A series of 145 extensive memoirs of former victims of Stalinism; thousands of files containing short memoirs, letters and other documents relating to the terror, including completed questionnaires stating date of arrest, possible reason, sentence, place of incarceration and length of term; a card index on the memoirs and the files containing brief biographical information of the persons concerned; inventories of both series; a collection of documents from the Tolstovtsi (толстовцы), a movement of Tolstoj (Толстой Лев Николаевич) scholars in the period after the Russian revolution of 1917; some miscellaneous documents.