Red Terror (Russia)

GPTKB entity

Statements (44)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:political_repression
gptkbp:cause gptkb:Civil_War
assassination attempt on Lenin
gptkbp:country gptkb:Russia
gptkbp:endDate 1922
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Great_Purge
gptkbp:historicalPeriod early Soviet era
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Red Terror (Russia)
gptkbp:legalBasis Decree on Red Terror
gptkbp:location gptkb:Soviet_Russia
gptkbp:mediaCoverage gptkb:Pravda
gptkb:Izvestia
gptkbp:method torture
arbitrary arrest
hostage taking
summary executions
gptkbp:motive consolidation of Bolshevik power
elimination of counter-revolutionaries
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Vladimir_Lenin
gptkb:Yakov_Peters
gptkb:Felix_Dzerzhinsky
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Mensheviks
gptkb:Socialist_Revolutionaries
White Army
gptkbp:perpetrator gptkb:Bolsheviks
gptkb:Cheka
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:October_Revolution
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Russian_Civil_War
gptkb:White_Terror_(Russia)
gptkbp:result imprisonment
forced labor
mass executions
suppression of opposition
gptkbp:significance establishment of Soviet state security apparatus
precedent for later Soviet repressions
gptkbp:startDate 1918
gptkbp:target gptkb:kulaks
gptkb:priest
political opponents
bourgeoisie
former Tsarist officials
gptkbp:victim tens of thousands
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Red_Terror_(Ethiopia)
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8