Soviet war crimes in the Russian Civil War

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, abbreviated as VChK (), and commonly known as the Cheka (), was the first Soviet secret police organization. It was established on by the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, and was led by Felix Dzerzhinsky. By the end of the Russian Civil War in 1922, the Cheka had at least 200,000 personnel.

period of political repression and mass killings after the beginning of the Russian Civil War in 1918 carried out by Bolsheviks

1918 murder of Nicholas II of Russia and his family

Russian peasant revolt (1920-1921)

1918 ethnic clashes and massacres in Baku Governorate, Transcaucasia

Massacre of Japanese prisoners-of-war in the Far Eastern Republic during the Russian Civil War

steamships which transported intellectuals expelled from Soviet Union in 1922; mainly 2 German ships, Oberbürgermeister Haken and Preussen, which transported >160 Russian intellectuals and their families in Sept.–Nov. 1922 from Petrograd to Stettin

Mass starvation in the Tatar ASSR

conflict during the Russian Civil War

Catholic church in Gatchina, Russia

November 1920 evacuation of the Russian Army

part of the Russian Civil War

peasant Rebellion (1919)

1919 massacre in Tartu, Estonia