The Cheka, the first in a long succession of Soviet secret police agencies, established the security service as a major player in Soviet politics. It was dissolved in February 1922, and succeeded …

Senior Lecturer in Politics and Chairman, Department of Social Sciences, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Editor of The Soviet Union Under Gorbachev.

The Cheka (Chesvychaika), or GPU, is the instrument of the red terror, organized in 1918, through which the Soviet government, the Communist party and the Third International, …

The Cheka (ЧК - чрезвычайная комиссия Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya,Russian pronunciation:[tɕɛ.ka]) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations. It …

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, better known as the Cheka, was the secret police of the Bolshevik party under Vladimir Lenin in the early years of the Soviet Union.

Jun 27, 2025 · On December 20, 1917, Felix Dzerzhinsky—a Polish revolutionary with ice-cold resolve—founded the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter …

Dec 20, 2017 · The Cheka, established on 20 December 1917, was in many ways a reincarnation of the Tsarist security service, the Okhrana, making use of its methods and in some cases its …

The Cheka was the first secret police organization in Soviet Russia, established in December 1917 to combat counter-revolution and sabotage during the Russian Civil War.

Mar 29, 2022 · To help root out enemies and protect their fragile new regime, the Bolsheviks formed the Cheka (All-Russian Emergency Commission for Combatting Counter-Revolution …

Oct 12, 2001 · One of the pillars of the USSR's power was a special repressive structure, popularly known as the Cheka. The Bolsheviks created it soon after they came to power in …