Felix Dzerzhinsky
| 1877-09-11 - 1926-07-20 |
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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Party membership
- Bolsheviks (1917-01-01 - 1926-07-20) — Joined the Bolsheviks in 1917 after release from tsarist prison (previously SDKPiL)
