The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police : the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage, December 1917 to February 1922Reprint, with corrections, of the 1981 edition. |
Contents
The Origins and Foundation of the Vecheka | 1 |
Improvisation | 28 |
Lenin the LSRs Terror and Revolutionary Justice | 41 |
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Administration All-Russian Anarchists appointed arrested August Bliumkin Bolshaia Lubianka Bolshevik Party Chamberlin Chekists citing Collegium member combating counter-revolution Commissariat Congress of Soviets counter-revolutionary death December decree Defence Council Deputy Chairman dictatorship District Chekas Dzerzhinsky established executive committees Extraordinary Commission February front Ibid insurrection investigation Izvestiia January July June Khatskevich Kronstadt labour Latsis Lenin Lenin i VChK March Melgounov Mensheviks Menzhinsky military Militia Moscow NKIu NKVD November October OGPU Okhrana organisation Orgburo Party's Central Committee peasant People's Commissar personnel Peters Petrograd Soviet Polish Politburo political police Pravda Presidium prisoners proletariat Provincial Chekas Rabkrin Railway Red Army Red Terror régime Revolution Revolutionary Tribunals Revvoensovet RSDRP RSFSR Russian Sept Socialist Sofinov Sovnarkom Special Department OO Stalin Steinberg suppression Tambov territory text in Belov Trotsky Tsarist Tsvigun Ukraine Ukrainian Ukrainian Cheka Unshlikht USSR Vecheka Collegium Vecheka Troops VOKhR VTSIK whilst workers