Cheka

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The Cheka was the Soviet Union’s first secret police organization, notorious for its role in political repression, mass executions, and enforcing Bolshevik rule during and after the Russian Civil War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf law enforcement agency
secret police organization
state security agency
appliesPolicy Red Terror
country Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR

Soviet Russia
linked to: Russian SFSR
dissolved 1922-02-06
fieldOfWork counter-revolutionary activity suppression
counterintelligence
internal security
followedBy NKVD
OGPU
linked to: GPU
foundedBy Vladimir Lenin
hasLeader Felix Dzerzhinsky
Jakov Peters
Martin Latsis
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
hasPart Military Cheka
linked to: Cheka

Special Departments
Transport Cheka
linked to: Cheka
headquartersLocation Moscow
Petrograd
linked to: Leningrad
ideology Bolshevism
Marxism–Leninism
inception 1917-12-20
jurisdiction Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR
legalForm extraordinary commission
namedAfter Extraordinary Commission
nativeName Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем
nativeNameLanguage Russian
notableFor enforcement of Bolshevik rule
mass executions
political repression
running concentration camps
secret arrests
summary executions
suppression of political opposition
use of torture
officialName All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
linked to: Cheka
operatingLanguage Russian
opposedBy White movement
anti-Bolshevik forces
parentOrganization Soviet government
participatedIn Red Terror
Russian Civil War
War communism
linked to: War Communism
partOf Council of People’s Commissars
replacedBy GPU
State Political Directorate
shortName VChK
usedMethod forced labor
hostage-taking
secret informant networks
show trials

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Tambov Rebellion combatant Cheka units
linked to: Cheka
NKVD predecessor Cheka
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia executedBy Bolshevik authorities
linked to: Cheka
Red Terror perpetrator Cheka
Red Terror perpetrator All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
linked to: Cheka
Red Terror implementedBy Cheka
White Guard movement foughtAgainst Bolshevik Cheka units
linked to: Cheka
Lubyanka Building usedBy Cheka
Cheka officialName All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
linked to: Cheka
Cheka hasPart Transport Cheka
linked to: Cheka
Cheka hasPart Military Cheka
linked to: Cheka
Antonovshchina opposedBy Cheka forces
linked to: Cheka
GPU predecessor Cheka
GPU predecessor All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
linked to: Cheka
Genrikh Yagoda memberOf Cheka
Chairman of the Cheka supervises Cheka investigative departments
linked to: Cheka
Yakov Yurovsky employer Cheka
VChK shortName Cheka
VChK alsoKnownAs Vecheka
linked to: Cheka
VChK alsoKnownAs Cheka
Extraordinary Commission alsoKnownAs Vecheka
linked to: Cheka
Extraordinary Commission hasPart Military Cheka
linked to: Cheka
Extraordinary Commission hasPart Provincial Cheka branches
linked to: Cheka
Martin Latsis employer Cheka
Jakov Peters employer Cheka
NKVD replaces Cheka
subject linked to: NKWD