All-Russian Extraordinary Commission

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revolutionary tribunal secret police organization

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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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage	2
Vserossiyskaya Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya	2
Чрезвычайная комиссия	2

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
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 ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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 ⓘ