Letters from Russian Prisons

Letters from Russian Prisons

Author: International Committee for Political Prisoners

Year: 1925

Letters from Russian Prisons: Consisting of Reprints of Documents by Political Prisoners in Soviet Prisons, Prison Camps and Exile, and Reprints of Affidavits Concerning Political Persecution in Soviet Russia, Official Statements by Soviet Authorities, Excerpts from Soviet Laws Pertaining to Civil Liberties, and Other Documents. The end of the Russian Civil War in 1920 did not end censorship and political repression by the government of Soviet Russia and its secret political police, the Extraordinary Commission... (ЧK, Che-Ka, Cheka). With opposition political parties on the left such as the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries (SRs) and the Mensheviks being targeted in addition to various anarchist organizations, concerned liberals in the West began raising objections and attempting to alert the public to the devolving situation. This book, issued by a progressive New York City publisher on behalf of the International Committee for Political Prisoners, closely related to the American Civil Liberties Union, is a document of that era and a source of first hand testimony of the repressive policies of the early Soviet state. First published in 1925 by Albert & Charles Boni, New York. Pu