Tcheka

Claire Messud provides a perceptive introduction; Sandra Smith's translations are of the highest quality, though the decision to give Russian names in their French forms is puzzling: Pobiedonostsef, Tcheka instead of Pobedonostsev, Cheka.

Irène Némirovsky: The Dogs & the Wolves Coetzee, J.M. 2008

The usual arrests followed and many workers were still in the Tcheka.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

She was much worried lest a member of the Tcheka or a Red Army man be assigned to the vacant room.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

"Would not the Tcheka prefer to confiscate the goods of the big delicatessen and fruit stores on the Kreschatik?"

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

The Tcheka especially was doing ghastly work, having resurrected the old Tsarist methods, including even torture.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

This kind of "management" and the numerous slew laws and edicts, often mutually conflicting, served the Tcheka as a pretext to terrorize and mulct the citizens and aroused general hatred against the Bolsheviki.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

He alsc 'addressed the meeting, but he failed to make his escape: he landed in the Tcheka.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

The Anarchists who protested against it were arrested by the Tcheka.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

On several occasions she was tortured by being taken out at night and informed that she was to be shotÛa favoured Tcheka method.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

That my friends were not exaggerating when they spoke of tortures by the Tcheka, I also learned from other sources.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923