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Cheka ( ?? - ????????´???? ????´???? chrezvychaynaya komissiya , Emergency Commission ) was the first of a succession of Soviet Union|Soviet state security organizations. It was created by a decree issued on December 20, 1917, by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by Aristocracy (class)|aristocrat -turned- communist Felix Dzerzhinsky . After 1922, the Cheka underwent Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies|a series of reorganization s into bodies whose members continued to be referred to as "Chekisty" (Chekists) into the late 1980s and with Vladimir Putin 's rise to power reference to the FSB people as "Chekists" returned and is very much alive still today, with an obvious negative connotation when used by the opposition.

From its founding, the Cheka was an important military and security arm of the Bolshevik communist government. In 1921 the Internal Troops|Troops for the Internal Defense of the Republic (a branch of the Cheka) numbered 200,000. These troops policed labor camps ; ran the Gulag system; conducted Prodrazvyorstka|requisitions of food ; subjected political opponents to torture and summary execution ; and put down rebellions and riots by workers and peasants, and mutinies in the desertion-plagued Red Army .Nicolas Werth, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Panné, Jean-Louis Margolin, Andrzej Paczkowski, Stéphane Courtois , The Black Book of Communism : Crimes, Terror, Repression , Harvard University Press , 1999, hardcover, 858 pages, ISBN 0-674-07608-7

Name

The name of the agency was originally The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Anti-Soviet agitation|Counter-Revolution and Sabotage
(; ''Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya po bor'bye s kontrrevolyutsiyei i sabotazhem ), but was often shortened to Cheka or VCheka . In 1918 its name was changed, becoming All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Profiteering (business)|Profiteering and Political corruption|Corruption .

A member of Cheka was called a chekist . Also, the term "chekist" often referred to Soviet secret police throughout the Soviet period, despite official name changes over time. In The Gulag Archipelago , Alexander Solzhenitsyn recalls that White Sea-Baltic Canal#Commemoration|zeks in the Gulag|labor camps used "old 'Chekist'" as "a mark of special esteem" for particularly experienced camp administrators. The term is still found in use in Russia today (for example, President Vladimir Putin has been referred to in the Russian News media|media as a "chekist" due to his career in the KGB ).

The Chekists commonly dressed in black leather, including long flowing coats, reportedly after being issued such distinctive coats early in their existence. Western communism|communist s adopted this clothing fashion.

History

Creation

In the first month and half after the October Revolution , the duty of "extinguishing the resistance of exploiters," was assigned to the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee (or VRK). It represented a temporary body working under directives of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party|RDSRP ( Bolshevik|b ). The VRK created new bodies of government, organized food delivery to cities and the Army, requisitioned products from bourgeoisie , and sent its emissaries and agitators to provinces. One of its most important functions was the security of revolutionary order , and the fight against counterrevolutionary activity (see Anti-Soviet agitation ).

On December 1, 1917 the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK or TsIK) All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK or TsIK) is not to be confused with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party|RDSRP ( Bolshevik|b ) reviewed a proposed reorganization of the VRK, and possible replacement of it. On December 5, the Petrograd VRK published an announcement of dissolution and transfer the functions to the department of TsIK to the fight against "counterrevolutionaries." On December 6, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) strategized how to persuade government workers to strike across Russia. They decided that a special commission was needed to implement the "most energetically revolutionary" measures. Felix Dzerzhinsky (the Iron Felix) was appointed as Director and invited the participation of the following individuals: V. K. Averin, V. N. Vasilevsky, D. G. Yevseyev, N. A. Zhydelev, I. K. Ksenofontov, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze|G. K. Ordjonikidze , Yakov Peters|Ya. Kh. Peters , K. A. Peterson, Valentin Trifonov|V. A. Trifonov .

On December 7, all invited except Zhydelev and Vasilevsky gathered in Smolny Institute|Smolny to discuss the competence and structure of the commission to combat counterrevolution and sabotage. The obligations of the commission were, "to liquidate to the root all of the counterrevolutionary and sabotage activities and all attempts to them in all of Russia, to hand over counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs to the revolutionary tribunal (Russia)|revolutionary tribunal s, develop measures to combat them and relentlessly apply them in real world applications. The commission should only conduct a preliminary investigation ". The commission should also observe the press and counterrevolutionary parties, sabotaging officials and other criminals. It was decided to create three sections: informational, organizational, and a unit to combat counter-revolution and sabotage. Upon the end of the meeting, Dzerzhinsky reported to the Sovnarkom with the requested information. The commission was allowed to apply such measures of repression as 'confiscation, deprivation of ration cards, publication of lists of enemies of the people etc.'". That day, Sovnarkom officially confirmed the creation of VCheKa. The commission was created not under the VTsIK as was previously anticipated, but rather under the Council of the People's Commissars.

On December 8, some of the original members of the VCheka were replaced. Averin, Ordzhonikidze, and Trifonov were replaced by V. V. Fomin, S. E. Shchukin, Ilyin, and Chernov. On the meeting of December 8, the presidium of VChK was elected of five members, and chaired by Dzerzhinsky. The issue of " speculation " was raised at the same meeting, which was assigned to Peters to address and report with results to one of the next meetings of the commission. A circular published on , gave the address of VCheka's first headquarters as "Petrograd, Gorokhovaya 2, 4th floor". On December 11, Fomin was ordered to organize a section to suppress "speculation." And in the same day VCheKa offered Shchukin to conduct arrests of counterfeiters.

In January 1918, a subsection of the anti-counterrevolutionary effort was created to police bank officials. The structure of VCheKa was changing repeatedly. By March 1918, when the organization came to Moscow, it contained the following sections: against counterrevolution, speculation, non-residents, and information gathering. By the end of 1918-1919 secretly operative, investigatory, of transportation, military (special), operative, and instructional units were created. By 1921, it changed once again forming the following sections: directory of affairs, administrative-organizational, secretly operative, economical, and foreign affairs.

First months

In the first months of its existence, VCheKa consisted of only 40 officials. It commanded a team of soldiers, the Sveaborgesky regiment, as well as a group of Red Guardsmen. On January 14, 1918 Sovnarkom ordered Dzerzhinsky to organize teams of energetic and ideological sailors to combat speculation. By the spring of 1918, the commission had several teams. In addition to the Sveaborge team, it had an intelligence team, a team of sailors, and a strike team. Through the winter of 1917-1918, all the activities of VCheKa were centralized mainly the city of Petrograd, and was one of the several other commissions in the country that fought against counterrevolution, speculation, banditry, and other activities perceived as crimes. Other organizations included the Bureau of Military Commissars, and an Army-Navy investigatory commission to attack the counterrevolutionary element in the Red Army ; Central Requisite and Unloading Commission to fight speculation; investigation of counterrevolutionary and major criminal offenses was conducting by the Investigatory Commission of Revtribunal. The functions of VCheKa were closely intertwined with the Commission of Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich|V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich which beside the fight against wine pogroms was engaged in the investigation of most major political offenses (see Bonch-Bruyevich Commission ).

All results of its activities, VCheKa had either transfer to the Investigatory Commission of Revtribunal or dismiss a case. The control of the commission's activity was provided by the Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)|People's Commissariat for Justice (Narkomjust, at that time headed by Isidor Steinberg) and Internal Affairs (NKVD, at that time headed by Hryhoriy Petrovsky ). Although the VCheKa was officially an independent organization from the NKVD , its main members such as Dzerzhinsky, Martin Latsis|Latsis , Józef Unszlicht|Unszlicht , and Moisei Uritsky|Uritsky (all main chekists), since November 1917 composed the collegiate of NKVD headed by Petrovsky. In November 1918, Petrovsky was appointed as the head of the All-Ukrainian Central Military Revolutionary Committee during VCheKa's expansion to provinces and front-lines. At the time of political competition between Bolsheviks and SRs (January 1918), Left Socialist-Revolutionaries|Left SRs attempted to curb the rights of VCheKa and establish through the Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)|Narkomiust its control over its work. Having failed in attempts to subordinate the VCheKa to Narkomiust, the Left SRs were to seek control of the Extraordinary Commission in a different way. They requested that to the Central Committee of they party was granted the right to directly enter their representatives into the VCheKa. Sovnarkom recognized the desirability of including five representatives of Left Socialist-Revolutionary faction of VTsIK. Left SRs were granted the post of a companion (deputy) chairman of VCheKa. However, Sovnarkom, in which the majority belonged to the representatives of RSDLP(b) retained the right to approve members of the collegium of the VCheKa.

Originally, the members of the Cheka were exclusively Bolshevik ; however, in January 1918, Left Socialist-Revolutionaries|left SRs also joined the organizationSchapiro (1984). The Left SRs were expelled or arrested later in 1918, following the attempted assassination of Lenin by an SR, Fanni Kaplan .

Consolidation of VCheKa and National Establishment

By the end of January 1918, the Investigatory Commission of Petrograd Soviet (probably same as of Revtribunal) petitioned Sovnarkom to delineate the role of detection and judicial-investigatory organs. It offered to leave for the VCheKa and the Commission of Bonch-Bruyevich only the functions of detection and suppression while investigative functions entirely transfer to it. The Investigatory Commission prevailed. On January 31, 1918 Sovnarkom ordered to relieve VCheKa of the investigative functions, leaving for the commission only the functions of detection, suppression, and prevention of so-called crimes. At the meeting of the Council of People's Commissars on January 31, 1918, a merger of VCheKa and the Commission of Bonch-Bruyevich was proposed. The existence of both commissions VCheKa of Sovnarkom and the Commission of Bonch-Bruyevich of VTsIK with almost the same functions and equal rights became impractical. A decision followed two weeks later. Izvestiya . February 28, 1918.

On February 23, 1918 VCheKa sent a radio telegram to all Soviets with a petition to immediately organize emergency commissions to combat counter-revolution, sabotage and speculation, if such commissions had not been yet organized. February 1918 saw the creation of local Extraordinary Commissions. One of the first founded was the Moscow Cheka. Sections and commissariats to combat counterrevolution were established in other cities. The Extraordinary Commissions arose, usually in the areas during the moments of the greatest aggravation of political situation. On February 25, 1918 as the counterrevolutionary organization Union of front-liners was making advances, the executive committee of the Saratov Soviet formed a counter-revolutionary section. On March 7, 1918, because of the move from Petrograd to Moscow, the Petrograd Cheka was created. On March 9, a section for combating counterrevolution was created under the Omsk Soviet. Extraordinary commissions were also created in Penza , Perm , Novgorod , Cherepovets , Rostov , Taganrog . On March 18, VCheKa adopted a resolution The Work of VCheKa on the All-Russian Scale foreseeing the formation everywhere of Extraordinary Commissions after the same model, and sent a letter that called for the widespread establishment of the Cheka in combating counterrevolution, speculation, and sabotage. Establishment of provincial Extraordinary Commissions was largely completed by August 1918. In the Soviet Republic, there were 38 guberniya|gubernatorial Chekas (Gubcheks) by this time.

On June 12, 1918, the All-Russian Conference of Cheka adopted the Basic Provisions on the Organization of Extraordinary Commissions . They set out to form Extraordinary Commissions not only at Oblast and Guberniya levels, but also at the large Uyezd Soviets. In August 1918, in the Soviet Republic had accounted for some 75 Uyezd-level Extraordinary Commissions. By the end of the year, 365 Uyezd-level Chekas were established. In 1918, the All-Russia Extraordinary Commission and the Soviets managed to establish a local Cheka apparatus. It included Oblast, Guberniya, Raion , Uyezd , and Volost Chekas, with Raion and Volost Extraordinary Commissioners. In addition, border security Chekas were included in the system of local Cheka bodies.

In the autumn of 1918, as consolidation of the political situation of the republic continued, a move toward elimination of Uyezd-, Raion-, and Volost-level Chekas, as well as the institution of Extraordinary Commissions was considered. On January 20, 1919, VTsIK adopted a resolution prepared by VCheKa, On the abolition of Uyezd Extraordinary Commissions . On January 16 the presidium of VCheKa approved the draft on the establishment of the Politburo at Uyezd militsiya . This decision was approved by the Conference of the Extraordinary Commission IV, held in early February 1920.

Other types of Cheka

On August 3, a VCheKa section for combating counterrevolution, speculation and sabotage on railways was created. On August 7, 1918 Sovnarkom adopted a decree on the organization of the railway section at VCheKa. Combating counterrevolution, speculation, and malfeasance on railroads was passed under the jurisdiction of the railway section of VCheKa and local Cheka. In August 1918, railway sections were formed under the Gubcheks. Formally, they were part of the non-resident sections, but in fact constituted a separate division, largely autonomous in their activities. The gubernatorial and oblast-type Chekas retained in relationship to the transportation sections only control and investigative functions.

The beginning of a systematic work of organs of VCheKa in RKKA refers to July 1918, the period of extreme tension of the Russian Civil War|civil war and class struggle in the country. On July 16, 1918, the Council of People's Commissars formed the Extraordinary Commission for combating counterrevolution at the Czechoslovak (Eastern) Front led by Martin Latsis|M. I. Latsis . In the fall of 1918 Extraordinary Commissions to combat counterrevolution on the Southern (Ukraine) Front were formed. In late November, the Second All-Russian Conference of the Extraordinary Commissions accepted a decision after the report of I. N. Polukarov to establish at all frontlines and army sections of the Cheka and granted them right to appoint their commissioners in military units. On December 9, 1918, the collegiate (or presidium) of VCheKa had decided to form a military section, headed by Mikhail Sergeevich Kedrov|M. S. Kedrov to combat counterrevolution in the Army. In early 1919, the military control and the military section of VCheKa were merged into one body, the Special Section of the Republic. Kedrov was appointed as head. On January 1, he issued an order to establish the Special Section. The order instructed agencies everywhere to unite the Military control and the military sections of Chekas and to form special sections of frontlines, armies, military districts, and guberniya s.

In November 1920 the Soviet of Labor and Defense created a Special Section of VCheKa for the security of the state border.

On February 6, 1922 after the Ninth All-Russian Soviet Congress, the Cheka was dissolved by VTsIK, "with expressions of gratitude for heroic work." It was replaced by the State Political Administration or Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie|GPU , a section of the NKVD of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR).

Operations

Suppression of political opposition

Initially formed to fight against counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs as well as financial speculators, Cheka had its own classifications. Those counter-revolutionaries fell under these categories:
# Any civil or military servicemen suspected of working for Imperial Russia
# Families of officers-volunteers (including children)
# All clergy
# Workers and peasants who are under suspicion of not supporting the Soviet government
# Any other person whose private property was valued at over 10,000 rubles

As its name implied, the Extraordinary Commission had virtually unlimited powers and could interpret them in any way it wished. No standard procedures were ever set up, except that the Commission was supposed to send the arrested to the Military-Revolutionary tribunals if outside of a war zone—this left an opportunity for wide range of interpretations, as the whole country was in total chaos. At the direction of Lenin, the Cheka performed mass arrests, imprisonments, and executions of " enemies of the people ". In this, the Cheka said that they targeted "class enemies" such as the bourgeoisie , and members of the clergy ; the first organized mass repression began against the Libertarianism|libertarians and Socialists of Petrograd in April 1918. Over the next few months, 800 were arrested and shot without trial.

However, within a month, the Cheka had extended its repression to all political opponents of the communist government, including Anarchism|anarchists and others on the left. On April 11–12, 1918, 26 anarchist political centres in Moscow were attacked. 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 were arrested and jailed after a pitched battle took place between the two groups. (P. Avrich. G. Maximoff) In response to the anarchists' resistance, the Cheka orchestrated a massive retaliatory campaign of repression, executions, and arrests against all opponents of the Bolshevik government in what came to be known as, Red Terror . The Red Terror , implemented by Dzerzhinsky on September 5, 1918, was vividly described by the Red Army journal Krasnaya Gazeta :

An early Bolshevik Victor Serge described in his book Memoirs of a Revolutionary :
The Cheka was also used against the armed anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine|Black Army of Nestor Makhno in the Ukraine. After the Black Army had served its purpose in aiding the Red Army to stop the White Army|Whites under Denikin , the Soviet communist government decided to eliminate the anarchist forces. In May 1919, two Cheka agents sent to assassinate Makhno were caught and executed.Avrich, Paul, Russian Anarchists and the Civil War , Russian Review, Volume 27, Issue 3 (July 1968), pp. 296-306

Many victims of Cheka repression were 'bourgeois hostages' rounded up and held in readiness for summary execution in reprisal for any alleged counter-revolutionary act. Lenin's dictum that it was better to arrest 100 innocent people than to risk one enemy going free ensured that wholesale, indiscriminate arrests became an integral part of the system.page 643, Figes (1996).

It was during the Red Terror that the Cheka, hoping to avoid the bloody aftermath of having half-dead victims writhing on the floor, developed a technique for execution known later by the German words Nackenschuss or Genickschuss , a shot to the nape of the neck, which caused minimal blood loss and instant death. The victim's head was bent forward and the executioner fired slightly downward at point blank range. This had become the standard method used later by the NKVD to liquidate Joseph Stalin 's Great Purge|purge victims and others.Paul, Allen. ''Katyn: Stalin's Massacre and the Seeds of Polish Resurrection . United States Naval InstituteGreat Purge|Naval Institute Press , 1996. ISBN 1-55750-670-1 pp. 111-112

Persecution of deserters

It is believed that more than three million deserter s escaped from the Red Army in 1919 and 1920. Approximately 500,000 deserters were arrested in 1919 and close to 800,000 in 1920 by troops of the dreaded 'Special Punitive Department' of the Cheka, created to punish desertions.Chamberlain, William Henry, The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921 , New York: Macmillan Co. (1957), p. 131 These troops were used to forcibly Repatriation|repatriate deserters, taking and shooting hostages to force compliance or to set an example. Throughout the course of the civil war, several thousand deserters were shot - a number comparable to that of belligerents during World War I .

In September 1918, according to The Black Book of Communism in only twelve provinces of Russia, 48,735 deserters and 7,325 "bandits" were arrested, 1,826 were killed and 2,230 were executed. The exact identity of these individuals is confused by the fact that the Soviet Bolshevik government used the term 'bandit' to cover ordinary criminals as well as armed and unarmed political opponents, such as the anarchists.

Number of victims

Estimates on Cheka executions vary widely. The lowest figures are provided by Dzerzhinsky’s lieutenant Martin Latsis|Martyn Latsis , limited to RSFSR over the period 1918& ndash;1920:

For the period 1918-July 1919, covering only twenty provinces of central Russia:

::1918: 6,300; 1919 (up to July): 2,089; Total: 8,389

For the whole period 1918-19:

::1918: 6,185; 1919: 3,456; Total: 9,641

For the whole period 1918-20:

::January–June 1918: 22; July–December 1918: more than 6,000; 1918-20: 12,733

Experts generally agree these semi-official figures are vastly understated.pages 463-464, Leggett (1986). Pioneering historian of the Red Terror Sergei Melgunov claims that this was done deliberately in an attempt to demonstrate the government's humanity. For example, he refutes the claim made by Latsis that only 22 executions were carried out in the first six months of the Cheka's existence by providing evidence that the true number was 884 executions. Sergei Melgunov W. H. Chamberlin claims “it is simply impossible to believe that the Cheka only put to death 12,733 people in all of Russia up to the end of the civil war.”pages 74-75, Chamberlin (1935). Donald Rayfield concurs, noting that "plausible evidence reveals that the actual numbers . . . vastly exceeded the official figures." Donald Rayfield . Stalin and His Hangmen : The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him. Random House , 2004. ISBN 0-375-50632-2 Chamberlin provides the "reasonable and probably moderate" estimate of 50,000, while others provide estimates ranging up to 500,000., Rummel (1990). Several scholars put the number of executions at about 250,000., Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield , paperback edition, Basic books, 1999.page 180, Overy, ''The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, W. W. Norton & Company; 1st American Ed edition, 2004. Some believe it is possible more people were murdered by the Cheka than died in battle.page 649, Figes (1996).

Lenin himself seemed unfazed by the killings. On 12 January 1920, while addressing trade union leaders, he said:

"We did not hesitate to shoot thousands of people, and we shall not hesitate, and we shall save the country."
pages 72 & 73, Volkogonov (1998).

On 14 May 1921, the Politburo , chaired by Lenin, passed a motion "broadening the rights of the in relation to the use of the ."page 238, Volkogonov (1994).

Atrocities

The Cheka is reported to have practiced torture . Victims were reportedly skinned alive, scalped, "crowned" with barbed wire, impaled, crucified, hanged, stoned to death, tied to planks and pushed slowly into furnaces or tanks of boiling water, and rolled around naked in internally nail-studded barrels. Chekists reportedly poured water on naked prisoners in the winter-bound streets until they became living ice statues. Others reportedly beheaded their victims by twisting their necks until their heads could be torn off. The Chinese in Russian Revolution|Chinese Cheka detachments stationed in Kiev reportedly would attach an iron tube to the torso of a bound victim and insert a rat into the other end which was then closed off with wire netting. The tube was then held over a flame until the rat began gnawing through the victim's guts in an effort to escape. Anton Denikin 's investigation discovered corpses whose lungs, throats, and mouths had been packed with earth.pages 177-179, Melg(o)unov (1925)., Lincoln (1999).page 646, Figes (1996).

Women and children were also victims of Cheka terror. Women would sometimes be tortured and raped before being shot. Children between the ages of 8 and 13 were imprisoned and occasionally executed.page 198, Leggett (1986).

All of these atrocities were published on numerous occasions in Pravda and Izvestiya : January 26, 1919 Izvestiya #18 articale Is it really a medieval imprisonment? («??????? ????????????? ????????? »); February 22, 1919 Pravda #12 publishes details of the Vladimir Cheka's tortures, September 21, 1922 Socialist Herald publishes details of series of tortures conducted by the Stavropol Cheka (hot basement, cold basement, scull measuring etc.).

The Chekists were also supplemented by the militarized Units of Special Purpose (the Party's Spetsnaz or ).

Cheka was actively and openly utilizing kidnapping methods. ?. ?. ???????. «????????? ??????? ??????? ???-????-????», 1918—1922, ?., 1998. // ???? (?????????? ??????????????? ??????-???????????? ?????), 33987/3/32. With kidnapping methods Cheka was able to extinguish numerous cases of discontent especially among the rural population. Among the notorious ones was the Tambov rebellion .

Villages were bombarded to complete annihilation like in the case of Tretyaki, Novokhopersk uyezd, Voronezh Governorate .
As a result of this relentless violence more than a few Chekists ended up with psychopathic disorders, which Nikolai Bukharin said were "an occupational hazard of the Chekist profession." Many hardened themselves to the executions by heavy drinking and drug use. Some developed a gangster-like slang for the verb to kill in an attempt to distance themselves from the killings, such as 'shooting partridges', of 'sealing' a victim, or giving him a natsokal (onomatopoeia of the trigger action).page 647, Figes (1996).

On November 30, 1992, by the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Red Terror as unlawful, which in turn led to suspension of the Communist Party of the RSFSR.

Regional Chekas

Cheka departments were organized not only in big cities and guberniya seats, but also in each uyezd , at any front-lines and military formations. Nothing is known on what resources they were created. A lot who was hired to head those departments were so called nestlings of Alexander Kerensky|Kerensky (), the former convicts (political and criminal) that released by the Kerensky amnesty.
;Moscow Cheka (1918–1919)
Chairman - Felix Dzerzhynsky , Deputy - Yakov Peters (initially heading the Petrograd Department), other members - Shklovsky, Kneyfis, Tseystin, Razmirovich, Kronberg, Khaikina, Karlson, Shauman, Lentovich, Rivkin, Antonov, Delafabr, Tsytkin, Nikolai Krylenko#Legacy|Yelena Rozmirovich (wife of Krylenko), G.Sverdlov, Bizensky, Yakov Blumkin , Aleksandrovich, Fines, Zaks, Yakov Goldin , Galpershtein, Kniggisen, Martin Latsis (later transferred to Kyiv), Deybol, Seyzan, Deybkin, Libert (chief of jail), Fogel, Zakis, Shillenkus, Yanson.
;Petrograd Cheka (1918–1919)
Chairman - Meinkman, Moisei Uritsky (replaced Peters after his transfer), Giller, Kozlovsky, Model, Rozmirovich, I.Diesporov, Iselevich, Krassikov, Bukhan, Merbis, Paykis, Anvelt.
;Kharkov Cheka
Comrade Eduard, Stepan Saenko, Mykola Khvylovy (Bohodukhiv uyezd).
;Kiev Cheka
Chairman - Martin Latsis , other members - Avdokhin, Comrade Vera, Rosa Shvarts.
;Odessa Cheka
Deych, Vikhman, Timofey, Vera (Dora) Grebenshchikova, Aleksandra (aged 17).
;Simferopol Cheka
Ashykin.

Popular culture

The Cheka were popular staples in Soviet film and literature. This was partly due to a romanticization of the organisation in the post-Stalin period, and also because they provided a useful action/detection template. Films featuring the Cheka include Ostern s Miles of Fire , Nikita Mikhalkov 's At Home among Strangers , the miniseries The Adjutant of His Excellency , and also Dead Season starring Donatas Banionis and the 1992 in film|1992 cinema of Russia|Russian drama film The Chekist .

In Spain , during the Spanish Civil War , the detention and torture centers operated by the Communists were named checas after the Soviet organization. Alfonso Laurencic was their promoter, ideologist and builder. Rafael Chacón , Por qué hice las checas de Barcelona. Laurencic ante el consejo de guerra , Editorial Solidaridad nacional, Barcelona, 1939.

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