Melgunov, Sergei

Krasnyi terror v Rossii [The Red Terror in Russia]

New York, NY: Brandy, 1979. Item #1496

[2], 204 s.; 21.5 × 14 cm. In the original publisher’s wrapper. ISBN 0-935874-00-3.

The first American edition of Sergei Melgunov’s seminal exposé on Bolshevik atrocities in the early years following the October Revolution. Originally published in Berlin in 1924, Krasnyi terror v Rossii became one of the most influential and controversial works documenting the systematic violence of the Soviet regime during the Civil War period. Banned in the USSR for decades, the book was widely disseminated among émigré circles and remains a cornerstone of anti-totalitarian historiography.

Sergei Petrovich Melgunov (1879–1956) was a Russian historian, publicist, political activist, and publisher. A Menshevik by background, Melgunov fled Soviet Russia and became a fierce critic of Bolshevism. His writing—marked by moral urgency and documentary rigor—gave voice to the suffering of countless victims and challenged the ideological myths surrounding the early Soviet state. He is considered one of the most principled chroniclers of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.

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