At the dawn of the Red Terror. VCHK-Butyrki-Orlovsky Central 1917-1921

The memoirs of Grigory Yakovlevich Aronson (1887-1968) "at the dawn of red terror" are of undoubted interest to the reader. Published for the first time in Berlin in 1929 (where the author, a prominent Menshevik and Bundovets, moved after forced emigration from Russia), these memories tell about the formation of a repressive machine of Soviet power with the Cheka at the head.
He managed to go through the crucibles of many Soviet prisons and at the same time not only to survive, but also to maintain human dignity, Gregory Aronson left the descendants of interesting information about the prison life and the life of the first years of the Bolshevik power, mercilessly straightened with all those who dared "their judgment have"