The reference book about political repressions submitted in Saint Petersburg

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As were explained by Margolis Alexander, this reference book was some kind of addition to the encyclopedia "St. Petersburg" published in 2004.

"I then understood that it will be necessary to return to work and to continue it", - he told. The encyclopedia was created on the eve of the 300 anniversary by Saint Petersburg, then 25 articles about terror and resistance to a mode in Petrograd-Leningrad were prepared by the Petersburg historians and journalists, employees of "Memorial" Flige Irina, Kosinova Tatyana, Morgacheva Tatyana and others.

the Present reference book contains p of 700 articles supplied with the short bibliography. Articles give an idea of retaliatory bodies of Petrograd-Leningrad, their figures, of the largest waves of terror – "Red terror", "The Kirov stream", "The former people", "Big terror", "Ethnic deportations", "Campaign for fight against cosmopolitism", etc., and also of various "affairs" fabricated by bodies of state security - from business of "The Petrograd fighting organization" (Tagantsevsky) 1921, before "The Leningrad business" 1949-1952.

the reference book contains information on jails of prisoners – prisons, special psychiatric hospital, camps. There are texts about resistance to a totalitarian mode – from revolt of cadets in Petrograd to human rights opposition in Saint Petersburg.

In the reference book the reader will find p about 20 articles about a samizdat – not subacceptable press in the city, censorship existing up to cancellation in the late eighties. The first part of the reference book also contains articles about terror necropolises – places where victims, monuments, memorial boards and other forms of preservation of memory are based.

the Second part of the reference book contains p of 570 brief curriculum vitae about the majority of the people mentioned in its first part.

"This book reflected me as big provocation, - Alexander Margolis told on submission of the edition Margolis Alexander, and near it – certificates of those who was lost when he headed People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs is my principled stand, they lived this life together, being antipodes and enemies, it always should be held in the head to make idea of an era".

Flige Irina, director of Research Center Memorial: "Margolis Alexander created the courageous book, setting to us systems of coordinates of memory and history, understanding of that was and that occurs today".

Danielle Alexander, the employee of the Petersburg Research Center Memorial, reported that soon Margolis Alexander will present an electronic resource which while "Chronograph" conditionally is called: "It will be a similar material, but in country scales".

"Special interest and the reference book and future "Chronograph" can present to p for school and high school teachers if by then do not forbid these subjects", - Danielle Alexander told.

the Reference book also shortly has to find the electronic version. Printing – very modest, there are no photos, except a photo of the Solovki stone, and the circulation of the book small even at present – 500 copies. The donor who asked not to call it gave funds for the edition. The state did not participate anything.

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Margolis Alexander, telling about work on the book, repeatedly mentioned group Razumov Anatoly and "The Leningrad passional" - data on victims of Big terror and spoke about extreme importance for the Russian history of work of this group on which also the Petersburg part of the Last Address project now relies. "The group Razumov Anatoly already left for time frames of "Big terror" and moves ahead towards 1917, - Margolis Alexander noted. – There is a wish to hope that they will go not only towards origin of a terrorist mode, and will look and in 40-50 years of the past eyelid, they have other scale, I do not want to compete with them".

Margolis Alexander considers that his reference book – for very wide range of those who wants to open for itself(himself) history Saint Petersburg – Saint Petersburg. to

"The reference book is necessary to p exactly today and right now, without thanking, but contrary to therefore I call all who anyway was kind to work - join in it, - Margolis Alexander summarized. - Its relevance need for it remained and can even become aggravated therefore the more us will be – those who will be engaged in a reminder on a true story of the city in the twentieth century, the better".