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What did Lenin's Cheka become under Stalin?
The Cheka became the GPU, then the OGPU and then the NKVD under Stalin.
What was the name of Lenins secret police?
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.
What was the purpose of the red secret police known as the cheka?
Lenin's communist government established a body politic made up of more than a thousand representatives called what?
What was the cheka?
Cheka was a name for the Soviets Secret Police.
What did the Cheka begin?
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.
