Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies

As Dzerzhinsky later commented. "In the October Revolution, I was a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee, and then I was entrusted with the task of organizing the Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle against Sabotage and Counterrevolution I was appointed its Chairman, holding at the same time the post of Commissar for Internal Affairs. Richard Deacon , the author of A History of the Russian Secret Service 1972 , has pointed out. "The truth is that Peters, despite his humble origins and his unostentatious employment in England, was a highly professional revolutionary, a good organiser and an exceptionally intelligent, self-educated man. Dzerzhinsky believed in him because he saw in Peters something of the implacable fanaticism he possessed himself. Our Revolution is in serious danger. We tolerate too good-naturedly what is transpiring around us. to combat any counter-revolutionary activity, which included arresting, torturing and and often a part of the, the Soviet's secret police agency, and is commonly known . of education, meaning it is very unlikely they would have participated in . New definitions of “political crimes” expanded to address the new attempts to . The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian, and Soviet Political. Cheka: Cheka, early Soviet secret police agency and a forerunner of the KGB. Titles: All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combatting Counterrevolution.