Red Terror (Soviet Union)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Red_Terror_(Soviet_Union)

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:political_repression
gptkbp:commemoratedBy	historical studies memorials
gptkbp:country	gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:debatedBy	comparison with White Terror justification of violence scale of repression
gptkbp:declaredBy	gptkb:Soviet_government
gptkbp:documentedIn	gptkb:archives historical accounts
gptkbp:endDate	1922
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Great_Purge
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Red Terror (Soviet Union)
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:French_Revolution's_Reign_of_Terror
gptkbp:justification	suppression of counter-revolution response to assassination attempt on Lenin
gptkbp:legalBasis	decrees by Soviet government
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Russia gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	gptkb:Pravda
gptkbp:method	imprisonment deportation confiscation of property summary execution
gptkbp:notableEvent	torture mass executions hostage taking arbitrary arrests
gptkbp:notableFigure	gptkb:Vladimir_Lenin gptkb:Yakov_Peters gptkb:Felix_Dzerzhinsky
gptkbp:opposedBy	gptkb:White_movement foreign governments
gptkbp:perpetrator	gptkb:Bolsheviks gptkb:Cheka
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:October_Revolution
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Russian_Civil_War gptkb:White_Terror_(Russia)
gptkbp:significance	suppression of opposition establishment of Soviet state control
gptkbp:startDate	1918
gptkbp:target	gptkb:priest political opponents bourgeoisie White Army supporters former Tsarist officials
gptkbp:victim	tens of thousands
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Ethiopian_Red_Terror
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6