Felix Dzerzhinsky
Sign in to saveBolshevik revolutionary and founder of the first Soviet secret police organs (1877-1926)
AI overview
Felix Dzerzhinsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary who founded and led the Soviet Union's first secret police organization, making him a central figure in establishing the Communist state's system of internal security and control. His role matters historically because the secret police apparatus he created became a key instrument through which the Soviet government maintained power and conducted political repression throughout its existence.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,587x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,528x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,953x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,326x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,795x
via Crossref · CC0
Article
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix (Russian: Железный Феликс), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet secret police organizations—the Cheka, the GPU and the OGPU—establishing state security organs for the new Soviet government.
Born to a Polish family of noble descent in Ozhyemblovo estate (now Dzerzhinovo), in Russian Poland, Dzerzhinsky embraced revolutionary politics from a young age, and was active in the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania party. Active in Kaunas and Warsaw, he was frequently arrested and underwent several exiles to Siberia, from which he escaped every time. He evaded the tsarist secret police, the Okhrana, whose work he took interest in. Dzerzhinsky participated in the failed 1905 Revolution, and pursued further revolutionary activities in Germany and Poland. after a final arrest in 1912, was imprisoned until the February Revolution of 1917. He then joined Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik party, and played an active role in the October Revolution which brought them to power.
Gallery (12)
Connections
Categories
1877 births1926 deaths20th-century Polish nobilityBelarusian people of Polish descentBurials at the Kremlin Wall NecropolisCandidates of the Orgburo of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)Candidates of the Orgburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)Candidates of the Orgburo of the 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)Candidates of the Politburo of the 13th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)