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Sign in to saveperiod of political repression and mass killings after the beginning of the Russian Civil War in 1918 carried out by Bolsheviks
Key facts
- Native name
- Красный террор ( post-1918 orthography), Красный терроръ (pre-1918 orthography)
- Date
- August 1918 – February 1922
- Location
- Soviet Russia , Soviet Ukraine and other locations
- Motive
- Political repression
- Target
- Anti-Bolshevik groups, clergy, rival socialists, counter-revolutionaries, peasants, and dissidents
- Organized by
- Cheka
- Deaths
- Mainstream estimates range between 50,000 and 600,000 ( see below )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical period
- Subclass of
- political repression
- Part of
- Russian Civil War
- Image
- 19180902-red terror-banner.jpg
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- Commons category
- Red Terror
- topic's main category
- Category:Red Terror
- different from
- Great Purge
- opposite of
- White Terror
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