Dzerzhinsky

Question 1

Dzerzhinsky key role

Answer 1

Head of Cheka

Question 2

Dzerzhinsky 2 key ideals

Answer 2

defeating anti-communist forces
instilling terror to keep communists in power

Question 3

When was the Cheka established?

Answer 3

7th December 1917

Question 4

When was the Decree on Red Terror passed?

What did it allow?

Answer 4

5th September 1918

gave Cheka unlimited power to fight threats to revolution

Question 5

3 events that took place under Red Terror

Answer 5

140,000 suspected counter-revolutionaries executed without trial

84 concentration camps established (could hold 50,000 at a time)

Dzerzhinsky expanded Cheka from 23 men (1917) to 100,000 (1921)

Question 6

When were the Romanovs executed?

significance of this?

Answer 6

July 1918

solidified Bolshevik power through eliminating symbol of old regime

Question 7

Effects of Red Terror
(3 points)

Answer 7

Russia transformed into police state with Bolsheviks becoming increasingly reliant on terror

all dissent silenced by 1921

support for Bolsheviks among workers and peasants declined