Memoirs of prominent revolutionary figures, publications, and research by historians are devoted to the activities of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee (MRC), its role as the combat headquarters of the October Armed Uprising and the organ for defending the gains of October in the first weeks of Soviet power. The result of extensive work in this area was the publication in 1966-1967 of the three-volume collection of documents and materials "Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee". This publication is based on the committee's fund, published in its entirety. It is accompanied by documents found in other archives, as well as press materials, including those that at least indirectly characterize the activities of the Petrograd VRK. An important source for the history of the Petrograd VRK is the memoir testimonies written by members of the VRK N. I. Podvoysky, V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko, V. I. Nevsky, K. A. Mekhonoshin, A.D. Sadovsky, K. S. Eremeev, G. I. Chudnovsky, some of the MRC commissars, S. I. Shulga, an employee of the Bureau of Commissars, and other active workers. 1 . They fill in significant gaps in the documentary base of the history of the Military Revolutionary Committee. Since the publication of the three-volume edition of documents and materials, no previously unknown sources on the history of the Petrograd MRC have been identified. This does not mean, however, that all materials on this topic have been exhausted by those already published. This is evidenced by a series of valuable sources stored in the Central State Academy of Sciences of the USSR and not yet in the field of view of researchers. These are correspondence and minutes of meetings of the East Committee of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and the Central Committee of the RSFSR, related to the publication of the minutes of the Petrograd MRC, which was supposed to be published in 1927-1931, and comments on the minutes and memoirs of a number of its active figures that are of t ... Читать далее