The Secret Police under Lenin and The Bolsheviks

 In 1917, The Bolsheviks set out a series of revolutionary decrees on land and workers' control.

The new government created a secret police agency, ( the Cheka) to persecute enemies of the state (including bourgeois liberals and moderate socialists).

The Cheka was headed by Feliks Dzerzhinsky.

A statue of Dzerzhinsky still stands outside the headquarters of the KGB in Moscow and in many cities and towns in Russia.

 The Bolshevik leader - Lenin encouraged the use of terror and violence to solve political, social and economic problems.

In 1918, he gave these instructions to Bolshevik leaders on how to deal with peasant leaders who did not…