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Terror of the Cheka in the testimonies of socialist-revolutionaries. 1918-1922

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Terror of the Cheka in the testimonies of socialist-revolutionaries. 1918-1922
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The testimonies about the Red Terror, which are included in this book, were first published exactly one hundred years ago in the collection "Che-Ka. Materials on the Activities of the Extraordinary Commissions," published in Berlin by the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. The names of those to whom they belong are, with few exceptions, hidden behind pseudonyms. These men were in Russia at the time of the printing of the collection, and some of them had been arrested again and were awaiting their fate in the prisons which are so vividly described in this book. A characteristic detail: all of them find it necessary to indicate the party affiliation of the victims of terror. It is important for them to emphasize that the Bolsheviks who came to power killed their yesterday's comrades-in-arms in the struggle against autocracy. It is as if they are perplexed as to how this could have happened. But that is the logic of civil war, that in its fierceness it mangles the lives of everyone: leftists and rightists, liberals and patriots, political activists and those who do not want to hear about politics. And terror, no matter who unleashed it, eventually devours both its own and the lives of others.
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