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 NERFINISHED
VChK NERFINISHED
appliesToJurisdiction territory controlled by the Bolsheviks
chairperson Felix Dzerzhinsky NERFINISHED
country Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
dissolved 1922-02-06
headquartersLocation Moscow
Petrograd NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod Red Terror NERFINISHED
Russian Civil War NERFINISHED
ideology Bolshevism
Marxism–Leninism
inception 1917-12-20
jurisdiction Soviet Russia NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
nativeNameAbbreviation ВЧК NERFINISHED
notableEvent implementation of the Red Terror of 1918
notableLeader Felix Dzerzhinsky NERFINISHED
notableMember Martin Latsis NERFINISHED
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky NERFINISHED
Yakov Peters NERFINISHED
operationalScope counterintelligence
political policing
suppression of opposition parties
parentOrganization Soviet government NERFINISHED
partOf Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR NERFINISHED
replacedBy GPU NERFINISHED
State Political Directorate NERFINISHED
significance first Soviet secret police organization
subsequentInstitution KGB NERFINISHED
NKVD NERFINISHED
OGPU NERFINISHED

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Chairman of the Cheka partOf All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
Chairman of the Cheka headOfGovernmentAgency All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
this entity surface form: All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
VChK fullName All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
this entity surface form: Vserossiyskaya Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya
VChK fullNameInEnglish All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
VChK abbreviationOf All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
this entity surface form: Vserossiyskaya Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya
Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем alsoKnownAs All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
this entity surface form: Чрезвычайная комиссия
Extraordinary Commission nativeLabel All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
this entity surface form: Чрезвычайная комиссия
Extraordinary Commission alsoKnownAs All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
Extraordinary Commission officialName All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
this entity surface form: All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
Special Departments partOf All-Russian Extraordinary Commission