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Yakov Peters

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Yakov Khristoforovich Peters (Jēkabs Peterss, Я́ков Христофо́рович Пе́терс, Jacob Peters, Jan Peters; – 25 April 1938) was a Latvian Communist revolutionary who played a part in the establishment of the Soviet Union. [1]

23 relations: Cheka, Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Fanny Kaplan, Georges Agabekov, History of Latvia, James Melville (politician), Jan Peters, Jēkabs, Latvian Operation of the NKVD, Latvian Riflemen, Left SR uprising, List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men), List of Latvians, List of Wichita State University people, NKVD troika, Peter the Painter, Peters (surname), Roman Gul, Siege of Sidney Street, Torokul Dzhanuzakov, Vasiliy Averin, Yakov, 26 Baku Commissars.

Cheka

All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Всероссийская Чрезвычайная Комиссия), abbreviated as VChK (ВЧК, Ve-Che-Ka) and commonly known as Cheka, (from the initialism ChK) was the first of a succession of Soviet secret police organizations.

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Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies

There was a succession of Soviet secret police agencies over time.

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Fanny Kaplan

Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan (Фа́нни Ефи́мовна Капла́н; real name Feiga Haimovna Roytblat, Фейга Хаимовна Ройтблат; February 10, 1890 – September 3, 1918) was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party who allegedly tried to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.

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Georges Agabekov

Georges Agabekov (original family name Arutyunov; Георгий Серге́евич Агабеков, transliteration Grigoriĭ Sergeevich Agabekov) (1896–1937) was a Soviet Red Army soldier, Chekist, OGPU agent, and Chief of OGPU Eastern Section (1928–1929).

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History of Latvia

The history of Latvia began around 9000 BC with the end of the last glacial period in northern Europe.

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James Melville (politician)

Sir James Benjamin Melville KC (20 April 1885 – 1 May 1931) was a British Labour Party politician and government minister, and earlier a successful barrister, who died aged 46, five months before Labour's major defeat in the 1931 general election.

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Jan Peters

Jan Peters may refer to.

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Jēkabs

Jēkabs is a Latvian masculine given name; it translates in English Jacob and James and may refer to.

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Latvian Operation of the NKVD

The so-called Latvian Operation (Латышская операция) of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) was a mass arrest and execution of persons of Latvian origin in the Soviet Union during the period of Great Purge (1937–1938).

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Latvian Riflemen

Latvian riflemen (Latviešu strēlnieki, Латышские стрелки) were originally a military formation of the Imperial Russian Army assembled starting 1915 in Latvia in order to defend Baltic territories against Germans in World War I. Initially the battalions were formed by volunteers, and from 1916 by conscription among the Latvian population.

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Left SR uprising

The Left SR uprising or Left SR revolt was an uprising against the Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in July 1918.

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List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)

This is the complete list of men's Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming from 1930 to 2014.

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List of Latvians

This is a list of prominent Latvians with Wikipedia articles.

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List of Wichita State University people

The following is a list of notable people associated with Wichita State University, located in the American city of Wichita, Kansas.

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NKVD troika

NKVD troika or Special troika (особая тройка), in Soviet history, were The People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD which would later be the beginning of the KGB) of three persons who issued sentences to people after simplified, speedy investigations and without a public and fair trial.

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Peter the Painter

Peter the Painter, also known as Peter Piaktow (or Piatkov, Pjatkov, Piaktoff), was the leader of a gang of immigrant Latvian criminals in London in the early 20th century.

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Peters (surname)

Peters is a patronymic surname (Peter's son) of Dutch, English and Low German origin.

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Roman Gul

Roman Borisovich Gul (Russian: Рома́н Бори́сович Гуль; 13 August 1896 in Kiev – 30 June 1986 in New York City) was a Russian émigré writer, his political position was leftist-liberal, he was critical towards the conservative, tsarist White Movement.

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Siege of Sidney Street

The Siege of Sidney Street of January 1911, also known as the Battle of Stepney, was a gunfight in the East End of London between a combined police and army force and two Latvian revolutionaries.

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Torokul Dzhanuzakov

Torokul Dzhanuzakov (1893—1921) was a Soviet politician; the deputy chairman of the Central Electoral Committee of the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, chairman of the Commission for Refugees in 1916, one of the main organizers and leaders of the pan-Turk movement in Turkestan, a member of the secret political organization Turkestan National Union (TMB).

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Vasiliy Averin

Vasiliy Averin was a Russian revolutionary, chekist, a member of the Soviet government in Ukraine.

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Yakov

Yakov is a Russian or Hebrew variant of the given names Jacob and James.

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26 Baku Commissars

The 26 Baku Commissars were Bolshevik and Left Socialist Revolutionary (SR) members of the Baku Soviet Commune.

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Jacob Peters, Jēkabs Peterss.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Peters

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