Lenin created the Cheka in order to establish one party control and perpetuate the Totalitarian state that he wished to used to carry out his Communist ideologies. The Cheka was an instrument of control, using fear and ambiguity to keep the masses in check and obedient
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The Cheka became the GPU, then the OGPU and then the NKVD under Stalin.
The Vecheka was Lenin's secret police; however it was more commonly known as the Cheka. The name was an acronym for the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage. It was later changed to the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Profiteering and Corruption.
Lenin's communist government established a body politic made up of more than a thousand representatives called what?
Cheka was a name for the Soviets Secret Police.
The Cheka (ЧК - чрезвычайная комиссия) was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations. It was created by a decree issued on December 20, 1917, by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. After 1922, the Cheka underwent a series of reorganizations.It was soon an important military force, crucial for survival of the Soviet regime. In 1921 the Troops for the Internal Defense of the Republic (a part of Cheka) numbered 200,000. These troops policed labor camps, ran the Gulag system, conducted requisitions of food, put down peasant rebellions, riots by workers, and mutinies in the Red Army, which was plagued by desertions.For the source and more detailed information concerning your request, click on the related links section (Answers.com) indicated below.