraordinary Kuban Regional Rada (Council) November 11, 1918

box 14

Declaration of the Don Voisko Krug (Parliament), on future Russia as a democratic country June 1, 1919

box 14

Copy of Report on Cossak uprising in the Upper Don Region against Bolsheviks spring 1919

box 14

Minutes of the Supreme Krug (Parliament) of the Don, Kuban, and Terek regions January 1920

box 14

Declaration of the democratic groups in South Russia January 29, 1920

box 14

Statement in French re formation of a new democratic government in South Russia

box 14

Provisional Land Law Project of the government in South Russia, Drafted by Pavel Ageev. February 24, 1920.

box 14

Report of events in the last days of the Council of Ministers of the government in South Russia April 6-9, 1920

box 14

Letters to Nikolai Chaikovsky on the situation in South Russia 1919-1921

box 14

Appeals of the Russian delegation in Yassy to Allied powers November 1918

box 14

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

box 14

Kerensky's activities and impressions abroad in connection with the Allies' attitude to the Russian anti-Bolshevik cause, Letters, telegrams, etc. 1918.

box 14

Documents of the Russian Political Conference and of the political delegation representing Russian anti-Bolshevik governments before the Allies in Paris 1918-1919.

box 14

British attitude to the Russian anti-Bolshevik cause 1919

box 14

Chaikovsky's correspondence re French and British attitude to Russian anti-Bolshevik cause 1919

box 14

Chaikovsky's memorandum to Clemenceau on Russian anti-Bolshevik cause, and Chaikovsky to President of the Council of Great Britain. 1918

box 14

Extract from a letter to Mr. Paul Boyer, (in French) June 21, 1918

box 14

Speech by Menard-Dorian, (in French) May 6, 1919

box 14

Reports from prison 1912

 

Clippings

box 14

Mensheviks 1930-1931

box 14

Uprising in Siberia 1925-1931

box 14

Various trials 1927

box 14

Trials of Kondrat'ev, Groman, others 1930-1931

box 14

Execution of the "48," 1930

box 14

Reprisals against the Chekists 1925-1932

box 14

Shakhtinskii trial 1928

box 14

Trial of the "Industrial Party," 1927-1930

box 14

Events in Moscow 1925-1931

box 14

Events in St. Petersburg 1925-1927

box 14

Events in the Ukraine 1925-1931

box 14

Events in RSFSR 1925-1930

box 14

Events in the Caucasus 1925-1933

box 14

Events in Turkestan and the Urals 1925-1932

box 15

GPU abroad 1921-1933

box 15

Russian Chekists in Romania 1932

box 15

GPU methods, trials, executions 1931

box 15

GPU 1932

box 15

Trial of I. Shtern 1932

box 15

Fugitives from the U.S.S.R. 1932

box 15

Prisons and exiles 1932

box 15

Executions 1932-1933

box 15

Red terror 1934

box 15

Gen. A. P. Kutepov affair 1930

box 16

Arrests, trials, executions, etc. 1926

box 16

Arrests, prisons, exiles 1928-1929

box 16

Opposition to Cheka 1928-1929

box 16

Executions 1928-1930

box 16

Fugitives from the U.S.S.R. 1930

box 16

GPU 1930

box 16

Protests in Western Europe 1930

box 16

Exiles 1930

box 16

Executions 1931

box 16

Prisons, exiles, trials of saboteurs 1931

box 16

Trials of saboteurs 1932-1934

box 16

Arrests, exiles, trials of saboteures 1933

box 17

Trial of British saboteurs 1933

box 17

Trials and executions after Kirov's assassination 1934

box 17

Executions, prisons, exiles after Kirov's assassination 1935

box 17

Executions, prisons, exiles 1936

box 17

Trials of Trotskyists-Zinovievists 1936

box 17

Trials, executions, etc. 1937

box 17

Trial of the "17," 1936-1937