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Bookmark or Share- Red Terror - WikipediaThe Red Terror (Russian: красный террор, romanized: krasnyy terror) was a campaign of political repression and executions in Soviet Russia carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. It officially started in early September 1918 and lasted until 1922.
- How the Red Terror set a macabre course for the Soviet UnionLed by Vladimir Lenin, the left-wing Bolshevik regime sought to silence its enemies through a state-sanctioned policy of mass killings and detainments known as the Red Terror.
- Red Terror | Soviet history | BritannicaThe formal “Red Terror” began in September 1918. The pretext was a nearly successful attempt on the life of Lenin by a Socialist Revolutionary, Fannie Kaplan. As soon as he recovered from what could have been fatal wounds, Lenin ordered the Cheka to carry out mass executions…
- What Was the Red Terror? - ThoughtCoThe Red Terror was a program of mass repression, class extermination and execution carried out by the Bolshevik government during the Russian Civil War.
- Red Terror - Encyclopedia.comInitiated in 1918, Red Terror was a state policy of the Bolshevik government to suppress, intimidate, or liquidate real or potential adversaries of the regime. It started on September 5, when the survival of the Bolshevik regime was threatened by foreign and domestic foes.
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