Control of the People: The Secret Police (Edexcel A-Level History): Flashcards
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Cheka establishment date
Cheka establishment date
December 1917
Full name of Cheka
Full name of Cheka
Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution
Head of secret police 1917-1926
Head of secret police 1917-1926
Felix Dzerzhinsky
What Cheka dispensed instead of law
What Cheka dispensed instead of law
Revolutionary justice
End date of Red Terror
End date of Red Terror
1921
Cheka reorganised as this in 1922
Cheka reorganised as this in 1922
GPU
Body closed by Cheka/Red Army in Jan 1918
Body closed by Cheka/Red Army in Jan 1918
Constituent Assembly
Year of Socialist Revolutionary leaders trial
Year of Socialist Revolutionary leaders trial
1922
Private traders targeted by GPU under NEP
Private traders targeted by GPU under NEP
Nepmen
Year terror became permanent feature
Year terror became permanent feature
1924