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red terror 17-21 (cheka (purpose (main instrument to terrorize and…
red terror 17-21
cheka
created in 1917
under direction of Dzerzhinsky
purpose
main instrument to terrorize and subservience Russian
means
no law controls it
answerable to Lenin
unlimited power of arrest and tortue
arrest/tortue 30 million Russians
destory counterrevolution
class war
pretext
murder of Tsarist familt
war aganist the whole class; not individual
all pretense of law abandoned
evidence no longer needed
labour camps
member
white enemies
prisoner of war
uncooperative peasants
means
deliberate hunger/ harsh beatings
crush trade union
means
end the independence of teade union
set restriction
ban on the questioning of orders
penalities for those who not met targets
purpose
control the working calss
train them like soldiers/ not like"nomad"
show trials
means
opponents of Bolsheviks
put on public humiliating show trials
politicize law
law not as the guardian of society
but the extension of political control