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abbreviated as VChK (Russian: ВЧК, IPA: [vɛ tɕe ˈka]), and
commonly known as
Cheka (Russian: Чека, IPA: [tɕɪˈka]; from the
initialism ЧК), was the
first of...
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Francis Cheka (born
Francis Boniface Cheka on
April 15, 1982 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a
Tanzanian professional boxer and the
current World Boxing...
- and Finland,
which was
carried out by the Bolsheviks,
chiefly through the
Cheka, the
Bolshevik secret police. It
officially started in
early September 1918...
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December 1991. As a
direct successor of
preceding agencies such as the
Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKGB, NKVD and MGB, it was
attached to the
Council of Ministers...
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death in 1926, he led the
first two
Soviet secret police organizations, the
Cheka and the OGPU,
establishing state security organs for the post-revolutionary...
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chief was the
Cheka's former chairman,
Felix Dzerzhinsky. On paper, the new
agency was
supposed to act with more
restraint than the
Cheka. For example...
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Chinese served as
bodyguards of
Bolshevik functionaries,
served in the
Cheka, and even
formed complete regiments of the Red Army. It has been estimated...
- Revolution,
created by
Vladimir Lenin's
decree on
December 20, 1917, was
called "
Cheka" (ЧК).
Officers were
referred to as "chekists", a name that is
still informally...
-
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and was
successor to the
Cheka. It was
responsible to the
Council of People's Commissars,
which functioned...
- Brest-Litovsk. Left SRs
continued to work in
other organizations (notably the
Cheka),
denouncing the
treaty and the
policy of
requisitioning grain from the...
