Word: cheka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came of a poor peasant family in the Sukhum region. At 18, he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic (Bolshevik) Party. He worked underground, was jailed by the post-Czarist government of Azerbaijan, released on the plea of Russian Ambassador Kirov, after which he joined the Cheka (secret police) and took an active part in overthrowing the governments of the Transcaucasian republics and their forcible incorporation in the Soviet Union...
...power in his hands; and I am not sure that he always knows how to use that power with sufficient caution . . . [Trotsky displays] too far-reaching a self-confidence and a disposition to be too much attracted by the purely administrative side of affairs." But after a word with Cheka Boss Dzerzhinsky about the affairs of Rabkrin and Orgburo, Lenin added a postscript: "Stalin . . . becomes unbearable in the office of General Secretary ... I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin . . . and appoint another man . . . more patient, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades, less...