The reason was quite simple: as search officer and watch-dog over the wealthy, the Chekist came under enormous pressure, both to help himself to valuables and ...

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A decree of October I919 for the first time formally conferred judicial powers on the Cheka. It was to set up a 'special revolutionary tribunal' to deal with ...

national security agency of Soviet-Russia (1917-1922)

Russian history the secret police set up in 1917 by the Bolshevik government: reorganized in.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, ...

Cheka definition: (in the Soviet Union) the state secret-police organization (1917–22), succeeded by the GPU.. See examples of CHEKA used in a sentence.

Quick Reference. Soviet secret police. An acronym for the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Suppression of Counter-revolution and Sabotage, it was ...

F. E. Dzerzhinsky and members of the College of the Cheka.1919 [isomaterial: electronic resource]: [postcard].- electronic data (2 files: 2.1 MB).

Book overview. Established by Lenin just six weeks after the coup of October 1917, the Cheka was Soviet Russia's first political police organization. This ...

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