Вершители красного террора - Ф. Дзержинский и В. Менжинский в очерках эмигранта Романа Гуля
Masters of red terror (Felix Dzerzyhinsky and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky) in literary drafts o f emigrant Roman Gul

Summary/Abstract: In the article, works of Roman Gul - a writer, a literary critic, a historian and memuaristof the first wave of the Russian emigration are examined. His literary work in Poland is littleknownand examined. As the research material there are two drafts about F. Dzerzyhinsky and V.Menzhinsky, Poles, noblemen. Gul, showing main stages of the life and revolutionary activityof Dzerzhinsky (“red executioner”, “father of terror”) is focusing his attention on portrait andpsychological characteristics this fanatic, author of Bolshevik terror. The author of sketches iscomparing “the lion of the revolution” with the Tomas de Torquemada Inquisitor and with activistsof the Great French Revolution Isidore de Robespierre and Antoine Quentin Fouquier deTinville. Convincingly and accurately he is reconstructing the portrait of Menzhinsky. He is alsocreating characteristics of intellectual and spiritual mediocrity.

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