It was created on December 20, 1917, after a decree issued by Vladimir Lenin, and was subsequently led by aristocrat-turned-communist Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Belenky ( standing ), Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, 1921

Felix Dzerzhinsky ( the Iron Felix ) was appointed as Director and invited the participation of the following individuals: V. K. Averin, V. N. Vasilevsky, D. G. Yevseyev, N. A. Zhydelev, I. K. Ksenofontov, G. K. Ordjonikidze, Ya.

Image: Bukharin Dzerjinsky. jpg | Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, as the Sword of Revolution, 1925

Julian Semyonov was an influential spy novelist, writing in the Eastern Bloc, whose range of novels and novel series featured a White Russian spy in the USSR ; Max Otto von Stierlitz, a Soviet mole in the Nazi High Command, and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka.

* 1877 – Felix Dzerzhinsky, Polish-Russian revolutionary and statesman ( d. 1926 )

They also note that Lenin put a ban on factions within the Russian Communist Party and introduced the one-party state in 1921-a move that enabled Stalin to get rid of his rivals easily after Lenin's death, and cite Felix Dzerzhinsky, who, during the Bolshevik struggle against opponents in the Russian Civil War, exclaimed " We stand for organised terror – this should be frankly stated ".

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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky ( Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński, Russian: Фе ́ ликс Эдму ́ ндович Дзержи ́ нский ; 20 July 1926 ) was a Soviet statesman and a prominent member of Polish and Russian revolutionary movements.

Felix Dzerzhinsky was born into a purported Polish szlachta ( noble ) family of the Sulima coat of arms on 11 September 1877 at the family estate Dzerzhinovo farmstead, away from Ivyanets.

As an organizer of a shoemaker's strike, Dzerzhinsky was arrested for " criminal agitation among the Kovno workers " and the police files from this time state that: " Felix Dzerzhinsky, considering his views, convictions and personal character, will be very dangerous in the future, capable of any crime.

Felix Dzerzhinsky in 1919

Felix Dzerzhinsky was freed from Butyrka after the February Revolution of 1917.

In Petrograd, Dzerzhinsky participated in the crucial session of the Central Committee in October and he strongly endorsed Lenin's demands for the immediate preparation of a rebellion, after which Felix Dzerzhinsky had an active role with the Military Revolutionary Committee during the October Revolution.

Vladimir Lenin regarded Felix Dzerzhinsky as a revolutionary hero and appointed him to organize a force to combat internal threats.

Felix Dzerzhinsky at the front with Timofei Sapronov behind him and Lev Kamenev on the left

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Felix Dzerzhinsky at the front with Timofei Sapronov behind him and Lev Kamenev on the left

Realizing that it was left with no capable security force, the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR created a secret political police, the Cheka, led by Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Picture of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky | Dzerzhinsky during a parade in 1936.

After graduation, Polk traveled to Nashville to study law under renowned Nashville trial attorney Felix Grundy.

Similarly, in his study of the witenagemots, Felix Liebermann stated that " its functions and power differ .. considerably at various times.

His grandmother, Fanny Wittgenstein, was a first cousin of the violinist Joseph Joachim, whom she adopted and took to Leipzig to study with Felix Mendelssohn.

The first systematic study was given by Walther von Dyck, student of Felix Klein, in the early 1880s, laying the foundations for combinatorial group theory.

Busoni had a brief period of study in Graz with Wilhelm Mayer ( who used the pseudonym of W. A. Rémy and also taught Felix Weingartner ) and was also helped by Wilhelm Kienzl, who enabled him to conduct a performance of his own composition ' Stabat Mater ' when he was twelve years old, before leaving for Leipzig in 1886 where he studied with Carl Reinecke ( a former pupil of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann ).

Miescher originally wanted to study lymphocytes but was encouraged by Felix Hoppe-Seyler to study leucocytes.

Chisholm was still interested in continuing her studies and since women were not yet admitted to graduate schools in England she went to the University of Göttingen in Germany to study with Felix Klein.

Several major strands of more abstract mathematics ( including invariant theory, the Italian school of algebraic geometry, and Felix Klein's Erlangen programme leading to the study of the classical groups ) built on projective geometry.

* A LaserDisc player appears briefly in the 1989 Bond film, Licence to Kill in Felix Leiter's study as well as in a number of other scenes.

He was taken by his cousin, Fanny Wittgenstein to live and study in Leipzig, where he became a protégé of Felix Mendelssohn.

However, he finally entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1883 to study mathematics, receiving his doctorate in 1887 following a period of study at Göttingen, Germany with Felix Klein and Hermann Amandus Schwarz.

It was in this study group that Grebel met and became close friends with Felix Manz.

The Polish fraternities were all eventually disbanded by the German professor Felix Dahn, and in 1913 Prussian authorities established a numerus clausus law that limited the number of Jews from non-German Eastern Europe ( so called Ostjuden ) that could study in Germany to at most 900.

Finally Felix Klein's " Erlangen program " identified the underlying theme of all of these geometries, defining each of them as the study of properties invariant under a given group of symmetries.

In 1922, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter undertook a detailed quantitative study of crime reporting in Cleveland newspapers for the month of January 1919, using column inch counts.

Schubert persuaded Hurwitz's father to allow him to go to university, and arranged for Hurwitz to study with Felix Klein at Munich.

The foundations of combinatorial group theory were laid by Walther von Dyck, student of Felix Klein, in the early 1880s, who gave the first systematic study of groups by generators and relations.

In 1990, he had enormous success in Felix Mitterer's play for one person, Siberia ( televised in 1991 ), a study in ageism about an old man who has been abandoned by his family in a retirement home and his struggle for dignity.

Also in 1987, Felix went to Alabama State University to study media and communication.

Inspired by conversations by Felix Pirani, Hermann Bondi took up the study of gravitational radiation, in particular the question of quantifying the energy and momentum carried off ' to infinity ' by a radiating system.