- kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə]),
abbreviated as VChK (Russian: ВЧК, IPA: [vɛ tɕe
ˈka]), and
commonly known as the
Cheka (Russian: ЧК, IPA: [tɕɪˈka]), was the
first Soviet secret...
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executions in
Soviet Russia carried out by the Bolsheviks,
chiefly through the
Cheka, the
Bolshevik secret police. It
officially started in
early September 1918...
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against real and
imagined enemies of the state. The name is
derived from
Cheka, the
colloquial name of the
first in the
succession of
Soviet secret police...
- from
February 1922 to
November 1923. It was the
immediate successor of the
Cheka, and was
replaced by the
Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). The official...
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Directorate and of the
Cheka, was
appointed as the OGPU's
first chief. The
OSNAZ (ОСНАЗ), a
militarised section of the
Cheka, had
originated in 1921;...
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death in 1926, he led the
first two
Soviet secret police organizations, the
Cheka and the OGPU,
establishing state security organs for the
Bolshevik government...
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leader in Russia.
After the
October Revolution, he was the
chief of the
Cheka secret police of the
Petrograd Soviet.
Uritsky was ********inated by Leonid...
- Revolution,
created by
Vladimir Lenin's
decree on
December 20, 1917, was
called "
Cheka" (ЧК).
Officers were
referred to as "chekists", a name that is
still informally...
- Brest-Litovsk. Left SRs
continued to work in
other organizations (notably the
Cheka)
while denouncing the
treaty and the
policy of
requisitioning grain from...
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direct successor of
preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the
Cheka, OGPU, and NKVD.
Attached to the
Council of Ministers, it was the chief...
