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For example, in a telegram, which became known as "Lenin's hanging order", he demanded to "crush" landowners in Penza and to publicly hang "at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers" [11] in response to a peasant revolt there; yet, only the 13 organizers of the murder of local authorities and the uprising were arrested, while ...
Memorial stone at the site of the 1918 attempt on Lenin's life. On August 30, 1918, at the Michelson Plant in Moscow, an attempt was made on Lenin, according to the official version – by the half–blind [6] Socialist Revolutionary Fanny Kaplan. As a result of the assassination attempt, Lenin was seriously wounded (the question of the ...
White Terror: 1918–1922 Nationwide 20,000 [1] to 300,000 [2] For the purposes of political repression and elimination of opposition to White rule. Red Terror: 1918–1922 Nationwide 100,000 [3] – 1,300,000 [4] For the purposes of political repression and elimination of opposition to Bolshevik rule. Sinhanch'on Incident: 1920, April 5
On Sept. 5, 1918, the Soviet government adopted a decree sanctioning “Red Terror,” which prescribed “mass shooting” to be “inflicted without hesitation.”
3.4 Anti-Kulak campaigns, Cheka, and Red Terror: 1918–1922. ... Lenin's government abolished private ownership of land, ... Before the attack could take place, ...
At the direction of Vladimir Lenin, the Cheka performed mass arrests, imprisonments, torture, and executions without trial in what came to be known as the "Red Terror". It policed the Gulag system of labor camps , conducted requisitions of food , and put down rebellions by workers and peasants.
In August, Lenin also instructed Dzerzhinsky to use "bribery and threats to exterminate the Cossacks to a man" if they attempted to destroy the oil in the city of Guryev. [25] The Pyatigorsk Cheka organized a "day of Red Terror" to execute 300 people in one day. They ordered local Communist Party organizations to draw up execution lists.
While Lenin was absent, of 5 September 1918 Sovnarkom passed a decree, "On Red Terror", which Lenin later endorsed. [185] This decree called for perceived class enemies of the proletariat to be isolated in concentration camps , and for those aiding the White Armies or rebellions to be shot; it decreed that the names of those executed should ...