Russian Revolution · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Red Terror and White Terror (1918)
On the Russian Revolution map as “Red Terror & White Terror”
Sep 1918 — After an attempt on Lenin’s life the Cheka is unleashed; the Whites answer in kind. Both sides institutionalize terror against class and political enemies. Named here as memory, not spectacle.
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- Site of memory
- Chapter
- Outbreak of the Russian Civil War (chapter 8 of Russian Revolution)
- Atlas
- The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924
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