abbreviated as VChK (Russian: ВЧК, IPA: [vɛ tɕe ˈka]), and commonly known as Cheka (Russian: Чека, IPA: [tɕɪˈka]; from the initialism ЧК), was the first of...
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Francis Cheka (born Francis Boniface Cheka on April 15, 1982 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a Tanzanian professional boxer and the current World Boxing...
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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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Felix Dzerzhinsky (category Cheka officers)
death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the post-revolutionary...
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December 1991. As a direct successor of preceding agencies such as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKGB, NKVD and MGB, it was attached to the Council of Ministers...
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chief was the Cheka's former chairman, Felix Dzerzhinsky. On paper, the new agency was supposed to act with more restraint than the Cheka. For example...
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Chinese in the Russian Revolution and in the Russian Civil War (section Chinese in the Cheka and military guard units)
Chinese served as bodyguards of Bolshevik functionaries, served in the Cheka, and even formed complete regiments of the Red Army. It has been estimated...
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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...
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Cheka is a state constituency in Pahang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Pahang State Legislative Assembly. According to the federal gazette...
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Mat Kilau who fought against the occupants once near Kampung Hulu Cheka at Ulu Cheka, Jerantut, Pahang. He was born in Kampung Sempiat, Benta, Mukim Tanjung...
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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and was successor to the Cheka. It was responsible to the Council of People's Commissars, which functioned...
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Accordingly, throughout Soviet Russia the Cheka carried out killings, often in large numbers. For example, the Petrograd Cheka executed 512 people in a few days...
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Ulu Cheka is a small village in Jerantut District, Pahang, Malaysia. v t e...
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assassination of Makhno by Cheka agents. Anger at continued repression by the Bolshevik Communist government and at its liberal use of the Cheka to put down anarchist...
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Brest-Litovsk. Left SRs continued to work in other organizations (notably the Cheka), denouncing the treaty and the policy of requisitioning grain from the...
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Yakov Yurovsky (category Cheka)
Yurovsky worked as a head of local Cheka in Moscow, then a member of Vyatka Cheka, head of Yekaterinburg Cheka (1919). In 1921, he worked in the Rabkrin...
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Sports Society "Dynamo" as a sports organization of Soviet secret police Cheka. On 13 July 1925 the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)...
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State Security Service (Azerbaijan) (redirect from Azerbaijan Cheka)
against Counter-Revolution (1918-1920) Extraordinary Commissions of the Cheka (1920-1921) State Political Department (1922-1934) Main State Security Department...
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the Soviet government and now houses many other people. Yevgraf, now a Cheka officer, tells Yuri his poems have been condemned as anti-communist. Yevgraf...
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against the Democratic Republic of Georgia in early 1924. Red Army and Cheka troops, under orders of the Georgian Bolsheviks Joseph Stalin and Sergo...
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the killing was a "patriotic act". In 1918, Vladimir Lenin ordered the Cheka to arrest Elisabeth. They then exiled her first to Perm, then to Yekaterinburg...
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Federative Socialist Republic. He strongly supported Lenin's formation of the Cheka security service and the subsequent Red Terror that it initiated; noting...
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Presidium of the Cheka Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Martin Latsis and secretary B.M. Futoryan. On November 1, 1920, the Special Department of the Cheka issued a conclusion...
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Moscow. Reilly disappeared in Soviet Russia in the mid-1920s, lured by the Cheka's Operation Trust. British diplomat and journalist R. H. Bruce Lockhart publicised...
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Jēkabs Peterss (category Cheka officers)
the Cheka, the secret police of the Soviet Russia. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Cheka from 1918 and briefly the acting Chairman of the Cheka from...
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plan and was enforced by regular troops and the secret police known as Cheka. Those who resisted were arrested and deported to gulags and work camps...
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had removed them from the Ipatiev House in May, they had been shot by the Cheka with a group of other hostages on 6 July, in reprisal for the death of Ivan...
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(Bolsheviks) and the Cheka (the Bolshevik security agency) in March 1921. He was soon appointed a platoon commander in the military wing of the Cheka and its successor...
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Guard organization and a core soldiery of Red Guard militiamen and the Cheka secret police. Conscription began in June 1918, and opposition to it was...
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Filipp Medved (category Cheka officers)
Belarusian revolutionary and official of the Soviet state securities, the Cheka, OGPU and NKVD. Born in to a Belarusian working-class family. He was active...
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