In this context, the adjective Chekist (from Cheka, the first Soviet secret police organization) emphasizes the importance and political power of Cheka and its successor Soviet and Russian secret police services, such as the NKVD, KGB, and FSB.
Cheka, first of a succession of Soviet state security organization
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He was arrested by the Cheka in September 1919 on suspicion of conspiracy with the White Russian forces of General Yudenich.
After the October revolution and the assassination of the head of Petrograd Cheka, Moisei Uritsky, Nakhchivanski together with some other prominent citizens of Petrograd was taken hostage by the Bolsheviks and executed in the Peter and Paul Fortress in January 1919.
Before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, McQuinn wrote and edited Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed under the pseudonym "Lev Chernyi" in honor of the Russian anarchist of that name, who was killed in 1921 by the Cheka (the Bolshevik secret police).
He was imprisoned on an island near Baku, and then transferred to the infamous Cheka prison, Lubianka in Moscow.
The Cheka at the Kholmogory camp adopted the practice of drowning bound prisoners in the nearby Dvina river.
Aralov was a founding member of the Cheka and in January 1918 he was appointed head of the Moscow Military District.
The Elusive Avengers, a posse of young Red Partisans, including Valerka, a former schoolboy, Yashka, a devil-may-care gypsy, and two orphan siblings, Danka and his sister Ksanka, become Cheka agents after successfully stealing the map in The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers.