ussr ; control of the ppl ; secret police ; attacks on opponents of the government

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when did lenin establish the bolshevik secret police?
'17
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called?
cheka
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under leadership of?
felix dzerzhinsky
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its task was to act against which two things?
counter-revolution and sabotage
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in civil war cheka given powers that allowed it to do what?
act with minimal interference from other legal bodies
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meaning it could act quickly to deal with?
actual and percieved enemies
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when was there an attempted assassination of lenin?
august'18
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by who?
fanya kaplin
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prompting wave of what?
arrests
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who did cheka intensify actions against in red terror of '21+'22?
socialist revolutionaries and mensheviks
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up to how many opponents were shot?
200,000
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what did execution now become?
rule > exception
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after civil war what happened to secret police/
reorganised
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cheka replaced by?
gpu
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in what year?
'22
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and in following year became?
ogpu
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what was significance of these changes?
growing independence from interference from other state institutions
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secret police became body that only took instructions from where?
party leadership
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in what year did power of secret police increase further?
'34
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when ogpu was merged with what?
enlarged Interior Ministry
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and the became?
nkvd
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what had stalin's programme of rapid industrialisation under 5yps identified?
large range opponents
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that needed to be dealt with to ensure what?
successful transformation of ussr
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who were deported to gulag?
kulaks + other peasants against collectivisation
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no. political opponents identified intensified after what?
show trial of kamzino
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in what year?
'36
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purges of which two groups resulted in widespread denunciations of the secret police?
right of the party + red army
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what were red army accused of doing?
working with the west to denouonce ussr
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when were arrests often undertaken by secret police?
middle of the night
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why?
to disorientate the accused
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then they were taken where?
secret police hq in the lubyanka building in moscow
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where what happened?
tortured until they confessed
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what had the ogpu chief for siberia helpfully produced?
handbook on torture methods (how helpful, right?)
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for high profile victims what would follow this torture?
show trial
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in which accused would do what?
admit to crimes and be sentenced to death
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part of deal with them was that public confession would do what?
save their family from prison
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was this promise always kept?
nah, the secret police were peak guys u rlly think they gonna elijah mikaelson that ****?
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what was the other deal?
naming associates in plots to undermine state
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