All-Russian Extraordinary Commission

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The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, commonly known as the Cheka, was the Soviet Union’s first secret police and security organization, created after the Bolshevik Revolution to suppress counterrevolution and political dissent through extensive surveillance, arrests, and executions.

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instanceOf revolutionary tribunal
secret police organization
alsoKnownAs Cheka
VChK
appliesToJurisdiction territory controlled by the Bolsheviks
chairperson Felix Dzerzhinsky
country Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR
dissolved 1922-02-06
headquartersLocation Moscow
Petrograd
historicalPeriod Red Terror
Russian Civil War
ideology Bolshevism
Marxism–Leninism
inception 1917-12-20
jurisdiction Soviet Russia
linked to: Russian SFSR
languageOfWork Russian
legacy model for later Soviet security services
legalBasis decree of the Council of People’s Commissars
mainPurpose internal security
protection of Bolshevik rule
suppression of counterrevolution
suppression of political dissent
method arrests
executions
hostage-taking
secret informant networks
surveillance
torture
nativeName Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия
nativeNameAbbreviation ВЧК
notableEvent implementation of the Red Terror of 1918
notableLeader Felix Dzerzhinsky
notableMember Martin Latsis
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
Yakov Peters
operationalScope counterintelligence
political policing
suppression of opposition parties
parentOrganization Soviet government
partOf Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR
replacedBy GPU
State Political Directorate
significance first Soviet secret police organization
subsequentInstitution KGB
NKVD
OGPU
linked to: GPU

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Chairman of the Cheka partOf All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
Chairman of the Cheka headOfGovernmentAgency All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
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VChK fullName Vserossiyskaya Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya
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VChK fullNameInEnglish All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
VChK abbreviationOf Vserossiyskaya Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya
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Extraordinary Commission nativeLabel Чрезвычайная комиссия
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Extraordinary Commission alsoKnownAs All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
Extraordinary Commission officialName All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
linked to: All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
Special Departments partOf All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
Metropolitan Benjamin of Petrograd convictedBy Revolutionary Tribunal of Petrograd
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All-Russian Extraordinary Commission nativeName Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия
linked to: All-Russian Extraordinary Commission