Felix Dzerzhinsky

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Felix Dzerzhinsky

Feliks Dzierżyński
Фе́ликс Дзержи́нский
Born11 September 1877
Ivyanets, Russian Empire
Died20 July 1926
Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityPolish
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)


Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (11 September 1877 – 20 July 1926) was a Bolshevik revolutionary. After the October Revolution, he was appointed to lead the Cheka to stop counterrevolutionary activity.[1]

References

  1. Joseph Stalin (1939). History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): 'The Bolshevik Party in the Period of Preparation and Realization of the October Socialist Revolution'. [MIA]