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.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Red Terror canonical | 11 |
| Red Terror in Finland | 2 |
| Red Terror in Hungary | 2 |
| Decree on Red Terror | 1 |
| Krasny terror | 1 |
| Red Terror in Russia | 1 |
| Красный террор | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T87201 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Red Terror Context triple: [Russian Civil War, significantEvent, Red Terror]
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A.
Tambov Rebellion
The Tambov Rebellion was a major 1920–1921 peasant uprising in Soviet Russia against Bolshevik grain requisitioning and policies, notable for its scale and the Red Army’s harsh suppression.
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B.
Kolchak offensive in Siberia
The Kolchak offensive in Siberia was a major White Army campaign led by Admiral Alexander Kolchak against the Bolsheviks on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War.
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C.
Great Purge
The Great Purge was a brutal campaign of political repression, mass arrests, and executions in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s that targeted perceived enemies of the state, including Communist Party members, military leaders, and ordinary citizens.
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D.
Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre was a World War II mass execution of thousands of Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940.
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E.
Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives was a 1934 purge in Nazi Germany during which Adolf Hitler ordered the assassination of political rivals and perceived threats within his own movement to consolidate his power.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Red Terror Target entity description: 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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A.
Tambov Rebellion
The Tambov Rebellion was a major 1920–1921 peasant uprising in Soviet Russia against Bolshevik grain requisitioning and policies, notable for its scale and the Red Army’s harsh suppression.
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B.
Kolchak offensive in Siberia
The Kolchak offensive in Siberia was a major White Army campaign led by Admiral Alexander Kolchak against the Bolsheviks on the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War.
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C.
Great Purge
The Great Purge was a brutal campaign of political repression, mass arrests, and executions in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s that targeted perceived enemies of the state, including Communist Party members, military leaders, and ordinary citizens.
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D.
Katyn massacre
The Katyn massacre was a World War II mass execution of thousands of Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940.
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E.
Night of the Long Knives
The Night of the Long Knives was a 1934 purge in Nazi Germany during which Adolf Hitler ordered the assassination of political rivals and perceived threats within his own movement to consolidate his power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
mass violence event
ⓘ
political repression campaign ⓘ state terrorism ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Red Terror
ⓘ
surface form:
Krasny terror
|
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Russian SFSR
ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Russia
|
| country |
Russian SFSR
ⓘ
surface form:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Russian SFSR ⓘ
surface form:
Soviet Russia
|
| describedBySource |
Red Terror
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Decree on Red Terror
Soviet government decrees ⓘ |
| endTime | 1922 ⓘ |
| estimatedNumberOfDeaths | 10000–100000 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
White Terror
ⓘ
surface form:
White Terror (Russia)
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
ⓘ
Kyiv ⓘ
surface form:
Kiev
Moscow ⓘ Leningrad ⓘ
surface form:
Petrograd
Russia ⓘ Ukraine ⓘ former Russian Empire ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
concentration camps
ⓘ
forced labor ⓘ hostage-taking ⓘ mass executions ⓘ political repression ⓘ summary trials ⓘ |
| nativeLabel |
Red Terror
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Красный террор
|
| numberOfVictims | tens of thousands ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Mensheviks
ⓘ
Socialist Revolutionary Party ⓘ
surface form:
Socialist Revolutionaries
White movement ⓘ various anti-Bolshevik forces ⓘ |
| partOf |
Russian Civil War
ⓘ
early Soviet political system ⓘ |
| perpetrator |
Cheka
ⓘ
surface form:
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ
surface form:
Bolsheviks
Cheka ⓘ Felix Dzerzhinsky ⓘ Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ⓘ
surface form:
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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Subject: Red Terror Description of subject: 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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