Moisei Uritsky

Moisei Solomonovich Uricki, was born in 1873 in Cherkasy. He was a Russian communist of Jewish origin.

Moisei Solomonovich Uricki was born in 1873 in Cherkasy into the family of a Jewish merchant. He graduated from law in Kiev, and was active in the Russian Social Democratic Labour PartyA socialist political party founded in 1898 in Minsk (then in Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire, present-day Belarus) and active until 1918. Formed to unite the various revolutionary organizations of the Russian Empire into one party, the RSDLP split in 1903 into Bolsheviks ("majority") and Mensheviks ("minority") factions, with the Bolshevik faction eventually becoming the Communist Party of the Soviet Union., BundThe General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia was a secular Jewish socialist party initially formed in the Russian Empire that existed from 1897 to 1948 and was active in several European countries from the 1890s to the second half of the 1940s. The Bund was an autonomous part of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1898-1903 and 1906-1912. Organisational remnants of the group are still active in the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK., in the MensheviksMensheviks (Russian: меньшевик, "being in the minority") - a faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, formed in 1903 at the Second Party Congress in Brussels, opposing the revolutionary direction in which Vladimir Lenin intended to lead the party. From 1917 a separate political party, formally banned from Soviet Russia in 1921. and BolsheviksThe Bolsheviks (Russian: Большевики́ 'majority') were a far-left, revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin that split with the Mensheviks from the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, a revolutionary socialist political party. After forming their own party in 1912, the Bolsheviks took power during the October Revolution in the Russian Republic in November 1917, overthrowing the Provisional Government, and became the only ruling party in the subsequent Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union. They considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary proletariat of Russia. Their beliefs and practices were often referred to as Bolshevism. factions. In 1905 he took part in the revolution in Petersburg and Krasnoyarsk, for which he was exiled in 1906. He wrote for Pravda, Vperiod and other Bolshevik newspapers. He was reluctant to sign the Treaty of Brest-LitovskThe Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed in 1918 between Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at German-controlled Brest-Litovsk, after two months of negotiations. The treaty was agreed upon by the Russians to stop further invasion. As a result of the treaty, Soviet Russia defaulted on all of Imperial Russia's commitments to the Allies and eleven nations became independent in eastern Europe and western Asia. by the Bolsheviks.

From March 1918 he headed the Petrograd ChekaCheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage / Speculation and Abuse of Power) - the acronym for the secret police in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922. From this name came the colloquial term for its officers - Chekists (Chekista); today it often refers also to officers of the state security organs such as KGB, FSB and SWR. The Cheka used methods such as hostage-taking and mass executions on an unprecedented scale. Machine guns were used for mass executions of counter-revolutionaries. So many death sentences were handed down in Petrograd that convicts were tied in pairs, loaded onto wooden barges in the evenings, taken out into the waters of the Gulf of Finland and sunk there. The establishment of internal order often involved mindless, appalling atrocities by the Cheka., was also Commissar of the Interior, and was directly responsible for the crimes of the Red Terror in Petrograd and its environs. In 1918 he was killed by the poet Leonid KannegiserLeonid Kannegiser was born in 1896 in Nikolaev, Ukraine, (then part of the Russian Empire), into a wealthy Jewish family. His father, Akim Kannegisser, was a mechanical engineer and the head of Russia's largest shipyards, the Black Sea Shipyard, and his mother was a doctor. Kannegisser graduated from a private school and in 1913 became a military cadet in the Mikhailov Artillery School of the Imperial Russian Army. Kannegisser studied economics at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute and was a member of Popular Socialists, a moderate left-wing anti-Communist political party. An admirer of Alexander Kerensky, during the October Revolution, Kannegisser and several other cadets defended the Provisional Government at the Winter Palace.. His death, parallel to the assassination of Lenin, became the pretext for the Bolsheviks to issue decrees on mass "red terror" and to give the Cheka unlimited powers to murder enemies of the people's power and to introduce the most murderous political system in the history of the world.