The MCK Reports

1918. Moscow. After the revolution of 1917 and the beginning of the Civil War, the country developed a complex criminal situation. Walking the city streets was dangerous even in daytime. Professional criminals of all trades formed bands and carried out brazen raids, robberies, and murders. In just one year, more than thirteen thousand crimes were registered in Moscow, of which only 30% were solved. There is a need to strengthen the protection of state and financial institutions, organize their work more clearly, and increase the responsibility of leaders for the safety of money. For these purposes, the Moscow Extraordinary Commission is created. The story of the activities of a special unit of the Cheka is told in Eduard Khrucky’s novella “The Cheka Reports.”

“The Cheka Reports” is the first in the novel-chronicle “The Fourth Echelon.” Don’t miss the other novellas in the cycle “The Fourth Echelon”: “The Cheka Reports,” “Curfew,” “Troubled August,” “Proceed to Liquidation,” “Fear,” “One Hundred and One Kilometers.”