Red Terror Dbq

The Red Terror, where what started out as a political feud, quickly turned into a mass genocide of innocent people in Russia. A campaign of massive killings, torture, and “systematic oppression” lead by the Bolsheviks and the secret police. All of what started after an attempt to assassinate “Vladimir Lenin by Fanni Kaplin and the murder of the Cheka Leader in St. Petersburg” (“The Red Terror.”). In this failed attempt Lenin came up with a secret police, the Cheka, to punish and kill anyone who was thought to be a threat towards Lenin or the Bolshevik rule. The Cheka was so powerful, that there was not anyone to really stop them. Although their intentions were to defend and protect the Bolshevik rule and keep everyone safe, their priorities

When they started to lose control of the citizens, they would show why they were in control, they themselves did not actually work for the government, though. Throughout this whole mess, you will see them as the “abusers of power” showing what they would do what they sought fit to anyone they believed were a threat or danger to the Bolshevik rule. Most of them could “find no greater ‘joy’ or better music than ‘the cracking of broken lives and bones” as they executed prisoners(“The Record of the Red Terror.”). They basically instigated the whole project into the mass killings in manipulated the whole project into their favor, they were kind of like a “government within a government”(The record of the Red Terror.). They used working under the radar to their advantage because even scholars well know there was way more killings and torture than what had been discovered. They got away with it, though, because there is no records or evidence found for them. Although that evidence can not be found for the full proof, many can see and do know they are the main reason for this mass genocide, and why it became to be as horrid as it