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This edition is a reprint reproduction of the historical almanac "Past", published by the Parisian publishing house "Atheneum". Its purpose is to introduce unknown materials on Russian history and culture of the 20th century into scientific and public circulation. Issue 7 is devoted to political history, and also includes materials on the history of education, memoirs and documents about the post-revolutionary underground activities of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, Mensheviks and Trotskyists, memoirs of the Prime Minister of the last independent government of Estonia in 1944 O. Tiif, testimony of O. Volin (R. I. Pimenov) about his Beria cellmates in the Vladimir prison in the 1960s, materials about M.N. Stoyunina and I.F. Annensky, secret letters from V.I. A. Sharia. The book is intended both for specialists and for a wide range of readers interested in the domestic past. Contains illustrations.