This is a biography of Felix Dzerzhinsky, an outstanding figure in the Communist Party and die Soviet state, Lenin’s closest friend and staunch supporter, a fiery revolutionary and a true internationalist who was totally committed to the cause of socialism and communism in the Soviet Union. His entire life exemplified selfless service to die Party and die people.

Translated from the Russian by Natalia Betskaya
Designed by Alexander Anno

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Introduction

Contents 5

Chapter One Childhood and Youth. Early Career as a Revolutionary 10

Chapter Two Party Work on the Eve of and During the First Russian Revolution (1899-1907) 31

Chapter Three The Years of Reaction and the New Revolutionary Upsurge. Prison and Exile (1907-February 1917) 57

Chapter Four Fighting for the Victory of the Socialist Revolution (March-October 1917) 67

Chapter Five Protecting the Revolution 82

Chapter Six Work as the Vecheka Chairman During the Civil War and Foreign Armed Intervention 98

Chapter Seven At the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs 122

Chapter Eight At the Civil War Fronts 135

Chapter Nine Guarding the Security of the Soviet State 149

Chapter Ten The People’s Commissar for Transport 169

Chapter Eleven At the Helm of Socialist Industry 189

Chapter Twelve Dzerzhinsky: A Political Figure of Leninist Type 237

Conclusion

Notable Dates in Dzerzhinsky’s Life and Work. 1877-1926 243