The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922

by Edmond Taylor

Cheka. “Do not believe that I am concerned with formal justice,” warned the first head of the Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the strange Polish fanatic who was to be the Grand Inquisitor of the Bolshevik regime. “... I demand the forging of the revolutionary sword that will annihilate all counter-revolutionaries!”