About the book: 1989 / Increased interest in the history of Soviet society has created a need for literature about the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to combat counter-revolution, profiteering and crimes in office - one of the most important bodies that protected the revolutionary gains of October. The reader is offered the second, updated edition of the documentary collection “The Red Book of the Cheka.” It contains authentic materials seized from counter-revolutionaries, their written testimonies, interrogation reports, indictments, resolutions of the Cheka board and sentences revolutionary tribunals. The book is published on the initiative of the State Security Committee of the USSR. Second edition, updated.