GB 0097 MELGUNOV - MEL'GUNOV, Sergei Petrovich, 1879-1956, Russian historian and émigré

255 boxes

Bought from the family in 1961. A further deposit was made by the family in 1968.
GB 0097 MELGUNOV [1910-1960] Collection (fonds) 255 boxes Mel'gunov , Sergei Petrovich , 1879-1956 , Russian historian and émigré
Born in 1879; worked as Professor of History previous to the Russian Revolution; founded an anti-Bolshevik socialist party (Popular Socialist Party), 1919; sentenced to death, then reprieved, with the sentence commuted to imprisonment; expelled from the Soviet Union, 1920; settled in Prague, Berlin and Paris, where he continued his historical researches and published works on Russian history; became editor of several émigré journals; died 1956. Publications: The Red Terror in Russia (JM Dent and Sons, London and Toronto, 1925); numerous publications in Russian.

Bought from the family in 1961. A further deposit was made by the family in 1968.

Papers of Professor Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov, [1910-1960], including a large amount of material relating to the Russian Revolutions and the Russian Civil War, notably handwritten and typewritten accounts of eyewitnesses and victims of the Bolshevik regime, [1918-1920], cuttings from various Russian newspapers, 1919-1921, papers and cuttings relating to trials and executions of opponents of the regime, 1921-1934, papers concerning the Cheka (and lists of Chekists), 1918-[1927], and the GPU, and other material relating to the period; and correspondence with Russian émigrés and prominent people abroad and in Russia, including comments on contemporary political events and problems, notably letters from Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova, an early Russian Marxist who was exiled in 1922 for opposition to the Bolshevik government.

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Russian, English
The condition of many of the documents is poor, and they require careful handling.

Summary boxlist available.

Mel'gunov's book collection forms part of the Library's Russian collection.

Sources: British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97; Historical Manuscripts Commission National Register of Archives. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Jan 2001 Cheka , Soviet secret police agency x Vecheka Civil war Collectivism Communism Eastern Europe Exiles GPU , Soviet political police agency International conflicts Kuskova , Yekaterina Dmitriyevna , 1869-1958 , Russian political figure and émigré Mel'gunov , Sergei Petrovich , 1879-1956 , Russian historian and émigré x Melgounoff , Sergei Petrovich x Melgounov , Sergei Petrovich Migrants Political doctrines Political movements Revolutionary movements Russia Russian Civil War (1917-1922) Russian Revolution (1917) Russian Social-Democratic Workers Party , Bolsheviks x Russian Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) x All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) x Communist Party of the Soviet Union War Crimea

Papers of Professor Sergei Petrovich Mel'gunov, [1910-1960], including a large amount of material relating to the Russian Revolutions and the Russian Civil War, notably handwritten and typewritten accounts of eyewitnesses and victims of the Bolshevik regime, [1918-1920], cuttings from various Russian newspapers, 1919-1921, papers and cuttings relating to trials and executions of opponents of the regime, 1921-1934, papers concerning the Cheka (and lists of Chekists), 1918-[1927], and the GPU, and other material relating to the period; and correspondence with Russian émigrés and prominent people abroad and in Russia, including comments on contemporary political events and problems, notably letters from Yekaterina Dmitriyevna Kuskova, an early Russian Marxist who was exiled in 1922 for opposition to the Bolshevik government.

Unsorted.

Apply to Archivist.

Copyright unknown. Some documents may be photocopied.

• Engels

• Latijn

Russian, English

Mel'gunov's book collection forms part of the Library's Russian collection.

Summary boxlist available.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• Engels