Cheka
What Cheka means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A secret police force created in December 1917 to suppress counter-revolution, speculation and sabotage, and later responsible for running the Red Terror.
The secret police during the Red Terror, under Dzerzhinsky, used to suppress political opponents and enforce compliance during the Civil War.
Topics that use Cheka
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The emergence of Communist dictatorship, 1917–1941 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Defending the Bolshevik revolution, October 1917–24 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Red Terror
- ban on factions
- Centralisation of power
- Collectivisation
- Command economy and industrialisation
- Constituent Assembly
- Continuity and change
- faction
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