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By contrast, the figure of victims quoted by White Russian General Denikin for the years 1918–19 is 1,700,000, which appears to be a considerable exaggeration. W.H.Chamberlain's rough estimate of fifty thousand executed by Cheka during the Civil War must be nearer the truth.
The poet was just one of many victims of the Red Terror, a state-sponsored wave of violence that was decreed in Russia on September 5, 1918, and lasted until 1922.
The poet was just one of many victims of the Red Terror, a state-sponsored wave of violence that was decreed in Russia on September 5, 1918, and lasted until 1922.