EVENT INFORMATION

20
December
1917

Cheka established as political police

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📅 20 December 1917 📍 Rusland

Sovnarkom created the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka) to combat counterrevolution and sabotage (7 December Julian; 20 December Gregorian). The institution became a tool of political surveillance, detention and violence. Its creation marked an early expansion of coercive state power and complicates any account that treats revolutionary emancipation as an uncomplicated transition to popular rule.

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Felix Dzerzhinsky

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Cheka

Sovnarkom