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ELIMINATION OF SOVIET AND ANTI-SOVIET LITERATURE. BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, POSTERS, ARTIFACTS.
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LOT 528:
The case of Boris Savinkov. With the article "Why I recognized the Soviet Power".
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The case of Boris Savinkov. With the article "Why I recognized the Soviet Power".
Moscow. State Publishing House, 1924. - 160 p. Publisher's cover, standard format (16 x 23 cm). The cover is worn and dirty, has tears, losses, including on the spine; the copy is not cut; the author's photo is provided for reference and is not part of the lot.
[Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (January 19 [31], 1879, Kharkiv — May 7, 1925, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary, terrorist, one of the leaders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, the head of the Combat Organization of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Member of the White Movement, writer (novelist, poet, publicist, memoirist; literary pseudonym-V. Ropshin). He is known for the book "Memoirs of a Terrorist".
He is also known under the pseudonyms "B. N.", Veniamin, Halley James, Kramer, Kseshinsky, Pavel Ivanovich, Rode Leon, Subbotin D. E., Tok Rene, Tomashevich Adolf, Chernetsky Konstantin.
In early August 1924, Savinkov illegally arrived in the USSR, where he was lured as a result of the operation "Syndicate-2" developed by the OGPU. On August 16, he was arrested in Minsk together with his mistress Lyubov Yefimovna Dikgof and her husband A. A. Dikgof. At the trial, Savinkov admitted his guilt and defeat in the struggle against the Soviet government.
On August 29, 1924, the military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death by firing squad. The Supreme Court petitioned the Presidium of the CEC of the USSR to commute the sentence. The request was granted, and the execution was commuted to 10 years ' imprisonment.
In prison, Savinkov had the opportunity to engage in literary work, according to some sources, he had hotel conditions. Savinkov wrote and sent letters to some leaders of the white emigration calling for an end to the struggle against the Soviet Union.
According to the official version, on May 7, 1925, Savinkov committed suicide in the building of the Cheka on Lubyanka. Taking advantage of the absence of a window grating in the room where he was on his return from a walk, Boris Savinkov threw himself out of a fifth-floor window into the courtyard.]
