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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.
The Cheka was the first secret police force of the Soviet Union, established by the government in the early Soviet period and led by Felix Dzerzhinsky. It matters historically because it represented the Soviet state's organized system of internal security and control, growing to at least 200,000 personnel by the end of the Russian Civil War in 1922.
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Key facts
- Government agency.agency_name
- All-Russian Extraordinary Commission
- Government agency.logo
- GPU 5th anniversary emblem.png
- Government agency.logo_width
- 150px
- Government agency.logo_caption
- Badge commemorating 5 years of the Cheka–GPU
- Government agency.superseding
- GPU
- Government agency.headquarters
- 2 Gorokhovaya Street, Petrograd Lubyanka Square, Moscow
- Government agency.chief1_name
- Felix Dzerzhinsky (1917–1918)
- Government agency.chief2_name
- Jēkabs Peterss (1918) (acting)
- Government agency.agency_type
- Secret policeIntelligence agency
- Government agency.parent_agency
- Council of People's Commissars
- Government agency.chief3_name
- Felix Dzerzhinsky (1918–1922)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- secret police
- Headquarters
- Saint Petersburg
- Parent organization
- Council of people's commissars of the RSFSR
- Chairperson
- Jēkabs Peterss
- Followed by
- State Political Directorate
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- Commons category
- Cheka
- topic's main category
- Category:Cheka
- inception
- 1917-12-20
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1922-02-06
- short name
- ВЧК при СНК РСФСР
- native label
- Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия по борьбе с контрреволюцией и саботажем при Совете народных комиссаров РСФСР
- replaces
- Okhrana
- replaced by
- Joint State Political Directorate
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- applies to jurisdiction
- Council of people's commissars of the RSFSR
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