Category:Red Terror
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Articles related to the Red Terror (1918-1922), a campaign of political repression and executions in Soviet Russia which was carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police force. Decreed after assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin along with the successful assassinations of Petrograd Cheka leader Moisei Uritsky and party editor V. Volodarsky in alleged retaliation for Bolshevik mass repressions, the Red Terror was modeled on the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, and sought to eliminate political dissent, opposition, and any other threat to Bolshevik power.
Category:20th-century mass murder in Russia
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Category:Mass murder in Ukraine
Category:Murder in the Soviet Union
Category:Political repression in Russia
Category:Political repression in the Soviet Union
Category:Political repression in Ukraine
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Category:Soviet war crimes in the Russian Civil War