VChK

GPTKB entity

Statements (88)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf secret police organization
gptkbp:abbreviation gptkb:Всероссийская_чрезвычайная_комиссия_по_борьбе_с_контрреволюцией_и_саботажем
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Vecheka
gptkb:Cheka
gptkbp:country gptkb:Soviet_Russia
gptkbp:dissolved 1922
gptkbp:formed 1917
gptkbp:founder gptkb:Felix_Dzerzhinsky
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:All-Russian_Extraordinary_Commission_for_Combating_Counter-Revolution_and_Sabotage
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Moscow
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label VChK
gptkbp:language gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:notableAction espionage
counter-espionage
mass arrests
confiscation of property
suppression of opposition
enforcing Bolshevik rule
executions without trial
running concentration camps
gptkbp:notableBuilding gptkb:Lubyanka_Building
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Russian_Civil_War
gptkb:Red_Terror
gptkbp:notableLeader gptkb:Vyacheslav_Menzhinsky
gptkb:Felix_Dzerzhinsky
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:Leonid_Kritzman
gptkb:Vladimir_Antonov-Ovseenko
gptkb:Vladimir_Bonch-Bruyevich
gptkb:Yakov_Peters
gptkb:Abram_Slutsky
gptkb:Eduard_Berzin
gptkb:Iosif_Unshlikht
gptkb:Martin_Latsis
gptkb:Mikhail_Kedrov
gptkb:Mikhail_Trilisser
gptkb:Sergey_Medvedev
gptkb:Solomon_Mogilevsky
gptkb:Vladimir_Zagorsky
gptkb:Genrikh_Yagoda
Vladimir Lenin (oversight)
gptkbp:notablePublication gptkb:Bulletin_of_the_Cheka
gptkb:Cheka_Weekly
gptkbp:notableVictim gptkb:kulaks
gptkb:nobleman
gptkb:priest
gptkb:Mensheviks
gptkb:Socialist_Revolutionaries
foreign nationals
peasants
workers
political prisoners
intelligentsia
suspected spies
bourgeoisie
hostages
White Army supporters
suspected anarchists
suspected anti-Soviet elements
suspected bandits
suspected black marketeers
suspected counter-revolutionaries
suspected hoarders
suspected monarchists
suspected nationalists
suspected profiteers
suspected saboteurs
suspected separatists
suspected speculators
suspected terrorists
suspected traitors
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:Council_of_People's_Commissars
gptkbp:predecessor nan
gptkbp:purpose gptkb:political_repression
counter-intelligence
state security
combating counter-revolution
combating sabotage
gptkbp:relatedOrganization gptkb:MGB
gptkb:FSB
gptkb:GRU
gptkb:graphics_card
gptkb:OGPU
gptkb:KGB
gptkb:NKVD
gptkbp:successor gptkb:graphics_card
gptkb:OGPU
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Cheka
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5