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This article is about the secret police of the Russian Empire. For the Slavophone militias in German occupied Macedonia during World War II, see Ohrana. For the security company of the National Guard of Russia, see Federal State Unitary Enterprise Guard (Russia).
There were a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time. The first secret police after the October Revolution, created by Vladimir Lenin's decree on December 20, 1917, was called "Cheka" (ЧК).
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Russian: Народный комиссариат внутренних дел, romanized: Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del, IPA: [nɐˈrodnɨj kəmʲɪsərʲɪˈat ˈvnutrʲɪnʲɪɣ dʲel]), abbreviated as NKVD (Russian: НКВД; listen ⓘ), was the interior ministry and secret police of the ...
29 mar 2022 · As the Soviet Union's primary secret intelligence agency during the Cold War, the KGB gained notoriety for its widespread global espionage. But the organization—and its communist-era...
Okhranka, (1881–1917), prerevolutionary Russian secret-police organization that was founded to combat political terrorism and left-wing revolutionary activity. The group’s principal mode of operation was through infiltration of labour unions, political parties, and, in at least two cases, newspapers: police agents were editors of the ...
6 dni temu · At its peak the KGB was the largest secret-police and foreign-intelligence organization in the world. Researchers with access to Communist Party archives put the number of KGB personnel at more than 480,000, including 200,000 soldiers in the Border Guards.
19 kwi 2021 · When the Soviet Union broke up, the GRU's great rival, the KGB secret police, split in two - a domestic version called the FSB (which Russian President Vladimir Putin once led) and a foreign...
