All over the world, countries have created a type of secret police. The international term secret police can always be applied whether it is the United States CIA or Britain's MI6. As for Russia the name of their secret police was Cheka. The secret police, Cheka, was the Bolsheviks security force formed in 1917 by Vladimir Lenin. The purpose of this force was to carry out arrest, detentions, and executions without process of law. Cheka regularly used violence and torture publicly or privately to prove a point to others with mere thoughts of going against the soviet regime. Cheka was basically a military and security system of the Bolshevik communist government.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks
From the very beginning Lenin felt that Russia did not need to participate in World War I because it was the main cause for Russia problems Lenin`s belief were developed from Karl Marx, the father of communism. Lenin believed that a government should really represent the people of Russia, therefore he aimed to overthrow the Russian government because it was said to be the cause of misery in Russia. After being put in exile for sedition, Lenin returns to Russia after news of the February Revolution. The revolution was created from built up tension and Russia being under repression and unrest for a long period time. As a result the Tsar abdicated from the Russian Empire and the making of a Provisional Government. This made Lenin's plan to overthrow the government much simpler.
The October “Red” revolution in 1917 soon broke out. The revolution was led by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who captured the Provisional Government and appointed themselves leaders. The Bolsheviks leaders then signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 with Germany end ties w...
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... dealt with within 24 hours. The Red Terror last from September 1918 to October 1918.
The mind set of leaders are set to think that the enemies of the Bolshevik government should be “annihilated”. Lenin wrote to Dzerzhinsky that the opponents of the Bolshevik government should be made “to tremble”. It is thought that between 10,000 to 15,000 people were summarily executed by the Cheka in areas under control of the Bolsheviks Through this awful time there were no public trials. Those who harboured the thousands of deserters from the Red Army were arrested and punished as they were named “bandits”. The Red Terror resulted in the execution of men called bandits. However, the term becomes a term that fits all to explain the arrest and execution of suspects. This meant that many families suffered as the result of just one member of it defying the law.
Effect of Cheka
During the 19th century, Russia was experiencing a series of changes with its entire nation and society overall. The government was trying to adapt themselves to them at the same time. It was not an easy time period for Russia whatsoever. Vladimir Lenin helped change this.
In 1905 , Russia had a prerevolution that was put down of the Czar. Instead of learning from this prerevolution, Czar Nicholas II, made a very big mistake by in not introducing some reforms to correct the problems. So because of his actions, the situation grew worse. In 1917, the Russians were fighting in World War I. A good majority of the Russian people were weary and uncontent with the way the war was going and with the Czar's rule. This uncontent along with economic hardships caused riots and demonstrations to break out. The Czar called for the army to put down the revolution as they did in 1905. But the army joined the revolt and the Czar was kicked out of power soon afterwards. A temporary government was set up to decide on what kind of government Russia was gonna set up. Two political parties were set up. The Bolsheviks were one of the two. The leader of the Bolshevik party was a man named Lenin. Lenin was a firm believer of the theories and ideas of Karl Marx. So with his slogan of "Bread, Peace and Land", Lenin gained the support of the peasants and gained control of Russia and setup a communist state.
Lenin had read Karl Marx and his many works, such as the Communist Manifesto, Marx’s famous Communist pamphlet, which stated “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”, (38) and Das Marx, Marx’s long essay on his entire Communist economic plan. Although Marx thought that Communism would start in advanced, industrial countries, such as the U.S. and Britain, not a backwards country such as Russia, Lenin still used Marx’s ideas to overthrow the Tsar and bring Communism to power, and influence his Leninsm. “He spent whole days studying Marx, making digests, copying passages, jotting down notes,” wrote Yasneva.
President Barack Obama receives an average of 30 death threats a day, totalling close to 11,000 a year! But what prevents these people from carrying out their threats? The Secret Service. The United States Secret Service is well known for protecting the President and keeping him out of harm’s way, but they also investigate counterfeit, forgery, and financial crimes. The Secret Service has had a huge impact on the safety of the President, Vice-President, and their families. The Secret Service has had a long and interesting history, starting when President Abraham Lincoln established the United States Secret Service on April 14, 1865. That was the exact same day John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln! It was created at the advice of Hugh McCulloch, the Secretary of Treasury at the time and its main purpose was to stop the creation and circulation of counterfeit money. Started operating on July 5, 1865, with its first chief being William Wood. At one point in time, Congress thought about adding the protection of the President to the Secret Service’s list of duties, but it wasn’t added until James A. Garfield was assassinated in 1881 and William McKinley was assassinated in 1901 that they finally did. President Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to receive protection by the Secret Service in 1901, and every President after has has been protected by the USSS. Later on, the Secret Service became in charge of protecting others. After Robert Kennedy, a presidential candidate at the time, was assassinated in 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson made the Secret Service in charge of protecting presidential candidates as well. The Secret Service has had a lot of new jobs assigned to them, but their agents are the ones who help get the jobs done....
In 1934, Sergey Kirov a rival to Stalin was murdered. Stalin is believed to have been behind the assassination, he used it as a pretext to arrest thousands of his other opponents who in his words might have been responsible for Kirov’s murder. These purges not only affected those who openly opposed Stalin but ordinary people too. During the rule of Stain o...
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This played well with the workers and soldiers and made it difficult to criticise the new government. As a result, Lenin’s introduction of the Cheka (1917) and the emergence of the Red Terror (1918) ensured his rule was absolute not only within the party but across the Soviet Union. It is the accumulation of these factors that highlighted Lenin’s leadership and practicality following the seizing of power as well as changes to society with War Communism and the NEP and the use of terror which were all vital to consolidating Bolshevik power.
The Communist Party was one of the main sections in Soviet society that was impacted profoundly by Stalin’s terror. In 1935, the assassination of Sergei Kirov, a faithful Communist and Bolshevik party member that had certain popularity, threatening Stalin’s consolidation of power, initiated The Great Purge. His death, triggering three important, widely publicised ‘show trials’ in Moscow, ultimately encouraged the climate of terror during the Great Purge. Bolsheviks Zinoviev, Kamenev and their associates were accused of conspiring against Stalin and the government, with each confessing to their supposed crimes, which were then broadcast around the world. It was later discovered that these confessions were forced after long months of psychological abuse and cruel acts of torture. As Stalin...
The “Red Scare” was consuming many American’s lives following World War 1. After the war ended, anarchist bombings began, and a general fear of socialists, anarchists, communists, and immigrants swept the nation. There had always been resentment to immigrants in America, and these attacks just intensified these feelings. Americans were concerned that, because the Russian Revolution occurred, that it would happen in America next. The government began sweeping immigrants up and deporting them. Many innocent people were arrested because of their views against democracy. Although Sacco and Vanzetti were on trial for murder, their beliefs of how society should be run was the main focus in the trial.
In February of 1917 a group of female factory workers and led a revolt in which the Tsar was dethroned, only to be replaced by a provisionary government composed of the Russian elite. When this government did not live up to its promises of an end to Russian involvement in World War I, the Bolsheviks (“majority”), a revolutionary movement led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the provisionary government in what bacame known as the October revolution.
The red scare was a time where people were falsely accused of being communist spies, and would be sent to prison. If somebody hated their neighbor, a co-worker, or even a teacher they could just accuse them of being a communist spy. Some cases were even so severe as in the case with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. They were accused for stealing information on the atomic bomb and giving the information to the...
Also if you were arrested and imprisoned, you must 've been a member of the Red Army. The Red Army was a common name for the Russian National Military Forces. The army lasted from 1918 to 1946. The Red Army was created after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
In 1917, when the Tsar fell, that’s when Russia ended their hostile actions against the Central Powers. Even though the Bolsheviks knew this negotiation with Germany would add a huge cost to Russia; they still negotiated the Treaty of Brest-Litovesk with Germany. It started that Bolshevik Russia ceded the Baltic States to Germany and its province of Kars Oblast in the South Caucasus to the Ottoman Empire. And it also gave the Ukraine independence, but all of this still couldn’t stop America from entering in 1918. This war gave the combata...
Over the next few years, Russia went through a traumatic time of civil war and turmoil. The Bolsheviks’ Red Army fought the white army of farmers, etc. against Lenin and his ways. Lenin and the Bolsheviks won and began to wean Russia of non-conforming parties eventually banning all non-communist as well as removing an assembly elected shortly after the Bolshevik’s gain of power. Lenin’s strict government, however, was about to get a lot stricter with his death in 1924.
...hat he made. Whilst it could be argued that even though Lenin did get Russia out of WWI it could also be seen that he helped bring about a whole new war that was much more devastating to the people of Russia, the Russian civil war. However, Lenin did manage to bring about peace from the civil war in 1924. SOCIAL POLICIES