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From 1917 to his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky was first and foremost a Russian Communist, and Dzerzhinsky's involvement in the affairs of the Polish Communist Party (which was founded in 1918) was minimal. The energy and dedication that had previously been responsible for the building of the SDKPiL would henceforth be devoted to the priorities of ...
Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926) 20 December 1917 7 July 1918 199 days Vladimir Lenin (1917–1924) 2 Yakov Peters (1886–1938) 7 July 1918 22 August 1918 46 days 1: Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926) 22 August 1918 6 February 1922 3 years, 168 days Chairman of the GPU–OGPU (1922, 1923–1934) Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926) 6 February 1922 20 ...
In the autumn of 1926, shortly after Dzerzhinsky's death, Lubyanka Square was renamed Dzerzhinsky Square by the decision of the Presidium of the Moscow City Council. [ 1 ] In 1940, a competition was announced for the project of a monument to Dzerzhinsky, which was won by Sarra Lebedeva , who created a lifesized sculptural portrait of ...
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
After Felix Dzerzhinsky's death in July 1926 Menzhinsky became the chairman of the OGPU. Menzhinsky played a great role in conducting the secret Trust and Sindikat-2 counterintelligence operations, in the course of which leaders of large anti-Soviet centers abroad, Boris Savinkov and Sidney Reilly , were lured to the Soviet Union and arrested.
Dzerzhinsky, a Polish noble-turned-revolutionary who helped lay the foundations of the repressive system over which Josef Stalin was to preside, is reviled by dissidents but is a hero to the spies ...
After Lenin's death, the Lenin Call led to a massive increase in party membership, including those who did not share Bolshevik ideas but joined for career advancement. [citation needed] The funeral of Felix Dzerzhinsky took place in Moscow. His comrades-in-arms carried his coffin to the House of the Unions.
Maples recovered from the infection but was diminished, her family says. She died Feb. 4, 2012, after choking to death from a mucus obstruction that clogged her airway, an autopsy concluded. Maples' family believes the Vitas’ drug regimen weakened her, and the health crisis she suffered while under the hospice's care damaged her already frail ...