What’s the Context? 20 December 1917: formation of the Cheka, the first Soviet security and intelligence agency
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...source: newworldencyclopedia.org Before the October Revolution in 1917 that put the Bolsheviks in power in Russia, their long-exiled leader, Lenin, had insisted publicly that in a proletarian dictatorship there would...