Felix Dzerzhinsky

September 11, 1877 – July 20, 1926

Bolshevik revolutionary of Polish origin; founder and head of the Cheka (1917), then the GPU and OGPU - the Soviet secret police. Directed the Red Terror during the Civil War.

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Affiliations

Party membership

• from Jan 1, 1899 Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
• Jan 1, 1917 – Jul 20, 1926 Bolsheviks Joined the Bolsheviks in 1917 after release from tsarist prison (previously SDKPiL)
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Social Democratic Party of Lithuania

Education

• Saint Petersburg State University

Timeline

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Russian Civil War

 

October Revolution