"Bolshevist's repentance". Open letters of the left opposition as a tool of propaganda in 1918-1920-s (by materials of Orel and Bryansk provinces)

In the article by the materials of regional archives and local periodicals the use of the Bolsheviks penitential letters SRs and Mensheviks as a tool of fight against their ideological opponents are considered. The author paid special attention use public letters and statements during the political campaign in the first half of the 1920s.