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All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission
All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission (; {{langx, ru, italic=yes, Всеукраинская чрезвычайная комиссия, ВУЧК) was a Soviet secret police and an affiliation of the Russian Cheka. It was also known as ''VUChK'' to distinguish it from its Russian version - ''VChK''. As its parent organization, VUChK was a Bolshevik penal agency that was effectively used to establish ''"Dictatorship of the proletariat"'' and was closely associated with the Red Terror. The commission was created on December 3, 1918, in Kursk and was subordinated to the Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine. To accomplish its task under VUChK and local extraordinary commissions were created military formations. Until 1920 it was controlled by the Narkom of Justice and the Supreme Socialist Inspection, after 1920 by the Narkom of Workers Peasants Inspection (Rabkrin). On March 22, 1922, the commission was reformed into the State Political Administration (DPU) by a resolut ...
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Vasiliy Mantsev
Vasiliy Nikolayevich Mantsev (; 5 March 1889 – 19 August 1938) was a Russian revolutionary and high-ranking official of the Cheka. Early career Mantsev was born in Moscow into a large family of Old Believers. His father was an office worker. He studied law at Moscow University, but did not graduate. He was active in the 1905 Revolution, joining the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906. After several arrests he was sent into internal exile, but in 1911 he escaped from Vladimir to France, and was a pupil at the school for revolutionaries that Vladimir Lenin had set up in Longjumeau. He returned to Moscow illegally in 1913, and was again arrested and exiled to Vologda Oblast. In 1916, he was called up for the Imperial Army. Career from 1917 At the time of the February Revolution, Mantsev's infantry regiment was based in Rostov, in Yaroslavl province where he was elected to the Rostov Soviet. During 1917 he returned to Moscow, where he played a ...
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Government Of Ukraine
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine (), is the highest body of state Executive (government), executive power in Ukraine. As the Cabinet of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR, it was formed on 18 April 1991, by the Law of Ukrainian SSR No.980-XII. Vitold Fokin was approved as the first Prime Minister of Ukraine. The cabinet is a collegiate body consisting of the cabinet's "presidium" composed of the Prime Minister of Ukraine and their vice prime ministers as well as other ministers who participate and vote on sessions of the cabinet. The prime minister presides over the cabinet. Some vice prime ministers may be appointed as the first vice prime ministers. Unlike the Soviet period of the government when presidium was actually a functioning institution, the current government presidium is nominal and vice prime ministers do not have much advantage over other ministers. All government decisions ar ...
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1918 Establishments In Ukraine
The ceasefire that effectively ended the World War I, First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people worldwide. In Russia, this year runs with only 352 days. As the result of Julian to Gregorian calendar switch, 13 days needed to be skipped. Wednesday, January 31 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was immediately followed by Thursday, February 14 ''(Gregorian Calendar)''. Events World War I will be abbreviated as "WWI" January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 8 – American president Woodrow Wilson presents the Fourteen Points as a basis for peace negotiations to end the war. * January 9 ...
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Soviet Intelligence Agencies
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow. The Soviet Union's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917. The new government, led by Vladimir Lenin, established the Russian SFSR, the world's first constitutionally communist state. The revolution was not accepted by all ...
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Defunct Law Enforcement Agencies Of Ukraine
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Jurist Encyclopedia (Ukraine)
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyzes and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal education in law (a law degree) and often a Lawyer, legal practitioner. In the United Kingdom the term "jurist" is mostly used for legal academics, while in the United States the term may also be applied to a judge. With reference to Roman law, a "jurist" (in English) is a jurisconsult (''iurisconsultus''). The English term ''jurist'' is to be distinguished from similar terms in other European languages, where it may be synonymous with legal professional, meaning anyone with a professional law degree that qualifies for admission to the legal profession, including such positions as judge or attorney. In Germany, Scandinavia and a number of other countries ''jurist'' denotes someone with a professional law degree, and it may be a protected title, for example Legal education in Norway, in Norway. Thus ...
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Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
The ''Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia'' () was a multi-purpose encyclopedia of Ukraine, issued in the USSR. First attempt Following the publication of the first volume of the in Lviv, then in Poland, in 1930, the ''Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia'' (''USE'') was commissioned by Mykola Skrypnyk. During his chairmanship in Kharkiv the editorial board of the ''USE'' was established, enlisting the help of over 100 professionals. Printing began in early 1933, but Moscow censors decried the encyclopedia as being nationalist. Of the 20 planned volumes only three were produced. In the same year Skrypnyk committed suicide, and was succeeded by Volodymyr Zatonsky. The printed copies were destroyed, and plans for the November 1934 edition of USE dissolved. First edition In early 1948, interest in the ''USE'' returned as a response the publication of the '' Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies'' by Volodymyr Kubijovyč; an attempt to preserve a Ukrainian national heritage believed to be und ...
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Martin Latsis
Martin Ivanovich Latsis (; ; born Jānis Sudrabs; ; December 14, 1888 – February 11, 1938) was a Latvian Bolsheviks, Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet Union, Soviet politician, and senior state security officer of the Cheka from Courland (now Latvia). Life Born in the family of a Latvians, Latvian farmworker, Latsis was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1905 (an "Old Bolshevik"),Adelman, Jonathan R. (editor);''Terror and Communist Politics: The Role of the Secret Police in Communist States'' Westview Press, 1984; ; page 81 an active participant in the Russian Revolutions of Russian Revolution of 1905, 1905–1907 and Russian Revolution, 1917, a member of the Military Revolutionary Committee, a member of the Collegium of the All-Russia Cheka (1918–1921) and Chairman of the Cheka in Ukraine (1919), and a member of All-Russian Central Executive Committee, VTsIK. Between 1932 and 1937, Latsis w ...
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Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission ( rus, Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, r=Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, p=fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə tɕrʲɪzvɨˈtɕæjnəjə kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə, links=yes), abbreviated as VChK ( rus, ВЧК, p=vɛ tɕe ˈka), and commonly known as the Cheka ( rus, ЧК, p=tɕɪˈka), was the first Soviet secret police organization. It was established on by the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, and was led by Felix Dzerzhinsky. By the end of the Russian Civil War in 1921, the Cheka had at least 200,000 personnel. Ostensibly created to protect the October Revolution from "class enemies" such as the bourgeoisie and members of the clergy, the Cheka soon became a tool of repression wielded against all political opponents of the Bolshevik regime. The organization had responsibility for counterintelligence, oversight of the loyalty of the Red Army, and protection of the country's borders, as well ...
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Isaac Izrailevich Schwartz
Isaac ( ; ; ; ; ; ) is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baháʼí Faith. Isaac first appears in the Torah, in which he is the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob and Esau, and the grandfather of the twelve tribes of Israel. Isaac's name means "he will laugh", reflecting the laughter, in disbelief, of Abraham and Sarah, when told by God that they would have a child., He is the only patriarch whose name was not changed, and the only one who did not move out of Canaan. According to the narrative, he died aged 180, the longest-lived of the three patriarchs. Recent scholarship has discussed the possibility that Isaac could have originally been an ancestor from the Beersheba region who was venerated at a sanctuary. Etymology The anglicized name "Isaac" is a transliteration of the Hebrew name () which literally means "He laughs/will laugh". Ugaritic texts datin ...
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