Red terror. Punishing Sword of the Revolution

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Established in December 1917, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, not only marked the beginning of the history of the Soviet special services, but also became for many an ominous personification of the October Revolution. The book of the leading historian of the terror of the Civil War, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University I.S. Ratkovsky, on the basis of a wide range of sources, covers in detail the Red Terror of the Cheka, debunking the established myths about the activities of the Chekists. What contribution did Lenin and Dzerzhinsky make to the construction of the Cheka? What role did the assassination attempts on the first persons of Soviet Russia play in the start of terror, and what was the main reason for the introduction of the death penalty by the Bolsheviks? Was the Red Terror a response to the terror of the White movement and foreign interventionists, the harsh suppression of revolutions in Germany and Finland? How did the Cheka fight the counter-revolutionary underground, crime, opposition parties and movements? What was the personnel composition of the Chekists and were they all able to withstand the test of power? What is the real scale of the repressions of the Soviet government and what was the result of the RED TERROR policy?

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Publication language: Russian

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