WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A Communist organization of secret police
A
Cheka
B
White Army
C
Bolsheviks
D
Black Hand
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cheka, also called Vecheka, early Soviet secret police agency and a forerunner of the KGB (q.v.).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Cheka was the Bolshevik security force or secret police. It was formed by Vladimir Lenin in a December 1917 decree and charged with identifying and dealing with potential counter-revolutionaries.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cheka, being Lenin’s first secret police, embodied Lenin’s views on violence for the revolution. Established in December 1917, the Cheka were a political police.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: The Russian Secret Police under Bolshevik rule was referred to by the name ‘Cheka’.

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