Subject files «about Mensheviks» stored in the Archives of the President of Russian Federation as a source on history of Bolshevik repressive policy against Mensheviks and on their resistance to the Bolshevik regime

The article characterizes 9 subject files «about Mensheviks» stored in the Archives of the President of Russian Federation. The author underlines great importance of their introducing into the scientific circulation as a fund publication which permits to analyze all enclosing documents in a whole, as a complex reflecting the motives of bolshevik leadership and absorbing documents and materials of the opposite (menshevik) side.