10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHEKA»
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Cheka in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Cheka and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The
Cheka: Lenin's political police : the all-Russian ...
Reprint, with corrections, of the 1981 edition.
The proportion of Jews in the Cheka as a whole was not very high (compared to
what White propaganda often alleged): 3.7 percent of the Moscow apparatus, 4.3
percent of Cheka commissars, and 8.6 percent of senior (“responsible”) officials ...
3
Encyclopedia of Soviet Life
The guilt of all of them was a foregone conclusion, and the Cheka merely
determined its gravity. The Cheka was not satisfied with a narrow mandate of
fighting "counterrevolution" if the latter term was to mean only armed resistance to
the ...
4
Joseph Stalin: A Biographical Companion
Before long,as the scourge of all enemies of the state, the Cheka became a law
unto itself. Its activities escalated unchecked, and in the words of Solzhenitsyn, it
evolved into “the only punitive organ in human history that combined in one set of
...
5
The Russian Civil War (1): The Red Army
There were 'line etryads\ which were parts of rifle or cavalry divisions, and
detached otryads, which were subordinated to armies and Fronts or to Cheka
units. The first avtotankmy otryads (auto-tank detachments) were formed in 1920
and had ...
6
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
In these times of Red Terror, Dzerzhinsky founded a new newspaper,
Ezhenedelnik VChK (Cheka weekly), which was openly intended to vaunt the
merits of the secret police and to encourage "the just desire of the masses for
revenge.
Stéphane Courtois, Mark Kramer, 1999
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Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews
16 But the appallingly cruel measures taken by the Cheka tormented him; the "
objective needs" of the revolution to protect itself were "in permanent conflict with
Dzerzhinsky 's emotional, romantic temperament, with his inborn compassion, ...
Albert S. Lindemann, 1997
8
Revolutionary Law and Order
to the Cheka. The Cheka soon became formally the Vecheka, or All-Russian
Extraordinary Commission. Ensconced in Moscow (the capital from March 1918),
it oversaw a network of local Chekas (Extraordinary Commissions).82 Vecheka ...
9
A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century
The September 3 issue of Izvestia carried a Cheka declaration which called upon
the working class to crush the "hydra of counterrevolution" by applying mass
terror. The same issue also contained a telegram from Stalin calling for "open,
mass ...
Jeffery T. Richelson, 1997
10
Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920
the local Cheka, and by July was the deputy of the head of the Kremenchug
Cheka. By September 1920 he was the head of Information and Intelligence for
the Politburo of the Cheka of the Aleksandria uezd. Mikhail Andreev (Sheinkman)
was ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHEKA»
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Cheka is used in the context of the following news items.
History of the Russian Revolutions and Civil War
The Bolsheviks appointed themselves as leaders of various ministries, established a political police (the Cheka) and seized control of the ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
The man who put the funk into Congolese music
You can hear his chunky funk guitar on tracks like Cheka Sena and funk horns on Zonga Vonvon, which also features wonderful vocals. «Bangkok Post, Jul 15»
Russia's Virtual Universe
The monument to the founder of the Cheka, the precursor of the K.G.B., was toppled in 1991, but Communist Party officials want it back in its ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
The Stalin Cult
He was assisted in his reign of terror by his secret police, which was originally called the Cheka and later became known as the GPU, NKVD and finally, KGB. «Chabad.org, Jul 15»
Checklist: Riga, Latvia
Entrance is by donation and includes admission to the former building of the KGB and Cheka, the Soviet secret police, on the corner of Brīvības ... «Paste Magazine, Jun 15»
Russia's Top Brass Preparing to Battle Dissent (Op-Ed)
Now the residents of the capital will have to vote on whether to restore the monument to the Cheka chief — and spend 450 million rubles ($8.1 ... «The Moscow Times, Jun 15»
Music Africa Presents 27th Annual Afrofest 2015, July 4-5, 2015 …
... Zal Sissokho, Sergio Perere & Chico Antonio (Senegal/Brazil/Mozambique), San Fan Thomas (Cameroon), Cheka Katenen Dioubate (Guinea), Tich Maredza ... «Digital Journal, Jun 15»
'Iron Felix' rears his ugly head in Moscow
Dzerzhinsky, known as the father of Russia's secret police, lead its first incarnation, the Cheka. Estimates of how many people were killed by ... «Deutsche Welle, Jun 15»
'A Very Dangerous Woman' – or, What Makes a Good Spy?
Moura was by this time both working for the Cheka – the Bolshevik political police – and falling for Lockhart. His plots came to nothing and he ... «International Policy Digest, Jun 15»
In Democratic Vote, Moscow Looks to Restore Soviet Symbol
At issue is a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, notorious leader of the Cheka — the Soviet secret police agency that would later become the KGB. «Foreign Policy, Jun 15»
