Sergey Petrovich Melgounov
The original edition of The Red Terror in Russia from which this book has been translated was published by Messrs. Vataga of Berlin in 1924.
To the Reader
Although, for good and sufficient reasons, the translator who has carefully and conscientiously rendered the bulk of this work into English desires to remain anonymous, certain passages in the work have been translated by myself, and the sheets of the manuscript as a whole entrusted to my hands for revision. Hence, if any shortcomings in the rendering should be discerned (as doubtless they will be), they may be ascribed to my fault alone.
For the rest, I would ask the reader to remember, when passages in the present tense are met with, that most of this work was written during the years 1923 and 1924.
C. J. Hogarth.