{{History of State Security of Ukraine
All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission ( uk, italic=yes, Всеукраїнська надзвичайна комісія, ВУНК; russian: italic=yes, Всеукраинская чрезвычайная комиссия, ВУЧК) was a Soviet secret police and an affiliation of the Russian
Cheka
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission ( rus, Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия, r=Vserossiyskaya chrezvychaynaya komissiya, p=fsʲɪrɐˈsʲijskəjə tɕrʲɪzvɨˈtɕæjnəjə kɐˈmʲisʲɪjə), abbreviated ...
. It was also known as ''VUChK'' to distinguish it from its Russian version - ''VChK''. As its parent organization, VUChK was a Bolshevik penal agency that was effectively used to establish ''" Dictatorship of the proletariat"'' and was closely associated with the
Red Terror
The Red Terror (russian: Красный террор, krasnyj terror) in Soviet Russia was a campaign of political repression and executions carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. It started in lat ...
.
The commission was created on December 3, 1918, in
Kursk
Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...
and was subordinated to the
Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine
The Provisional Workers-Peasants Government of Ukraine (russian: Временное рабоче-крестьянское правительство Украины, uk, Тимчасовий Робітничо-Селянський Уряд Укра ...
. To accomplish its task under VUChK and local extraordinary commissions were created military formations. Until 1920 it was controlled by the Narkom of Justice and the Supreme Socialist Inspection, after 1920 by the Narkom of Workers Peasants Inspection ( Rabkrin).
On March 22, 1922, the commission was reformed into the State Political Administration (DPU) by a resolution of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee.Resolution of the All Ukrainian Central Executive Committee 1922-03-22
Chairmen
* December 1918 – March 1919 Isaak Shvarts (appointed from Moscow)
* April 1919 – September 1919 Martin Latsis
* 1921 – March 1922
Vasiliy Mantsev Vasiliy Nikolaevich Mantsev ( Russian: Василий Николаевич Манцев; 1889 – 19 August 1938) was a Russian revolutionary and high-ranking official of the Cheka.
Early career
Mantsev was born in Moscow into a large family of ...
Jurist Encyclopedia (Ukraine)
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Un ...