Terror

Question 1

By …, the Cheka had grown to … staff

Answer 1

March 1918, grown to 1000 staff

Question 2

Felix Dzerzhinsky on the Cheka:

Answer 2

“The Cheka is obliged to defend the revolution … even if its sword does by chance sometimes fall upon the heads of the innocent”

Question 3

Krasnaia Gazeta magazine:

Answer 3

“Without mercy, we will kill our enemies in scores of hundreds”

Question 4

Red Terror Decree:

Answer 4

5 September 1918

Question 5

Red Terror Decree authorised:

Answer 5

The Cheka to ‘execute anyone in White Guard organisations”

Question 6

Between … and … were executed by the Cheka during Red Terror:

Answer 6

100,000 to 500,000 people

Question 7

By the end of …, Soviet Russia had … concentration camps with approximately … prisoners

Answer 7

1920, 84 concentration camps with ~50,000 prisoners

Question 8

White Terror killed :

Answer 8

50,000 to 100,000 Jews

Question 9

Figes on the Red Terror:

Answer 9

“The Bolsheviks were forced to turn to terror to silence their political critics and subjugate a society they could not control by other means”

Question 10

Zinioev on the Terror (HP):

Answer 10

“We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia’s population. The rest … must be annihilated”