Chekan.

1921 Glasgow Herald 14 Oct. 9 The Che-ka..rallied round itself not only Communists, but criminals, both Russian and Internationalists.

1921 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 725/2 A nurse..gained a reprieve through consenting to act as spy for the Chay-Ka.

1922 Glasgow Herald 10 Mar. 5 This Government announces the trial before the Special Revolutionary Tribunal, that is to say, the Tcheka, of a number of our old comrades of the Central Committee of our party for fictitious charges of attempts upon the lives of the Bolshevist leaders.

1922 Glasgow Herald 15 Apr. 8 The Che-Ka, he tried to explain, was simply a modern edition of the Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution.

1925 G. Popoff Tcheka 230 On..December 21, 1917, the first meeting of the first Tcheka Council took place in the Smolny building.

1927 Blackwood's Mag. June 849/1 The ingenious wickedness of the Tcheka goes beyond all the previous experience of history.

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 77 The most lynx-eared of the fashionable cheka who are the self-appointed arbiters of vogue.

1938 Times 1 Jan. 11/5 A wide application of Chekist methods.

1949 I. Deutscher Stalin 191 The Cheka (the Extraordinary Commission), the forerunner of the O.G.P.U.

1953 J. Cary Except the Lord 216 Autocracy with a sword is followed by democracy with a cheka.

1925 G. Popoff Tcheka 230 Of the first Tchekists only a small number were Communists.

1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 122 The dark silhouette of the Tchekist, the ‘Aparat-chik’, or G.P.U. agent had replaced the once bright and lively symbols of the struggle for a happier world.