Red Terror

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The Red Terror was a brutal campaign of mass arrests, executions, and political repression carried out by the Bolshevik regime and its secret police (the Cheka) during the early years of Soviet power.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf mass violence event
political repression campaign
state terrorism
alsoKnownAs Krasny terror
linked to: Red Terror
appliesToJurisdiction Soviet Russia
linked to: Russian SFSR
country Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR

Soviet Russia
linked to: Russian SFSR
describedBySource Decree on Red Terror
linked to: Red Terror

Soviet government decrees
endTime 1922
estimatedNumberOfDeaths 10000–100000
followedBy White Terror (Russia)
linked to: White Terror

ongoing Soviet political repression
genre political violence
state repression
hasCause Bolshevik consolidation of power
assassination of Moisei Uritsky
attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin
class struggle ideology
fear of counterrevolution
hasCharacteristic class-based persecution
legal exceptionalism
mass arrests
summary executions
use of secret police
hasEffect consolidation of Bolshevik rule
establishment of a culture of fear
precedent for later Stalinist purges
suppression of political pluralism in Soviet Russia
historicalPeriod early Soviet era
post-October Revolution period
ideology Bolshevism
Marxism–Leninism
dictatorship of the proletariat
implementedBy Cheka
local revolutionary tribunals
languageOfName Russian
location Crimea
Kiev
linked to: Kyiv

Moscow
Petrograd
linked to: Leningrad

Russia
Ukraine
former Russian Empire
mainSubject concentration camps
forced labor
hostage-taking
mass executions
political repression
summary trials
nativeLabel Красный террор
linked to: Red Terror
numberOfVictims tens of thousands
opposedBy Mensheviks
Socialist Revolutionaries
White movement
various anti-Bolshevik forces
partOf Russian Civil War
early Soviet political system
perpetrator All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
linked to: Cheka

Bolsheviks
Cheka
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
significantEvent Russian Civil War
startTime 1918-09-05
target bourgeoisie
clergy
former Tsarist officials
hostages from upper and middle classes
political opponents
suspected counterrevolutionaries
usedBy Soviet government

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White Terror (Russian Civil War) isParallelTo Red Terror
subject linked to: White Terror
Finnish Civil War followedBy Red Terror in Finland
linked to: Red Terror
Red Terror describedBySource Decree on Red Terror
linked to: Red Terror
Red Terror nativeLabel Красный террор
linked to: Red Terror
Red Terror alsoKnownAs Krasny terror
linked to: Red Terror
Terrorism and Communism defends Red Terror
Cheka appliesPolicy Red Terror
Cheka participatedIn Red Terror
White Terror in Finland relatedTo Red Terror in Finland
linked to: Red Terror
White Terror in Hungary follows Red Terror in Hungary
linked to: Red Terror
White Terror in Hungary relatedTo Red Terror in Hungary
linked to: Red Terror
VChK activity Red Terror
Martin Latsis notableWork Red Terror in Russia
linked to: Red Terror
Martin Latsis participantIn Red Terror