S. P. MEL’GUNOV ON THE REPRESSIVE POLICY IN THE URALS AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL RESEARCHES

The article, based on the archival data, addresses the events of 1921 in Yekaterinburg when a group of offi cers escaped from the concentration camp. Th ese events were highlighted in the book of the first historiographer of the Red Terror in Russia S. P. Mel’gunov. Th e author enters into polemics about description of these events not only with S. P. Mel’gunov but with contemporary historians as well.