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From the instructions for workers of the Cheka May-June 1919
I. Use of executions
1. All former gendarmerie officers on a special list approved by the Cheka.
2. All suspects in the activities of gendarmerie and police officers, respectively, search.
3. All those who have weapons without permission, unless there are extenuating circumstances (for example, membership in a revolutionary Soviet party or workers' organization).
4. Everyone with found false documents, if they are suspected of counter-revolutionary activities. In doubtful cases, cases should be referred to the final consideration of the Cheka.
5. Exposure of dealings with a criminal purpose with Russian and foreign counter-revolutionaries and their organizations, both on the territory of Soviet Russia and outside it.
6. All active members of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party of the Center and the Right. (Note: active members are active members of leading organizations - all committees from central to local city and district; members of combat squads and who are in contact with them on party affairs; performing any assignments of combat squads; serving between individual organizations, etc. d.).
7. All active leaders in the c/revolutionary parties (the Cadets, Octobrists, etc.).
8. The case of executions is necessarily discussed in the presence of a representative of the Russian Committee of the Communist Party.
9. Execution is carried out only subject to the unanimous decision of three members of the Commission.
10. At the request of the representative of the Russian Committee of Communists or in case of disagreement among the members of the R.Ch.K. - the case is necessarily referred to the decision of the All-Russian Chechen Committee.
II. Arrest followed by imprisonment in a concentration camp
11. All those who call for and organize political strikes and other active actions to overthrow Soviet power, if they are not subjected to execution.
12. All former officers who are suspicious according to the search data and who do not have a specific occupation.
13. All known leaders of the bourgeois and landlord counter-revolution.
14. All members of the former patriotic and Black Hundred organizations.
15. Without exception, all members of the S.-R. center and rightists, popular socialists, Cadets and other counter-revolutionaries. As for the rank-and-file members of the party of the Social-Revolutionaries of the Center and the Right workers, they can be released on receipt that they condemn the terrorist policy of their central institutions and their point of view on the Anglo-French landing and, in general, the agreement with Anglo-French imperialism.
16. Active members of the Menshevik Party, according to the signs listed in the application to n. 6.
Mass searches and arrests among the bourgeoisie must be carried out, the arrested bourgeois must be declared hostages and imprisoned in a concentration camp, where forced labor must be organized for them. In order to terrorize the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie should also be evicted, giving the shortest possible time for departure (24-36 hours).
Archive of the KGB of the USSR. Fund 1.
Inventory 2. Case 4. 16. L. 64 - 65.
From a note from Comrade Lenin to Comrade Molotov (May 10, 1921)
Clause 3 - to instruct the Cheka to work out a systematic plan: a) for the summer and autumn of 1921;
b) for January (beginning in general) 1922 and report in 1-2 weeks to the Politburo.
An approximate plan of their (i.e. VChK) measures:
1. additional liquidation of s-r and strengthening of supervision;
2. the same Mensheviks;
3. purge of the party: down with unstable communists;
4. purge of Saratov and Samara province;
5. special forces;
6. cadets in the province;
7. purge of the apparatus of state power in the countryside, the report of the Cheka, NKVNUDEL, RABKRIN is needed.
Top secret. Only personally.
It must not be reprinted.
Burn after use.
Lenin to Krestinsky
...Secretly prepare terror: necessary - and urgently. And on Tuesday we will decide whether to issue it through the SNK or otherwise.
... Tell Teru to prepare everything for Baku to be burned completely in case of an invasion, and to announce it in print in Baku.
Central Party Archive (CPA)
Lenin to Trotsky (October 22, 1919)
It is devilishly important for us to put an end to Yudenich (namely, to put an end to it - to finish it off) ... If the offensive has begun, is it possible to mobilize another 20 thousand St. Petersburg workers plus 10 thousand bourgeois, put machine guns behind them, shoot several hundred and achieve a real mass pressure on Yudenich?
Lenin V.I. PSS. T. 51. S. 68.
Lenin to "Comrade Molotov for members of the Politburo" (August 19, 1922)
Precisely now, and only now, when people are being eaten in hungry areas and hundreds, if not thousands of corpses are lying on the roads, we can (and therefore must) carry out the seizure of church valuables with the most frenzied and merciless energy and without stopping at suppressing any kind of resistance.
CPA (declassified in 1990)
March 1919
Telegram
All Gubchek In view of the new wave of uprisings, which are the product of Menshevik and Left Socialist-Revolutionary agitation, establish the strictest supervision of these parties, take hostages from among them, honestly declare that they answer with their heads, not to believe the Left Socialist-Revolutionary renunciation.
Prev. Commission F. Dzerzhinsky
Head otd. G. Moroz
secretary of the Xenophons
Archive of the KGB of the USSR. Fund 1. Inventory 3. Case 1.
March 11, 1921
Cipher Bureau at the special department of the Cheka
Telegram
Yaroslavl, Saratov, Voronezh,
N.-Novgorod, Gomel, Orel, Kazan,
Kursk, Kaluga, Samara. Not later than March 15, expressly send the TOVChK lists of politically unreliable persons who are now actively campaigning or campaigning, indicating the last name, first name, patronymic, position, party affiliation or sympathizers of the party and which one, social status, educational qualification, nature of their speech and activities in this area and what is the influence on the working masses and the attitude of the latter towards them.
Deputy head of TOVCHK Gusakov
Archive of the KGB of the USSR. Fund 1. Inventory 5. No. 651.
March 11, 1921
(according to the Central Committee of the RCP (b)) The letter of the Central Committee of the RCP to all communists working in the army, obliging them to be informers of special departments, should be extended to communists working in transport. From the protocol No. 150 of the meeting of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) dated September 2, 1920.