Chekists. Knights of the Revolution?

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Want to learn English easily? Practice for free with an AI teacher: https://adaanytime.com/eidelman Pinkertonism! There was such a concept in the 20th century, denoting a low-grade detective story. It is this concept that better than others describes the atmosphere in which the Cheka, the all-powerful secret service of the Soviet government, was formed. Masters of provocation? Knights of the cloak and dagger? Cold mind, hot heart and clean hands? The Chekists have always been shrouded in myths. Some of them are true, and some serve as an operational legend. BOOKS: • A. I. Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago. • G. Z. Yoffe. "Trust". Legends and facts. • A. Rabinovich. Moisei Uritsky: Robespierre of revolutionary Petrograd? • O. A. Shishkin. Battle for the Himalayas. NKVD: magic and espionage. ???? MY FIRST ONLINE COURSE History of ancient civilizations through iconic architectural monuments (classes start in January '25). Buy for yourself or as a gift: https://tinyurl.com/54t6a57s ???? LIVE PERFORMANCES Lecture "Freedom and Dictatorship in the Modern World" • Denver - March 5 • Palo Alto - March 7 • Los Angeles - March 9 • Seattle - March 11 • Washington - May 15 • Chicago - May 18 • Boston - May 21 Info and tickets: https://eidelman.ru SUPPORT THE CHANNEL • For foreign cards - / eidelman • For Russian cards - https://boosty.to/eidelman/ • Support the release of new history lessons by becoming a sponsor on YouTube - / @tamaraeidelmanhistory Using cryptocurrency: BTC: bc1qepf70kndy4ce6yxg6vxh9j98utx690w529fl9s ETH: 0x0Ebc2cCcD4Fd705CfFC5F25B271871df71c8332B USDT: 0x8d0B26D5f58e4a1B2Cc702C431CB7B444F9452F6 (ERC20 network) USDT: TC5eXDPz8TuXPiHLDLbGkmN2rnQkg3Qe5W (TRC20 network) FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL NETWORKS Instagram — / tamaraeidelman Telegram channel — https://t.me/eidelman * Facebook — / eidelmantn Twitter — / tamaraeidelman TikTok — / tamaraeidelmanhistory Text version — https://tamaraeidelman.com/ #history #eidelman #chekists 00:00:00 Introduction. Lecture Topic 00:01:00 Advertisement 00:03:22 Why Did the Authorities Need the Chekists? Accounting and Control or Suppression and Extermination? 00:16:14 The Rights of the First Chekists: Separation of Powers – “To the Trash” 00:20:52 Heroes or Executioners. Were There Flashes of Humanity Amidst the Bloody Lawlessness? 00:29:57 The Civil War of 1917. Land to the People, but Bread to the Authorities 00:33:22 Latvian Riflemen Drench the Failed Socialist Revolutionary Uprising in Blood 00:38:23 Lecture Tour Announcement 00:39:00 How British Intelligence Tried to Overthrow the Bolsheviks. The Lockhart Affair 00:48:02 Who Killed Uritsky and Why? The Beginning of the Red Terror 00:57:30 Boris Savenkov's Mysterious Jump from the Lubyanka Window 01:06:40 The Cheka Against the Intelligentsia. Why Was Nikolai Gumilev Shot? 01:10:35 Solovetsky Islands. "Not a Single Shot, Other Than at the Prisoners!" 01:18:17 Operation "Trust" - a Dark and Brilliant Game of the Cheka 01:31:47 Roerich - a Chekist Agent? In Search of the Red Shambhala and an Attempt to Arm The Occult

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