Dzerzhinsky’s prison diary and the letters to his rela tives published in this volume show how the will of the revolutionary was steeled by severe trials, how his cour age grew in the struggle to emancipate the people from exploitation and slavery.
Dzerzhinsky’s diary and letters are not a chronicle of his life. On the other hand, their every line is evidence of the great mind and ideological probity of their writer, who had a deep love for the working man and a boundless hatred for the oppressors.
The Russian text of this book was compiled and prepared for the press by Dzerzhinsky’s widow
Translated from the Russian by John Gibbons
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD 5
AUTOBIOGRAPHY 13
PAGES FROM A PRISON DIARY 1908-09 19
LETTERS TO RELATIVES 1898-1902 129
ESCAPE FROM EXILE 163
LETTERS TO RELATIVES 1902-26 175
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