Chapter II: Introduction: 1

CHAPTER

I. HOSTAGES 3

II. “THE TERROR WAS FORCED UPON US” 22

III. BLOOD STATISTICS 39

IV. THE CIVIL WAR 112

V. “CLASS TERRORISM” 126

VI. CHE-KA TYRANNY 145

VII. EXILE AND IMPRISONMENT 227

VIII. “THE PRIDE AND THE JOY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY” 245

BIBLIOGRAPHY 267

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A FEW OF A PARTY OF NINETEEN ECCLESIASTICS SHOT
AT YURIEV ON JANUARY 1, 1918--AMONGST THEM
BISHOP PLATON--BEFORE THEIR REMOVAL TO THE
ANATOMICAL THEATRE AT YURIEV UNIVERSITY _Frontispiece_

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MALE AND FEMALE EXECUTIONERS AND TORTURERS ACTIVE
IN EUPATORIA DURING 1918 73

VARIOUS EXECUTIONERS AND TORTURERS ACTIVE IN EUPATORIA
DURING THE CRIMEAN TERROR 76

MALE AND FEMALE TORTURERS OF EUPATORIA 89

EXHUMING BOLSHEVISTS’ VICTIMS FROM CLAY PITS AT KOURSK 92

EXHUMING BOLSHEVISTS’ VICTIMS AT ODESSA 163

AN INSCRIPTION WRITTEN BY A PRISONER ON A CELL WALL IN KIEV 165

SAENKO, COMMANDANT OF THE CHE-KA OF KHARKOV, A NOTORIOUS
TORTURER AND EXECUTIONER 167

INSCRIPTIONS WRITTEN BY PRISONERS ON A CELL WALL IN KIEV 174

A TORTURE CHAMBER AT KIEV, WITH “DEATH TO THE BOURGEOISIE”
SCRAWLED ACROSS A WALL 176

A CORNER OF A COACH-HOUSE ON THE PREMISES OF ONE OF THE
KIEVAN CHE-KAS WHERE PRISONERS WERE SHOT. THE FLOOR IS
LITTERED WITH CHIPS OF SKULL BONE, CLOTS OF BRAIN, ETC. 178

KHARKOV VICTIMS 185

HUMAN “GLOVES,” FLAYINGS OF HUMAN HANDS, FOUND IN A
TORTURE CHAMBER AT KHARKOV AFTER THE BOLSHEVISTS’
DEPARTURE 188

FUCHS, A “PUBLIC PROSECUTOR” FOR THE CHE-KA OF KHARKOV 228

CORPSES. CHE-KA OF ZHITOMIR, 1919 241

THE RED TERROR IN RUSSIA