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The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission 1917 by the Sovnarkom,[1] it came under the leadership of Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Polish aristocrat-turned-Bolshevik.[2][3] By late 1918, hundreds of Cheka committees had sprung up in the Russian SFSR at the oblast, guberniya, raion, uyezd, and volost levels.
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