The Cheka – Lenin's Soviet Secret Police
June 30, 2021
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as posted by the channelThe Cheka was the first Soviet secret police and stood for: All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counterrevolution and Sabotage. The Red Terror (1918) was an important element of the Russian Revolution that showed the violent character of the Bolshevik regime led by Vladimir Lenin. The Cheka was led by Felix Dzerzhinsky. Underlaying causes were the Left-SR uprising and the assassination attempt on Lenin by Fanny Kaplan. Hundreds of thousands of people would die at the hands of the Cheka.
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– A People's Tragedy. A History of the Russian Revolution 1891-1924 (Orlando Figes).
– Russia in Flames. War, Revolution, Civil War 1914 – 1921 (Laura Engelstein).
– Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler. The Age of Social Catastrophe (Robert Gellately).
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