This collection includes testimonies of people who witnessed the Red Terror in Russia, proclaimed by the Bolsheviks in September 1918 as official state policy. These people, belonging to different social classes and professions, managed to survive by leaving a country engulfed in revolutionary turmoil. Already in the first years of emigration, they wrote about what they had lived through. Some of the materials presented were published in various émigré editions in the 1920s. The collection also includes previously unpublished testimonies sent to the historian S. P. Melgunov and preserved in his collection in the archives of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (Palo Alto, USA).
Compiled, with preface and commentary by S. V. Volkov