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Red Terror and White Terror (1918)

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Sep 1918 — An attempt on Lenin’s life is followed by the unleashing of the Cheka; the Whites answer in kind. Both sides institutionalize terror against class and political enemies. Their victims are remembered here without making a spectacle of them.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Outbreak of the Russian Civil War (chapter 8 of Russian Revolution)
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The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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